The Deflating of Air America

[KJCB]

Jones doesn't owe KTLK money.  AAR does.

Have you ever listened to KTLK?  They have the same advertisers as KFI which is the number one station in the market.  They are clearly doing combo selling for talk radio.

No doubt, most notably the "Traffic presented by Lexus dealers" every 15 minutes.  The only thing I haven't heard is Stephanie Miller screaming "Here's my quote, where's my Honda!?"

[evnlee]

Considering what a rough year it's been for many conservative talk radio stations (WGST, WRKO, etc.), I'd say any gloating over what may be Air America's fate is a case of whistling past the graveyard. Schadenfreude because that's all that's left.

Smedge, your talking about individual stations, not the corporate ownership.

While it's true those station you listed are in trouble, are you saying thier ownership will be arguing in front of a bankruptcy judge anytime soon? Didn't Clear Channel recently sell off stations/assets to remain competetive?


Err Amerika remains a textbook example of how NOT to do radio. That's why Jones, et al can't run away fast enough

[raccoonradio]

Let's look in at a former Air America station, WHJJ in Providence...land of Peter Griffin and Patrick
Kennedy...

Their ratings plummeted with the move to AAR, and when the plug was pulled on Franken the program
director said "The Air America experiment has been a failure". More recently they had Imus followed
by Survivor's Helen Glover (a conservative so I've been told), Howie Barte (liberal) and former R.I.
attorney general Arlene Violet (liberal).They had Rhodes for awhile then replaced her with...Michael
Savage. Then Jim Bohannon and Jerry Doyle (on the conservative side) overnight.

As of tomorrow: Imus, then Quinn and Rose (conservative via Pittsburgh)...Glover, then Sean Hannity
takes over the 3 pm slot (had been on WPRO but they picked up Glenn Beck), followed by conservatives
Mark Levin and Savage, then Bohannon and Doyle, etc.

The ratings moved slowly upward after the initial AAR purge.

And yes, Clear Channel = Cheap Channel. Who needs local shows when you can "turn on the bird"...

Meanwhile, north of Family Guy-land is Boston, where another Clear Channel operation, WXKS and WKOX,
are to Rumba in sometime after Dec 22. Ratings consistently low as Prog Talk but a) hardly any promotion, b) weak
signals, and c) no DAILY local show. Even Clear Channel's WHJJ had local content daily (and still will have one local talker)! Signal is due to
improve in August but too late...

Time will tell if Boston gets AAR and Jones shows again...Meanwhile, the liberal bastion of Boston has
no prog talk station while the huge city of Burlington, VT (all 33,000 souls) does have one (a daytimer
though...the owner flipped the fulltime station to sports awhile back)