NYC Say Bye Bye to Air America
What? Can that be true? According to Michelle Malkin, Radio Equalizer and Media Week, Air America is losing its flagship station, WLIB, in New York City, on Aug. 31:
Air America Radio will lose its New York flagship station, WLIB-AM, on Aug. 31. While the left-leaning radio network’s original lease for the Inner City station ran out March 31, AAR managed to get an extension which only lasts until Aug. 31, according to an informed source.
Through an agreement with ICBC, WLIB will be operated as a joint venture and programmed by P1, a company run by former Clear Channel and Jacor Communications executive Randy Michaels. Michaels is expected to program a progressive-talk format, but replace AAR’s network programming with more local programming. A likely addition to the new lineup: Ed Schultz, the left-of-center talker syndicated by P1.“To be clear, Air America will not go silent on the New York City airwaves. We do not, however, comment on hypothetical speculation,” said an AAR spokesperson.
From Brian’s March 3, 2006 report:
In a development sure to rip the heart right out of the liberal radio network’s already ailing body, it appears extremely likely their leased New York City flagship station WLIB-AM will soon abandon Air America programming.
Even worse, litigation looks probable over the station’s lease.While the network’s last day on WLIB isn’t known for certain, an internal source providing backing documentation points to the end of March. At this time, Air America parent Piquant LLC has no firm back-up plan for where in the nation’s largest radio market its programming will now air.
Some inside the firm are already referring to WLIB in the past tense.
Without WLIB, Air America faces an immediate, crushing blow. Worth perhaps 100 small markets combined, an on-air presence in New York City is absolutely vital to the company’s survival. If an immediate and suitable replacement isn’t found, the consequences would be dire.
Will the Gloria Wise Boy’s and Girl’s club be paid back or will Al get his salary?
April 27, 2006 - 07:02 PM on April 27th, 2006
Airhead America losing people. That’s funny!
April 27, 2006 - 07:33 PM on April 27th, 2006
If it wasn’t for NPR, Liberalism wouldn’t have a radio voice. I say it’s time to stop subsidizing NPR. Let the radio voice of Liberalism fend for itself. If they can’t find enough whackjobs to support it, then let it disappear.
April 27, 2006 - 09:55 PM on April 27th, 2006
Air America lost it’s leased station here in Phoenix. The station owner tried for months to find a new station to take the Err America programming but after four months of losing money past the end of their lease, he switched the station to a Christian Radio programming format. Can you think of anything more humiliating to the hard core left than to have their propaganda radio station replaced by a Christian radio evangelist. It really didn’t help that the Err America talk show hosts were claiming to be number 3 in the market ( a blatant lie) when they weren’t rated in the top 40 in a town with 50+ stations. You should have heard the moonbats screaming and whining conspiracy on the #1 local radio station’s talk shows. I didn’t know whether to laugh at their idiocy or cry at their stupidity. Of course they not only claimed that it was in fact number 3 in the ratings but also that it had been pulled from the airwaves because of some vast right wing conspiracy involving the FCC. In the end, I decided to laugh at them.
April 27, 2006 - 10:13 PM on April 27th, 2006
You really think NRP is Liberal?
April 27, 2006 - 10:48 PM on April 27th, 2006
I think you made the right choice FAO (to laugh at them). Although the theory about a vast right-wing conspuracy involving the FCC does sound pretty compelling!
Did the Masons or the Illuminati figure in there anywhere?
April 28, 2006 - 07:00 AM on April 28th, 2006
Too bad but it looks like airhead america is going off for good and despite i heard that GEORGE SOROS was suppost be be financing it too bad but i hope that airhead SOROS gets the boot as well:razz:
April 28, 2006 - 07:43 AM on April 28th, 2006
If a communist, america-hating, bush bashing, terrorist-coddling, racist, hate-filled radio station can’t make it in NYC…….then where can they?
SF…
April 28, 2006 - 08:06 AM on April 28th, 2006
Interesting that the Savage Nation is far more popular in the SF Bay Area than Air Jizzeera.
Conclusion: The hard Left is still a minority anywhere, even in the SF Bay Area. But there are enough sheeple influenced by the MSM to still make Kalifornia a blue State.
April 28, 2006 - 08:32 AM on April 28th, 2006
Air America goes off the air in NYC; flagship st..
It took some time, but finally, the dreaded Air America Radio has now lost its flagship station in New York. At long last, Al Franken’s scandalous station is going under!
April 28, 2006 - 08:51 AM on April 28th, 2006
SF Dope Head, NPR is very liberal. If there were a real equal time law, all current programming would have to be suspended for 2 decades for the center and right to catch up.
April 28, 2006 - 09:12 AM on April 28th, 2006
Robert: WLIB was never a ‘big’ station. I am often in Red Bank NJ, about 15 miles from NYC, and I can’t get AA without loads of static.
It just goes to prove: even if they have a viable message, you can’t draw listeners (read:advertising dollars) if you don’t have talent.
April 28, 2006 - 09:47 AM on April 28th, 2006
Seriously, do any of you ever listen to NPR?
What are some examples of it being liberal?
April 28, 2006 - 10:02 AM on April 28th, 2006
10- source and source
Recently I had the idea of researching what the other side is doing, so I decided to search Google.com for the words “Liberal Democrat.” I found some very interesting things.
The first page of results contained mostly links for the Liberal Party in the UK and Europe ” nothing at all to do with either Liberals or Democrats in America. The paid ads dealt with topics like “Dating for Democrats” and “Anti-Bush Gear,” and of course the Leftist propaganda website MoveOn.org was prominently featured.
However, the most interesting aspect of this Google search was the paid ad for National Public Radio at the top of the page. The ad declared:
“Liberal Democrat. NPR.org. Objective, in-depth & informed political coverage & analysis.”
If you search Google for “Conservative Republican,” however, you will not find any ads for NPR. It is obvious what type of listener NPR really wants to reach. Their political content is clearly biased and leans strongly to the Left.
April 28, 2006 - 10:35 AM on April 28th, 2006
Peejz….you are ab-so-lut-ly AMAZING!! Many thanks.
April 28, 2006 - 10:37 AM on April 28th, 2006
I guess it’s just hard for me to see through your eyes this whole MSM paranoia thing you guys have.
I’m not a paranoid – freaked out person by nature, like most conservatives I talk with, and I just don’t see it.
I used to listen to NPR all the time when I had to drive to work back in Detroit, and I don’t think I ever picked up any liberal bias in their reporting.
Nice Townhall opinion piece you linked to Peejz, how about finding info on NPR that doesn’t come from the Pravda for the extreme wing Republican Party?
“According to a 2003 Washington Monthly story, about 20 million listeners tune into NPR each week. On average they are 50 years old and earn an annual income of $78,000. Its audience is predominantly white; only about 10% are either African American or Hispanic. Many of its listeners consider NPR to be at the apex of journalistic integrity, while critics argue that it is not fully representative of the nation’s diversity.”
and
“The media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) looked at on-air sources for four National Public Radio news shows in June 2003, and think tanks and regular commentators on NPR from May to August 2003. FAIR found: “government officials, professional experts and corporate representatives” represented the majority of sources; Republican sources outnumbered Democrats by more than 3 to 2; centrist think tanks predominated; and regular commentators were more diverse than in 1993.”
April 28, 2006 - 10:41 AM on April 28th, 2006
LOL…you use Google ads in your research?!?
Please….find some credible sources , maybe some media watch groups or something, that have examples of NPR bias.
Until you can back up your claims, your side is just overly paranoid about the most centrist radio news programing in the nation.
What is it like to be so afraid, so paranoid and feel so persecuted all the time? That can’t be good for anyones mental health…
April 28, 2006 - 11:00 AM on April 28th, 2006
Re: NPR
There are numerous examples of the left-wing bias of the network. Just listen to NPR’s Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr, denouncing the Supreme Court decision to stop the Florida recount as “judicial coup.” Or tune in to the Tavis Smiley show just days before the 2002 midterm election in which Clinton ” in a prerecorded message ” exhorted the party faithful to come out to vote. The bias is so pervasive that it doesn’t even stop with the news. On Prairie Home Companion’s annual joke show (broadcast on the day that the Columbia shuttle disintegrated over Texas), Garrison Keillor remarked that the Bush presidency necessitated all the moron jokes to be rewritten.
The progressive agenda is evident from the choice of topics (the flavor of the day is gay and lesbian lifestyle, but this may change at any minute) and the kind of people interviewed for a story. Often, the “experts” hail from the same activist groups who are pressing the issue. The choice of commentators is likewise revealing. One famous example is the hiring of Mumia Abu-Jamal, cop killer and death row inmate, as analyst for All Things Considered. Books picked for sympathetic book reviews are almost exclusively penned by writers from the left fringe of their profession; attacking Israel or slandering Bush is a sure ticket to get on Fresh Air.
More…
NPR’s Offers Puffy Platform for Bush-Bashing “Dreamz” Director
On Tuesday’s edition of “Fresh Air,” the daily one-hour interview show on National Public Radio, airing on hundreds of NPR affiliates across the country, host Terry Gross interviewed Paul Weitz, director of the new Bush-mocking movie “American Dreamz.” Gross helped Weitz to explain his point that “dreams are sometimes delusions,” like democracy in Iraq. Weitz expressed sorrow that John Kerry lost to Bush in 2004 because “he was able to look at both sides of an issue, which seems to be the hallmark of intelligence.”
come on SF… don’t be in denial.
April 28, 2006 - 11:01 AM on April 28th, 2006
” …Its audience is predominantly white…”
Then NPR must be: racist!
April 28, 2006 - 11:05 AM on April 28th, 2006
hahaha.. good one robert.
National Public Radio provided publicity to the leftist website Salon.com on three shows Thursday for their release of previously unseen (if not notably different) pictures of American abuses at Abu Ghraib. Nowhere in their three dollops of publicity did NPR label Salon as liberal or left-wing, or explain that they oppose President Bush and the war in Iraq. They did not mention how Salon compared Abu Ghraib’s humiliations of prisoners to the killings of civilians at My Lai during the Vietnam war, as former Time reporter and USA Today columnist Walter Shapiro argued in explaining why the leftist website published the new photos.
April 28, 2006 - 11:06 AM on April 28th, 2006
..must I continue, SF????
My Lai Vs. Pointing at ball bags.
April 28, 2006 - 11:10 AM on April 28th, 2006
SF Dope Head, ruler of Uranus, has declared everyone else to be paranoid. Maybe he ought to try making those declarations when he’s not staring into a mirror.
April 28, 2006 - 11:34 AM on April 28th, 2006
“hahaha.. good one robert.”
Not really. Faux News also has a predominately white audiance…not sure what your point is…
“Nowhere in their three dollops of publicity did NPR label Salon as liberal or left-wing, or explain that they oppose President Bush and the war in Iraq.”
Mike, was NPR supposed to identify Salon as a liberal blog? Do other news organizations identify the political leanings of their news media sources? If so, who?
Does Fox news say “the liberal newspaper NYT…” when quoting it as a news source?
I don’t think so.
My point? Who cares if NPR doesn’t call Salon liberal? That’s HARDLY an indicator of left-leanings on NPR…
try again…why do some on your side believe NPR is biased for the Left?
April 28, 2006 - 11:45 AM on April 28th, 2006
“…must I continue, SF????
My Lai Vs. Pointing at ball bags.”
Mike…try to imagine your brother, your mom, your dad, or your sister in those bags, in that prison. Then we’d see just how quick you’d be to make light of it.
Abu G. is when the US effort lost the war for the hearts and minds of the Iraqis, and disgusted moderate, peaceful Muslims worldwide.
You guys make fun of it, while at the same time ignoring just how important a milestone it was…:roll:
PCDick, I’m laughing at you and your ilks paranoid delusions on this whole MSM conspiracy…fringe wackos like you don’t like what you hear, so you pack up, go home, and make up your own news that your little group likes to hear. SO lame!
April 28, 2006 - 11:46 AM on April 28th, 2006
, nice try, but when NPR calls the WSJ or Fox Right wing, you lose.
You want to see the liberal bias of CBS? Play the introduction of the Senators for Clinton’s impeachment by CBS and Dan Blather. Not one Democrat was identified as liberal, but every Republican was identified as Conservative, if not Extreme Conservative, including Senators Snowe, Collins, and Chaffee.
April 28, 2006 - 11:53 AM on April 28th, 2006
you are the lame one. You are the fool giggling in the corner by yourself.
Oh, you don’t know what torture is. How about this? We take you out to Alcatraz for a couple of weeks. On some nights Kilo points at hour sack. On other nights I practice the hospitality of the Hanoi Hilton, Idi Amin’s interrogation rooms, or Usay and Qusay’s Olympic training room upon you. We’ll see how fast you learn what is and is not torture.
April 28, 2006 - 11:55 AM on April 28th, 2006
PCD- “but when NPR calls the WSJ or Fox Right wing, you lose.”
OK, but when does that happen? Do you have any sources to cite that NPR identifies the right-wing sources, but not the Left-wing?
Back up your mouth with some facts, then I might believe you.
The CBS thing? Can you find transcripts on that?
April 28, 2006 - 11:59 AM on April 28th, 2006
can’t you do anything for yourself? Scratch that question. You can’t and you never will.
April 28, 2006 - 12:05 PM on April 28th, 2006
SF….since you have never served in the military and been exposed to capture by the enemy, let me clue you in on something.
If I had been captured, and the extent of my “torture” was that someon but a hood over my head and pointed at my nut sack for some photos…
I’d consider myself damn lucky.
April 28, 2006 - 12:06 PM on April 28th, 2006
PCDick, “you don’t know what torture is”
Apparently you don’t understand politics very well. (!)
The more you defend and try to marginalize Abu G., the deeper your side digs it’s grave.
NEARLY THE ENTIRE WORLD understands and is disgusted by what everyone saw, the incident brought America to new lows of public perception, and harmed US interests worldwide, turned more moderate Muslims against the US at the time when we needed them the most…
You…just…don’t…get…it.
Keep it up though; I love how you guys dig your political graves deeper with your paranoia and loose-standards of excellence. You make it that much easier for my team to make it’s inevitable comeback…
April 28, 2006 - 12:08 PM on April 28th, 2006
“moderate muslims”
oxymoron of the millenium.
April 28, 2006 - 12:09 PM on April 28th, 2006
To SF liberal, starbucks running out of Mocha Latte constitutes “torture”
April 28, 2006 - 12:12 PM on April 28th, 2006
Airhead America ran out of steam!
April 28, 2006 - 12:28 PM on April 28th, 2006
“To SF liberal, starbucks running out of Mocha Latte constitutes “torture”"
Mike! You wound me! I thought you knew me better than that! I would go into a Starbucks if you paid me.
“”moderate muslimsâ€
oxymoron of the millenium.”
THAT is why you are on the fringe on this subject. Even your Republican leaders acknowledge the need to placate the moderate Muslims.
Are you Born Again or something? Is that why you can’t tolerate moderate Islam?
April 28, 2006 - 12:30 PM on April 28th, 2006
Dope Head, Where are you the majority? Win some elections before you so pontificate.
April 28, 2006 - 12:32 PM on April 28th, 2006
Which leaders are stating that we need to placate the muslim?
April 28, 2006 - 12:33 PM on April 28th, 2006
Here’s a starter for you, Dope Head.
edited for improper links
April 28, 2006 - 12:40 PM on April 28th, 2006
you know better than that..I’m an ATHEIST for crying out loud.
You would never go into a Starbucks either? Good, you just moved back up a few points.
Just stop callinbg Abu Gharaib “torture”…I don’t care what public opinion is..it was shaped by news outlets that have their own axe to grind..if you think making a human pyramid and pointing at hairy bean bags is torture..well…. that’s up to you…
April 28, 2006 - 12:44 PM on April 28th, 2006
NEARLY THE ENTIRE WORLD understands and is disgusted by what everyone saw, the incident brought America to new lows of public perception, and harmed US interests worldwide, turned more moderate Muslims against the US at the time when we needed them the most:
Yes, it sure did. And it did so because it was trumpeted, heralded, and misrepresented by Chapatraitor Ted Kennedy and other treasonous vermin like him.
The story wasn’t the result of brilliant investigative work by some Journalist. It wasn’t some dirt that the Bush Admin tried to sweep uner the rug. It was information brought to light by the Army itself, as a result of its own internal investigation. The system was working! In any war, in anything involving humans, you have abuses, problems. Mechanisms exist to address them, and this was being handled and addressed. The perps were charged, convicted and punished. The whole story should have been no more than a report about how these abuses occurred, but that the Army was handling it and in fact did. That’s it!
Instead, it purposely got totally blown out of proportion. The Democrites turned it into a de facto referendum on the troops, their commanders, Rumsfeld, Bush, the war, and finally, America itself. The Democrites were the ones that did it, and the Leftist hate-America crowd eagerly jumped on to the bandwagon. The Democrites did all this for purely political purposes, and this is why I despise, yes, hate the Democrite leadership. They did a tremendous amount of damage to America’s image internationally, when the truth of this story was far different from what was represented.
I’ll repeat it once more for the mentally ill Liberals so perhaps they can understand: The real, true story was that abuse had been uncovered, investigated, handled, and resolved. The system worked. That’s it, end of story.
April 28, 2006 - 12:48 PM on April 28th, 2006
“Dope Head, Where are you the majority?”
Come again?
“Win some elections before you so pontificate.”
Winning elections is just half of it. Your team is great at winning, but looking at your presidential and congressional approval ratings, their in the 20%-30% range.
“Which leaders are stating that we need to placate the muslim?”
Um, how about the leader of your party; the President of the United States to begin with.
How many times have you heard him call it a religion of peace, Peejz?
April 28, 2006 - 12:52 PM on April 28th, 2006
PCDick, “can’t you do anything for yourself?”
LOL…you want ME to look up your sources for verification?
Are you THAT lazy?
Because you don’t post sources for your wild claims, I have to assume that whatever you post is 100% BS. Until you can be a man and back it up.
(!)
“you know better than that..I’m an ATHEIST for crying out loud.”
Me too.
“You would never go into a Starbucks either? Good, you just moved back up a few points.”
April 28, 2006 - 12:53 PM on April 28th, 2006
36…well, he’s wrong.
It’s not a religion of peace, never has been, never will be…who are we kidding?
April 28, 2006 - 12:59 PM on April 28th, 2006
“if you think making a human pyramid and pointing at hairy bean bags is torture..well:. that’s up to you:”
Light physical, heavy mental. The end is the same. Humiliation.
Look at it this way, since you served your country:
How would YOU like to be captured by the enemy and put through all that? Would you accept it? Would you think it a game?
Would you tolerate your younger brother being put through that? Would you tolerate your sister being held in those conditions?
This isn’t bamboo up the finger nails, but it’s all in the same category. It’s just varying degrees of torture.
April 28, 2006 - 12:59 PM on April 28th, 2006
That whole religion of peace crap that Bush talks about is political correctness because if he didn’t do it, among other things the Democrites would turn that against him too.
April 28, 2006 - 01:02 PM on April 28th, 2006
To Liberals, just having their party out of control of the White House and Congress is constant torture.
April 28, 2006 - 01:04 PM on April 28th, 2006
I’d like to see an “Air America” watch posted somewhere. A big graphic of a thermometer, with the liquid level indicating how far Air Jizzeera is from shutting down. I’s guess it’s probably close.
And SF Liberal: I called AAR an evil, degenerate, amggot-infested enterprise because it stole $900k from a charity. Do you disgree? Do you think stealing from charity is ok?
April 28, 2006 - 01:05 PM on April 28th, 2006
Let’s see..my choice is humiliation or decapitation…I go with humiliation..but since this was not authorized by the government and was found to be rogue soldiers that have been punished, it really isn’t anything but another excuse for you!
April 28, 2006 - 01:08 PM on April 28th, 2006
Dope Head, take your own advice and stop digging.
April 28, 2006 - 01:10 PM on April 28th, 2006
actually, listining to Air America is closer to real “torture” than a little naked twister…
April 28, 2006 - 01:15 PM on April 28th, 2006
Oh, Dope Head, try having someone read to you Bernard Goldberg’s book, “Bias”. He also documents Dan Rather’s Liberal Bias.
April 28, 2006 - 01:22 PM on April 28th, 2006
you mean Dan “Full Power, Tall Tower” Rather?
Biased? Surely, you jest!
April 28, 2006 - 03:17 PM on April 28th, 2006
PCDick…
Bernard Goldberg has his own serious case of the bias:
“In “100 People Who Are Screwing Up America”, Goldberg ranks President Jimmy Carter (number 6) above the Unknown American Terrorist (number 23).”
My question to Bernard and to you “liberal bias” alarmists is: Why do you see the splinter that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the log that is in your own eye?
April 28, 2006 - 03:17 PM on April 28th, 2006
April 28, 2006 - 03:39 PM on April 28th, 2006
“Why do you see the splinter that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the log that is in your own eye?”
That’s a Biblical quotation, and as an Atheist, you’re not entitled to use it.
April 28, 2006 - 04:03 PM on April 28th, 2006
Nice dodge there Robert.
I can use whatever I want to make a point – just because I don’t believe in the crap, doesn’t mean I don’t think a lot of the writing is poetic.
Maybe that’s the difference between people like you and me.
Just because I don’t believe in something, doesn’t mean I instantly write it off as garbage.
April 28, 2006 - 05:17 PM on April 28th, 2006
Sf, because you the one that is so blind, but demands everyone else be as blind as you are.
June 14, 2006 - 05:03 PM on June 14th, 2006
Man, I never realized how scared repugs are of AAR. I guess it’s because they know that right wing radio started out with alot of help from rich backers and took a while to take hold. They fear that liberal talk is being born the same route. Actually, AAR is on 86 stations currently and many of them are 50,000 watt Clear Channel outlets. I don’t like alot of their A-List hosts but obviously their is a need for political balance on the airwaves.
The best AAR programming is on the lesser-known shows.
What other network would air the creative, revolutionary drug-induced hipster comedy of Marc Maron? What other network would carry the genius brain that is housed in Thom Hartmann’s body? Or have the guts to air the hate-spewing Mike Malloy. Like them or not, they sell to a growing market that no one else serves right now.
June 14, 2006 - 05:12 PM on June 14th, 2006
55, Nice name calling, flower. Too bad you can’t debate and you spew talking points mindlessly. AAR just got thrown out in Atlanta and will be off the air by August in NYC. AAR had to scam the Gloria Wise Boys & Girl’s club for hundreds of thousands of dollars. AAR didn’t pay the money back so Gloria Wise closed, leaving the kids on the street.
Yeah, tell us more lies about AAR otherwise known as ScareAmerica. I’ve got more, and the the Radio Equalizer airs AAR’s dirty laundry daily. The truth is out there, much to AAR’s hate.
June 14, 2006 - 07:54 PM on June 14th, 2006
What Flowerchild said has some — some — validity. Conservative Talk Radio did get started with financial backers, rich ones at that.
But then so did AAR.
The difference? Ratings. Assuming Flowerchild is correct on the assumption there’s a need for ‘balance’ (and compared to ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, CNN, NYT, et al that’s a stretch), it either comes down to lack of air talent OR lack of anyone wanting to listen to the message.
So take your pick: all this time and they can’t attract enough good talent to sustain their message, or no message is being put out that people want to hear.
It’s one or the other.
June 14, 2006 - 11:40 PM on June 14th, 2006
#55: “Actually, AAR is on 86 stations currently and many of them are 50,000 watt Clear Channel outlets.”
Uh yeah, right. Name ‘em. Out on the west coast, they are all crappy little local or regional stations, 5kw max.
They’ve even lost “WLIB”. Now that’s got to hurt; in the New York market, Liberal nirvana, even WLIB drops them?
Bwaaa ha ha ha ha!
June 15, 2006 - 07:14 AM on June 15th, 2006
I can’t even find them in Philly….. are they on? Does anyone care? If a liberal talks and no one is there to hear it, did they even say it?
SF? Help?