Air America

[Sasha3]

Found the station link after a struggle but can't find the web page to sign on to. Any help with this? Perhaps it isn't even up yet since all is so new. They don't even have an email address yet.

[Thomas Veil]

http://www.airamericaradio.com/

I didn't see any place to register, even though they talk about it in their FAQ.

[Sasha3]

Yeah. Weird eh? Well I gave a good five hour listen today and don't think I'll be returning there anyway as it reminds me to much of why I dislike the right wing programs so much. Not just for thier content, but the presentation with it's sneering condecension and laughter at the "rubes who really need to listen and learn". Then there are the comercials...the first six minutes of The O' Franken Factor hawked McDonalds and the girl scouts to name a few. Anyway, a little of Al goes a long way. He is too much of a knee jerk cynic-ala Bill Maher-to be constantly interesting. I'll stick with The Pacifica Network, Harpers and online liberal publications when I feel the need to reinforce my liberal leanings.
To be fair I'll give them a few more shots. I had just hoped for something a lot more serious; not the frivolous Morning Sedition offering.

[SlyHunter]

PAPER: 'AIR AMERICA' MISSES PAYROLL; MORE TURBULENCE AT LIB TALK NET
Thu May 06 2004 23:59:55 ET

In yet another sign of trouble for Air America Radio, the liberal talk network entering its fifth chaotic week on the air, co-founder and chairman Evan Cohen resigned Thursday, as did vice-chairman and investor Rex Sorensen.

The CHICAGO TRIBUNE is planning to report in fresh editions: The company also failed to make its scheduled payroll, leaving its staff roughly 100 radio personalities, writers, and producers unpaid until Thursday.

The departures of Cohen, a former political operative from Guam who was among the network's initial investors, and Sorenson, an investor who owns radio stations in Guam, mark the second executive shake-up at the fledgling network in as many weeks.

http://drudgereport.com/flash5.htm

[Voltron]

http://boortz.com/images/20040602edsty-a-p.jpg

[blackfox]

must be getting crowded out by all those other "liberal" networks, eh Sly...

Anyway, don't particularily care for what I've heard so far...too reminiscent in style to the right-wing pundits...(as mentioned above)...still, I have not heard all of their shows...

[mactastic]

According to the latest Arbitron ratings extrapolations, The O'Franken Factor crushed Rush Limbaugh in New York in April...

If you were an average 18- to 34-year-old in New York in April, you were 7 times more likely to be listening to Al Franken than Rush Limbaugh according to extrapolation of Arbitron ratings data (login/pass="freeread"). Air America Radio's WLIB beat WABC by a smaller margin among 25-54 year-olds.
According to the Chicago Tribune, "WLIB won sevenfold with a 2.9 share to WABC's 0.4" among the former group and "WLIB garnered a 3.4 share to WABC's 3.1" among the latter group between the hours of 10 AM and 3 PM, which comprises the last 2 hours of Unfiltered and all of The O'Franken Factor on WLIB and local radio personality John Gambling, Paul Harvey and Rush Limbaugh on WABC. The O'Franken Factor and Rush Limbaugh go head-to-head from Noon until 3 PM Eastern time.

Right-wing-generated rumours of Air America's quick demise have clearly been greatly exaggerated. Despite what amounts to a small set of problems unsurprising for any new business venture, Air America Radio has things well under control. Perhaps the Bush administration could learn something applicable to its out-of-control occupation of Iraq from Progress Media.

[Voltron]

I thought the key demographic that they commonly quote was actually the 18-54 age group not the 18-34?

[mactastic]

Who's they?

[kuyu]

thanks for the quote mactastic
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"Perhaps the Bush administration could learn something applicable to its out-of-control occupation of Iraq from Progress Media."
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What media bias? :confused:

where did this come from? Was it an editorial, or a news column?

[Flowbee]

I thought the key demographic that they commonly quote was actually the 18-54 age group not the 18-34?

18-34 is a standard measurement. It's by no means the only one that's ever used, but is generally accepted as the 'young adult' range.

[mactastic]

It came from here. (http://web.morons.org/article.jsp?sectionid=6&id=5072)

The original story was a subscription-only deal so I didn't post that.

[kuyu]

It came from here. (http://web.morons.org/article.jsp?sectionid=6&id=5072)

The original story was a subscription-only deal so I didn't post that.

Well, it's an opinion piece that sites polls. That sort of bias is encouraged as far as I'm concerned. It's those pesky editorials posing as news that gets me.

Sorry, I jumped the gun there. Post on, mactastic. :)