Liberal talk radio hosts, including the new liberal talk network Air America Radio, are eating up the market share of conservative talkers quicker than Rush Limbaugh eats up Oxycontin.
Liberal talk radio hosts, including the new liberal talk network Air America Radio, are eating up the market share of conservative talkers quicker than Rush Limbaugh eats up Oxycontin.…
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76 - Gloria Wise
Can I get my $875,000 back? I just need to pay my bills and let some kids play basketball. That's all.
I guess filling your coffers and broadcasting the vicious and hurtful content you do means more than keeping kids off the street. Of course, the more kids that are on the streets are the more kids who can grow up and depend on welfare, thus strengthening the Left's strangle-hold on the inner-city. Remember, give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day... but teach a man to fish, he'll eat (and vote Republican) for the rest of his life.
p.s. I could fart into the microphone everyday at drive time and pull a 0.8; calm the hell down. Rush drops from a 4.6 to a 3.9, and you think it's a sign he's fading?! Air SCAmerica would KILL to pull a 3.9. And just look at where some of the "67" AAR stations are...
Anchorage, AK
Missoula, MT
Brainerd, MN
Binghamton, NY
Brattleboro, VT
Burlington, VT
Huntington, WV
Ithaca, NY
New Haven, CT
Petoskey, MI (There's a Petoskey, MI?)
Add 2 Boston Stations to that and yeah... you have a REAAAAAAL radio juggernaut on your hands.
Get over yourselves.
77 - Steve Jones
Air America seems to be getting its sea legs.
At the big ballyhood startup I thought it was awful-Limbaugh-left radio. But they seem to be learning how to do radio.
Unfortunately I live in the number 3 radio market and they are running on a 12 watt dawn-to-dusk coal-fired radio station.
Fortunately I have Air America screaming in loud and clear on my XM satellite radio.
Here's some advice to XM: Lose Alan Colmes.
My advice to Air America: Lose Mike Malloy and give Rachel Maddow more air time.
78 - Rita K
It is great to read about the stats on Right Wing talk radio vs Air America Radio. The (wrong) right would have us all believe the opposite---that Rush Limbaugh, Coulter, and all the other vicious diatribers are more popular than Air America and its variety of hosts. Thank you for the numbers that show the real story. I will use these in the future.
79 - Dave Nalle
Rita, did you miss that the numbers show Air America much less popular than right wing radio, and that just to get any positive news at all the author of this piece had to distort, misrepresent and present selective and incomplete data?
Dave
80 - Mike
Okay, so this is like the most recent update on ratings, right? Not that I don't like hearing good news about AAR, but is there some way to knock the July 2004 story out of the top spot on the search engine? Thanks for putting out a current picture of the ratings.
81 - B. Samuel Davis
What someone said about the need for AAR to be honest about its lack of success is quite true. Look, when AAR started it was all about America being split 50/50 between the left and right, so why shouldn't a liberal station do at least as well as conservative talk radio. Now it's a year and a half later, plenty of time even in radio, and you just gotta admit that by ANY standard, AAR is not coming close to challenging conservative talk radio's commanding market position, nor is it about to do so in the the near future. Not even close. Why? Lots of reasons, many of which are addressed here. I understand how many people really like AAR, and want it to succeed, but you just simply can't take much heart from their performance thus far - and you certainly cannot rationally claim that they have been a success. You j-u-s-t can't. Not with a straight face anyway. If you do make that claim then you are going to have no credibility with anyone. For example, you can't put out a press release claiming success where you take a station in a large market from a 0.3 to a 0.7 (or 0.8). And you sure as hell can't completely omit from your press release the ratings from your flagship New York station, which went from 1.2 playing island music pre AAR to a 1 share with AAR (and that's in blue state New York!). So...why not be honest about it, and admit that what's been tried hasn't succeeeded? (and maybe try something else?). B
82 - Professor N. Bates
Air America's primary on-air personality is a comedian...seriously. That's the left's best thinking when it comes to political discourse.
83 - Dave Nalle
Bates, the single best news commentator on TV is a comedian too - John Stewart. What's your point?
Dave
84 - billy
hey this post back again? there is new data they are up to .9 now in la. not huge but still growing each quarter. i think aar will be around for a long time, despite the misinformation out there.
85 - jd
A recent poll aired on abe radio tells us that 45% of liberals believe in ghosts which 23% of conservatives do the same.
After listening to Randi Rhodes, I understand why.
Jd
86 - johnson
I recently tuned into the middle of an Al Frankin rant about someone lying. On and On and On he went. Who is he talking about, I wondered? It was Bill O'Reilley. Again I wondered.."why?"
By the way, where is the democrat hate unit on Tom Delay these days? It seems they've moved on to the next Republican-we-love-to-hate du jour that can give them maximum traction in their never-ending quest to bring down the country.
87 - billy
no aar is just trying to bring republicans down (not america). they want to bring people like you down. it is necessary to bring them down before America can rise up to the stature it deserves to be on and that it had under President Clinton.
88 - Randy Johnson
After listening to The Randi Rhodes show I can see why AAR has virtually no ratings. Her 4 hour hate filled rant each day is enough to make me wonder how she is even on the radio. I'm not a fan of Limbaugh or conservative radio, but AAR's lineup of hatefull talk every day would wear anyone out fast
89 - Mike
RE: Post #68.
Jeff Gannon is a PROSTITUTE! I think that's the point. If his website had advertised his services as a gigolo to women I think he'd still be lampooned.
He's a mouthpiece and a plant for a party full of people who condemn homosexuality as unravelling our Christian society, yet he's an internet prostitute!
Perhaps the post should have said "going down like Jeff Gannon FOR a White House press pass". Who'd he have to "accommodate" for that pass? I think it was Karl.
I love it when the Right tries to sound outraged as if they repect the dignity of gay people.
90 - Eric Johnson
when you have no listeners, and you get one listener, you have a 100% increase in audience. When you have 50,000 listeners and get 25,000 more, you get a 50% jump. I would certainly hope that AAR would have an increase since they are relatively new. They will have a steady increase (i dont know how you can definatively say those listeners are coming from Rush's audience), but their business model is where the problem is. AAR acutally pays airwave stations to play their programming. That is what is attractive to these small stations they are eating up. They only make money on the national advertising they bring in.
AAR pays over a million dollars a year to broadcast in LA. Ask Rush how many stations he pays to air his broadcast. None. They pay him. If you think you need to pay stations to carry your programming, there is something wrong.
91 - Bob
"America ride up to it stature during the Clinton years" ??? What, seriously WHAT? Does that mean getting attacked and not doing anything, or maybe it means giving nuclear energy to N.Korea so they can build bombs. OH, I know the world liked us better, right? Yeah because we were weak on the military. And I dont need France's approval while they are kicking back millions to Saddam in oil for food. France thinks they are the smartest, with high unemployment and riots. What a JOKE.
Clinton rode the wave of Reagan and Bush Sr. in the economy then he blew it all up at the end of his term by raising taxes. Luckily Bush lowered taxes when he came in or we would be in a serious mess.
Clinton supporter: No, I just like that all of hollowood went to DC and stayed with clinton, it was sooooo cute. We had no worries then, we didnt care al quida was mounting an attack to bring down the towers, we were just into ourselfs. GET A GRIP.
92 - Freddy
No Bob. Clinton bombed the shit out of Osama. Bush just spent all his pre-9/11 time on vacation. What did he do to combat terrorism then? Cut the CIA's budget! And the tax thing? That surplus vame AFTER Clinton raised taxes on the top 1%, thus stabilizing the economy.
Another refugee from radicalsville.