Air America Radio is a failure.....GOOD!!!
POSTED BY: Skywalken
UPDATED: Saturday, May 21, 2005 09:18
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Air America's Year of Decline
The latest radio ratings are in, and they show continued bad news for Air America, the liberal talk radio network featuring Al Franken, Randi Rhodes, Janeane Garofolo, and others.
While it is difficult to pinpoint Air America's ratings nationally — it is on the air in about 50 stations across the country, and has been on some of them for just the last few months — it is possible to measure the network's performance in the nation's number one market, New York City. And in the new ratings, Air America hits an all-time low in a key demographic measurement.
The new Arbitron figures for Winter 2005, which covers January, February, and March, show that WLIB, the station which carries Air America in New York, won a 1.2-percent share of all listeners 12 years and older. That is down one tenth of one point from the station's 1.3 rating in Winter 2004, the last period when it aired its old format of Caribbean music and talk.
Air America debuted on March 31, 2004. In the network's first quarter on the air, Spring of 2004, which covered April, May, and June, Air America won a 1.3 percent share of the market audience. That number rose slightly to 1.4 percent in the Summer 2004 July/August/September period, and fell back to 1.2 percent in the Fall 2004 October/November/December period, where it remains today.
Those numbers are, again, for all listeners 12 years and older. Air America executives, however, often point to the network's performance among listeners 25 to 54 years of age, the preferred demographic target for radio advertisers. But in that area, too, Air America is struggling.
Between the hours of 10 A.M. and 3 P.M., for example, the daypart that includes Al Franken's program, Air America drew a 1.4-percent share of the New York audience aged 25 to 54 in Winter 2005. That number is the latest in a nearly year-long decline. In Spring of 2004, Air America's first quarter on the air, it drew a 2.2-percent share of the audience. That rose to 2.3 percent in the Summer of 2004, then fell to 1.6 percent in the Fall of 2004, and is now 1.4 percent — Air America's lowest-ever quarterly rating in that time and demographic slot.
The numbers are just as striking when narrowed to the specific period from noon to 3 P.M., when Franken's program airs on WLIB opposite Rush Limbaugh on WABC. Even though Franken once claimed to be beating the conservative host in New York, in the Winter 2005 figures, his program attracted a 1.9-percent share of the audience to Limbaugh's 3.2 percent in the 25 to 54 age group.
Franken's performance against Limbaugh in the most recent ratings is significantly lower than in Air America's first months. In Spring 2004, Air America's first quarter on the air, Franken scored a 2.6-percent share to Limbaugh's 3.2-percent share. In Summer 2004, he scored a 2.8-percent share to Limbaugh's 3.2 percent. But in Fall 2004, Franken dropped to a 1.8 percent share to Limbaugh's 4.1-percent share, all within the 25 to 54 age group.
That last number surprised some observers because it showed Air America faltering in October and November 2004, the period when the presidential election was reaching its finish and political passions were presumably at their highest. But even then, Air America's decline continued.
And now the Secret Service is investigating that silly network for threats one of its hosts made against our President's life.
Air America is worse than Al-Jazeera!
http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york200504261633.asp
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One word suits you starting this thread:
shaudenfreude
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Originally posted by Skywalken:
And now the Secret Service is investigating that silly network for threats one of its hosts made against our President's life.
Air America is worse than Al-Jazeera!
Conjecture. You provide an article for something that is just a sniping shot. Yet when you post something like this, nadda. Where's the proof of this? Where's your link to some "accredited" american "news" paper? Better yet, how about the BBC or some such?
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Air America Radio is a failure.....GOOD!!!
Yeah, God forbid there should be anybody on the radio giving their opinion.
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What? We're surprised?
This whole 'Air America' thing was not created as a vehicle for genuine opinion, but rather as an attack dog for the Left to ridicule the Right. It is intellectually dishonest. It's not a grassroots movement. It's a propaganda outlet. None of the people involved in this have any real interest in being radio talk show hosts. They’re spoiled Lefty celebrities who have used their financial weight to create an outlet for their hatred of other people’s opinions, not to express genuine opinions of their own. Even my more Left-wing friends recognize this as the travesty that it is.
It’s like a rich man opening up a shoe store for no other reason then to put the small guys out of business because he doesn’t like the kind of shoes they sell. For god sakes when will these whinny stuck-up celebrities grow up!
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Okay, here's two radio station voices:
a) "We need to be responsible and use our position to further the potential not just of America but the entire world. We must be environmentally conscious. We should not surrender our civil liberties for fear of terrorist attacks. We must help the poor and those in need of medical treatment."
b) "America is the best nation in the world! We are the freest country! The rest of the world suck! Anyone looking for a free handout should be shot! Might is Right! Those not like us are abominations and God tells us to destroy them!"
One of them will be successful, one of them won't because one of them makes good radio, one of them doesn't.
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Lets be honest folks, all media is propaganda.
The American propaganda system is not centrally programmed as it is in a totalitarian state. Instead it permeates the culture, the media, and the institutions. Individuals who point out unpleasant realities of current or past American behavior are often subjected to social pressures and treated as pariahs. They are disturbers of the dream.
The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.
We are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society.
Lastly, who isn't schadenfreude to the targets of their displeasure.
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Originally posted by SigmaNunki:
Conjecture. You provide an article for something that is just a sniping shot. Yet when you post something like this, nadda. Where's the proof of this? Where's your link to some "accredited" american "news" paper? Better yet, how about the BBC or some such?
Here's one:
Air America probed
after Bush 'gunshots'
Feds investigating apparent threat
broadcast on new radio network
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Air America's Randi Rhodes
Federal officials are reviewing a skit broadcast on the liberal Air America network that featured an apparent gunshot warning to President Bush.
The audio production came during the opening minutes of "The Randi Rhodes Show" Monday night, according to the Drudge Report.
The announcer said: "A spoiled child is telling us our Social Security isn't safe anymore, so he is going to fix it for us. Well, here's your answer, you ungrateful whelp: [audio sound of four gunshots being fired.] Just try it, you little bastard. [audio of gun being cocked]."
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I should really point out the crew of Serenity could probably be considered Liberal, and Joss Whedon himself is indeed a liberal, Kerry supporter.
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Your "secret service" cant be very good if everyone knows who its investigating.
There are aproximately 60 million people in the U.K.
Aproximately 59 million of them would like to kill G.W. Bush.
It will take your "secret service" quite a while to investigate them all but good luck with that anyway.
(Disclaimer: I nor any members of my family in any way intend harm towards the present or future Presidents of the United States of America).
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ImEarly makes a point that I was just about to. Or similar enough at least.
We have a "news" paper on the right citing "statistics" that are cooked that say Air America is falling down. The people on the left have there cooked "statistics" that say that they're doing fine and maybe even better than the right.
So, who's right, who's wrong; who can be trusted? Niether is the answer.
This entire article is BS. All it is doing is putting fuel in the flames of an already polarized situation. So, how is this helping at all?
For christs sake, what ever happened to at least trying to have objective journalism?!?!?!
The fact of the matter is that the right used a massive propaganda machine to "win" over people. Now the left is jumping on that bandwagon and the right is now calling them on it. WTF?!?! They're both starting to use the same techniques and saying the other side is being devious b/c they are using said techniques. Can we say hypocrite!
This whole state of affairs is very sad indeed. What makes it even sadder is that I really don't think that people see it at all. *sigh*
ImEarly wrote:
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Lastly, who isn't schadenfreude to the targets of their displeasure.
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For the vast majority of the time. Me. Everyone I know.
Also, your description of a "democratic society" is really all that democratic.
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