Oh No! Air America Goes Dark 6PM Tonight

[Annie]

Liberal talk-radio network Air America to cease operations - washingtonpost.com

Liberal talk-radio network Air America to cease operations
By Paul Farhi
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, January 21, 2010; 5:14 PM

Air America, the talk-radio network that helped boost the careers of liberals Al Franken and Rachel Maddow, said Thursday it was going out of business.

In a statement to employees of the New York-based network, Air America's chairman, Charlie Kireker, wrote: "It is with the greatest regret, on behalf of our Board, that we must announce that Air America Media is ceasing its live programming operations as of this afternoon, and that the Company will file soon under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code to carry out an orderly winding-down of the business.

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[Zander]

Make sure you tune in for the "best of Air America" to be aired between 5:59 and 6:00 PM!!!

 

[cbi0090]

Who???

 

[Liability]

Make sure you tune in for the "best of Air America" to be aired between 5:59 and 6:00 PM!!!

 

[California Girl]

Missing them already.

 

[Liability]

Missing them already.

I missed them every moment of their existence.

Happily!

 

[Mr Natural]

Who needs Air America when we have MSNBC, CNN, and the rest of the Liberal media?

 

[bodecea]

Just proves that the Left will not buy into what the Right laps up like honey water.

 

[California Girl]

Just proves that the Left will not buy into what the Right laps up like honey water.

Proves jack shit but you have at it anyway, bode.

 

[Liability]

Just proves that the Left will not buy into what the Right laps up like honey water.

MANY on the "left" listen avidly to conservative talk radio.

NOBODY listens to the whining spew of liberal talk radio.

 

[California Girl]

Who needs Air America when we have MSNBC, CNN, and the rest of the Liberal media?

Yep, ya do. MSNBC even sells Obama Memorabilia in their store... that's how balanced they are. You stick with them. You will learn nothing but you will sleep like a baby (wake up screaming)

 

[Oddball]

Just proves that the Left will not buy into what the Right laps up like honey water.

All it is proof of is that the nitwits at Airhead America have absolutely no idea how the radio business (I suspect any business at all) works.

 

[del]

Just proves that the Left will not buy into what the Right laps up like honey water.

seek professional help.

 

[Xenophon]

What, they can't find another daycare ceneter to fleece to stay open?

 

[Modbert]

Air America what?

 

[Zander]

Just proves that the Left will not buy into what the Right laps up like honey water.

Talk radio is a medium that works best when the hosts are challenged by callers that disagree with them. Conservative hosts take the liberal arguments that callers proffer and defeat them with logic and with facts. By contrast, liberal hosts cannot really defend their positions logically, because most of their positions are emotion based appeals with very little logic involved (for the record; not all liberal ideas are bad, just most of them). That is why liberal talk show hosts tend to insult their callers intelligence. They call anyone that disagrees with them "stupid". Listeners don't like that, so they stop tuning in. Rating go down. Advertisers leave.

That is why Air America failed.

 

[Annie]

Just proves that the Left will not buy into what the Right laps up like honey water.

Talk radio is a medium that works best when the hosts are challenged by callers that disagree with them. Conservative hosts take the liberal arguments that callers proffer and defeat them with logic and with facts. By contrast, liberal hosts cannot really defend their positions logically, because most of their positions are emotion based appeals with very little logic involved (for the record; not all liberal ideas are bad, just most of them). That is why liberal talk show hosts tend to insult their callers intelligence. They call anyone that disagrees with them "stupid". Listeners don't like that, so they stop tuning in. Rating go down. Advertisers leave.

That is why Air America failed.

Correct you are. Of course it is easier to dismantle 'feelings' with facts, than the other way around. "I care about poor ....." vs. "The costs have been ...., the results ....."

With that said, most 'talk radio' is too bombastic for me, liberal or conservative.

 

[Catbert]

The truth shall prevail. People are tired of eating their SOS.

 

[Modbert]

Talk radio is a medium that works best when the hosts are challenged by callers that disagree with them. Conservative hosts take the liberal arguments that callers proffer and defeat them with logic and with facts. By contrast, liberal hosts cannot really defend their positions logically, because most of their positions are emotion based appeals with very little logic involved (for the record; not all liberal ideas are bad, just most of them). That is why liberal talk show hosts tend to insult their callers intelligence. They call anyone that disagrees with them "stupid". Listeners don't like that, so they stop tuning in. Rating go down. Advertisers leave.

That is why Air America failed.

If you seriously think people like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity use things like logic and facts to defeat callers with ease, you're naive.

It's best known for a long time that Liberals get their news from the television and Conservatives get it from the radio. Fox News has changed that aspect quite a bit in recent years but radio is still popular.

It has nothing to do with arguments, it has to do with entertaining your callers and having a fanbase in the first place. Rush has it, Sean has it, etc and the other Conservative radio hosts usually have it because they have television shows or write articles already. They already have a following in place.

To be quite honest, both television and radio for news gathering will become almost completely irrelevant in ten years due to the internet. Newspapers have already been slaughtered by the Internet Star.

 

[Oddball]

Just proves that the Left will not buy into what the Right laps up like honey water.

Talk radio is a medium that works best when the hosts are challenged by callers that disagree with them. Conservative hosts take the liberal arguments that callers proffer and defeat them with logic and with facts. By contrast, liberal hosts cannot really defend their positions logically, because most of their positions are emotion based appeals with very little logic involved (for the record; not all liberal ideas are bad, just most of them). That is why liberal talk show hosts tend to insult their callers intelligence. They call anyone that disagrees with them "stupid". Listeners don't like that, so they stop tuning in. Rating go down. Advertisers leave.

That is why Air America failed.

There's that and the fact that Airhead America insisted on a top-down centralized model, that gave totally unproven "talent" (for lack of a better term) like Al Frankenstein and Janeane Garofalo national programs that couldn't hold an audience.

This is what I mean in that the people running the circus had NFI how the radio biz operates.