Air America.....Why can't Lib radio succeed?

[Army_of_One]

http://www.pardonmyenglish.com/archi...r_america.html

Excerpts from the article:

Here are the stats from summer to fall - these are the latest ratings. Franken's program in L.A. in the key demo of 25-54 persons is down 33 percent. In San Francisco, Franken's down 24 percent. In Boston he's down 42 percent. In Portland, Oregon he's down 18 percent. And in San Antonio, Texas they dropped the whole network, Air America, altogether. If you can't survive as a Lib talk station in San Fran...where can you survive???

} So what they're doing is Rob is writing the checks. He's very wealthy from Real Networks in Seattle. He is writing big fat checks to keep Air America on the air. The fact is Al Franken is paying his main producer, executive producer, Billy Kimball, $600,000 a year. They can't make money on their own to stay afloat. This is basically one guy paying the radio station to spread socialist...ahem..LIBeral ideology...problem is...no one is listening.

So it appears that at least the liberals are true to their principles: Not only do they believe in using welfare to pay "poor" people to be unproductive, they believe in welfare to pay crappy liberal radio networks with lousy, demanding prima donna "stars" who no one listens to to stay on the air simply because they believe that talk radio needs "balance". I hate to break this to Glaser, but even with all his money, he'll go broke if he continues to bankroll this crappy liberal network.

It's exactly as us conservatives have been saying all along: The radio talk show business is market driven and people don't like the crap that passes for liberal talk radio. The country is predominantly conservative, the three top national radio talk show hosts -- Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck -- are conservative and there are literally dozens of other successful nationally-syndicated conservative talk show hosts. Unlike Air America, these shows make money hand over fist. Air America has already gone down: If it weren’t for Glaser’s money, it would have gone under long ago. As soon as he wises up and pulls his funds, Air America will be forced to pull the plug – and long before 2008

Can someone help me with this...Do Libs not own radio's? Are they too busy working to tune in? I am just perrrrrrplexed. Since Air America is really the only "premier" Lib radio station and has no other comp. I would think it would be making all kinds of money and pulling all kinds of ratings.. WHAT"S the deal? Wordy maybe you can help me on this one...

Perpetuating the stereotype....(daily)

[lurker]

The onliest answer is that they are sick and tired of hearing it, too.

[agnostic]

do you have stats for radio in general? perhaps its just a trend towards apathy

[lurker]

Conservative Talk Radio is hot. You must mean the liperals are becoming apathetic.

[Highwayman]

Originally Posted by lurker

The onliest answer is that they are sick and tired of hearing it, too.

Really sad when you can’t peddle your propaganda to your own faithful. Maybe there just aren’t as many liberals out there as they would have us believe. Or in typical liberal fashion they expect someone else to pay the bills.

[agnostic]

[Army_of_One]

Originally Posted by agnostic

do you have stats for radio in general? perhaps its just a trend towards apathy

The market for Conservative talk radio grows daily. Limbaugh is as strong as ever. Hannity and O'reilly are very popular.

Maybe......the liberals are too busy standing in line for their gov't handouts to have time to listen to the radio..... OH GEEEEEEEZUZ...THAT was a stereotype.......