Air America Goes Belly Up!

[Yuki Sohma]

Air America just couldn't attrack the audience numbers they needed.

Right wingers need to be told what to think, who to hate, who to vote for, so talk radio really works for the audience's authoritarian needs. Progressives and moderates think for themselves and don't need that sort of stuff.

Gen_A.......very well said thanks for the insightful thought

 

[Homoaffectional]

Air America founders launch new liberal talk-radio network

Just in time for the election! I'm glad someone stepped up to the plate, and just in time... glad to see Mike's back... they're going to need him...

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The cofounders of Air America Radio have launched a new liberal talk network, the Phoenix-based Nova M Radio. The Air America affiliate in Phoenix was bought out by a religious broadcasting company in March, which led affiliate directors to seek alternative means to broadcasting their content. Nova M Radio officially formed in April as a local operation, and now its directors are setting their sights on the rest of the nation by recruiting big-name talent.

Mike Malloy, whose popular program on Air America ended in August, will debut the revamped The Mike Malloy Show on October 30 live from 9 p.m. to midnight Eastern time on all Nova M affiliates. The program will also stream live on the channel's Web site, www.novamradio.com.

Internationally renowned pollster John Zogby will also join the Nova M stable with his hour-long show The Pulse of the Nation, where he will poll a variety of crucial social, political, and cultural issues. In addition to polling, interviews with special guests and audience participation will round out the show's content.

Nova M CEO and chairman Michael "Dr. Mike" Newcomb will also host a daily chatfest from 9 a.m. until noon. Peter Collins, a veteran San Francisco–based radio personality, will host his own talk-radio show from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays.

In light of Air America's recent filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Nova M has also secured Howard Dean presidential campaign fund-raiser Joe Trippi and his consulting firm to help the new company establish a firm base of financial contributors and supporters.


Link.

 

[maltese]

Re: Air America founders launch new liberal talk-radio network

In light of Air America's recent filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Nova M has also secured Howard Dean presidential campaign fund-raiser Joe Trippi and his consulting firm to help the new company establish a firm base of financial contributors and supporters.

Seems to me that a plan for advertisers & sponsors, along with a business plan and attempt at commercial viability would be a better way to go.

But to each their own.

 

[seven_sins]

Air America is still on my XM "Radio ToGo." I enjoy their programming. I just wish that Jerry Springer were still there. Rachael Maddow is probably the most intelligent being I have heard on any radio.

I rely on NPR "Morning Edition" for all of my news. They do a superior job in my opinion.

 

[chance1]

The reality is no one gives a crap

Air America has no on-air talent, no listeners, no advertisers and now no financial backing

Never really got off the ground

 

[Homoaffectional]

Liberals are so gloomy and boring.

and right wingers are so nasty and lacking for...






what was that...















oh yeah... a conscience... morals... ethics. Those sort of things.


(Plus, they're pretty gloomy themselves. Oh, terrorists are going to blow us all up! But not because George Bush doesn't take advantage of what a terrorist attack does to his poll #'s... nosiree!)

 

[JayHawk]

When two-thirds of Americans believe Bush to be a lousy president and nearly sixty percent believe him to be a liar, there is no end to the ways of saying they disapprove of his incompetence. I suspect the national din arising from the ballot boxes in two weeks will drive home that point even more profoundly.



You mean like Rush "Blue Pills" Limbaugh's show, a circus of lies and distortions? The show where Rush calls Senator Clinton "Hitlery" and women in general are termed "Feminazis?" Oh, yeah that's a regular laugh riot.



Just not very good at imitating the raging lunatics and social misfits of right wing Hate Radio.

Yeah your right Alpo. Lets bring out Art Bell a true liberal voice of moderation. Maybe next we can drag out the hate everything church. You know "God Hates FAgs" those lunatics. Oh Oh isn't that the ACLU in their back pocket. Damn what a team.

 

[james1200]

how about NPR...has anyone mentioned them? i know they bore a lotta people but they're great and have a left slant without being disagreeable like the limbaugh's of the world. and how about the fact that while right wing radio is all over the place, i've heard that the listenership is overall quite small...limbaugh used to brag about 20 million listeners...yeah, right! stern used to always say that limbaugh's actual audience was about a million on 600 stations...that limbaugh bumped it way, way up cause he counted people that may have listened once in a rating period. and foxnews...their average rating during the day is 800,000 and at night a million...in a country of 300 million. let's not act like we've got a revoultion here.

 

[james1200]

alfie, i'm gonna ask again how a respectable kook of the right calls himself "boi"...i don't think i got an answer last time.

 

[james1200]

thanks ico7...i was hestiant about using howard stern as my source, LOL, even tho i think he's pretty damn honest. but thanks for the back up.

 

[smelter]

^regarding your Google, the only response I have is ..... ditto, IC07, ditto!

 

[chance1]

I think it's hilarious that many of you are trying to deny that Rush Limbaugh is successful - flat our hilarious. You may think he's a boob but he rules the airwaves. Try debating something else - cause that's a loser

As for Air America, perhaps they should recruit Keith O - he's a hero.

That might bring them back from bankruptcy - actually no, cause Keith O's audience, while good for MSNBC - is miniscule - despite the revererance afforded him on JUB

 

[Sausy]

I think it's hilarious that many of you are trying to deny that Rush Limbaugh is successful - flat our hilarious. You may think he's a boob but he rules the airwaves. Try debating something else - cause that's a loser

As for Air America, perhaps they should recruit Keith O - he's a hero.

That might bring them back from bankruptcy - actually no, cause Keith O's audience, while good for MSNBC - is miniscule - despite the revererance afforded him on JUB

Used to listen more to Rush,because he was entertaining,and often seared the liberal hysterics,though I would sometimes disagree with his philosophy,as he had little use for the center....spineless linguine he referred to moderates I believe a number of times.He has become pathetic now,and his problems have not given him pause to consider what others go through,haven't listened or really missed it in two years.Most of the liberals on Air America were not good entertainers.Some people here say liberals don't need Air America anyway,they already know how to think for themselves and don't tell others what to think or believe .Yea,right.They screwed up because they didn't know how to manage the business aspects of the station,and presented their message in a sanctimonious way that left entertainment the only thing not on the agenda.