||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Progressive News & Views (since 1982) ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| "Hank Roth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sez:
> I am certain that if Air America did not fill the void in those markets, > if there is proved demand ..."if"??!? You haven't bothered to look at the ratings for WLIB New York, or KLSD San Diego, or KPOJ Portland, or WXXM Madison. They've all had significant increases in their ratings in less than two years, especially in the demographics that are never attracted by all-fascists-all-the-time. If Air America is legitimately in money trouble (and I'd never trust rightist rags like the New York Post or Sun to provide honest evidence of such, as you seem to), it's because their sales office is impotent, as their audience development is already well ahead of any other talk radio operation that has started from scratch in the last 25 years... > It isn't just their management decisions which put them in trouble - as > bad as that was. It is also market share and perhaps their type of > programming and some of their talk show hosts. ...you obviously don't comprehend commercial radio, or you wouldn't be mouthing off so much about "market share." Talk radio is not like music radio, in that the format cannot be judged in short-term results. The average for full development of talk radio formats is just over five years. Air America hasn't even been on the air for two years, and its original managers were Republican operatives who did their damndest to see the company fail in its first month... > But I don't see how criticizing Air America for being stupid is > undemocratic or counter-productive. ...it most certainly is when your sources are the fascist blogosphere and Faux News wannabe nests like the New York Post and Sun. That's like Lenin and Trotsky basing Bolshevik policy on the scribblings of Rasputin... King Daevid MacKenzie, WLSU-FM 88.9 La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA heard occasionally at http://www.radio4all.net http://myspace/kingdaevid "You can live in your dreams, but only if you are worthy of them." HARLAN ELLISON ----- / o o \ ====OO=====OO========================= Hank Roth's Place - http://pnews.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on the InterNUT since 1982) ============================================ Fightback - notification news and views list Subscribe/Unsub at: http://pnews.org/dada/ ================================================ Fightback - (pnews "progressive news and views") OPEN discussion - subscribe or unsubscribe in subject line: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================
