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Greetings!
We have heard that the Air America Network did go to
their bankruptcy hearings in NYC last week - we are now only
waiting to hear about the new management.
We are also following various stories about AAR stations
changing from liberal talk format in Cincinnati, Washington,
DC and Boston- it’s a real mistake and I’m hoping AAR will
be able to quickly get back on its feet and begin to add
more stations to the network rather than loosing stations.
We still also continue to hear that Al Franken may not be
returning to host a daily AAR show in 2007, I think if
that’s true that decision will have more to do with him
announcing that he will run for Senate in MN than it does
AAR woes.
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Thanks , Nancy
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I still would highly recommend subscribing
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We wanted to alert you about two stations currently
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Air America, in the Throes of Victory?
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By Marc Fisher
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, December 10, 2006; N02
Rush Limbaugh and other conservative radio talk show
hosts have often noted that being on the outside,
rallying the audience to action, is good for
business. Being aligned with the party in power, not
so good.
If that's the case, the miserable condition of Air
America, the two-year-old effort to create a liberal
alternative to conservative talk radio, is likely to
get even worse, perhaps fatally so.
Air America has announced that it is negotiating
with potential buyers to avert a shutdown of the
network because of its heavy debts and losses.
But though the Democratic victories in November's
elections clearly help conservative talk, some radio
executives believe the results also can boost the
smaller but growing field of liberal talk.
"It gives the format a little more heft," says Bill
Hess, operations manager of Clear Channel Radio's AM
talk stations in Washington, conservative WTNT (570)
and liberal WWRC (1260). "It makes the hosts feel a
little more wind in their sails."
That bit of optimism seems pale compared with Hess's
analysis of what the election returns mean for
conservative radio: "It's great for them: It
galvanizes the hosts around an enemy."
Hess knows that Air America, which remains the
primary provider of liberal talk shows on WWRC and
many other stations, despite an increasing number of
programs produced outside the network, is in deep
trouble. WWRC is dropping Air America's morning
show, "The Young Turks," a rambling roundtable of
chatter with Cenk Uygur, Ben Mankiewicz and Jill
Pike that launched on Sirius Satellite Radio.
Tomorrow, WWRC will replace "The Young Turks" with
Bill Press, the former CNN "Crossfire" host whose
radio show also airs on Sirius.
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