I'm hoping someone makes a bitTorrent file of this one!!! If they do...sign me up! This should be great.

Something interesting here in the project overall, that the Left failed at Talk Radio, even when aided and helped by two standup comic entertainers. Something interesting in the stark realities revealed...

You got to admit that listening to Air America is great comedy. The production value that of a Junior High AV department and the hosts just aweful.

jeez, so they had some business problems! I really enjoy AAR, especially Franken and Rhodes, and I think they're doing a major service to the country.

Is that left wing turd bowl Air America still even going? I thought their ratings were so bad they folded everywhere. Shouldn't those moonbats just be a part of freaking history now???

If they're still around, someone should pull the plug on all their bullshit lies and stupid attempts at gutter humour.

In their defense (and this is hard for me) comedians or not, they have a right to say their piece, right or wrong. If I have this correct, it's the executives who are guilty of something or everything and should be held accountable. It's only "irony" that Al and Janeane harrangue the other side of the aisle of the complicity of republicans and big business in taking advantage of "the little guy". They've hurt themselves and their cause but don't appear to have broken any laws.

'I think they're doing a major service to the country.'

What service would that be? Some service not currently provided by the rest of the MSM?

" I think they're doing a major service to the country."

That's satire right?

The only "news" in this Drudge "exclusive" is that someone slipped him the tape. HBO is promoting the show on their site. Stories mentioning it have been bubbling around for weeks.

That said, it's hilarious that Air Idiot is drawing less listeners in NYC than the station broadcasting their lineup drew when it was a niche channel featuring Caribbean music and cricket scores, and they are now wholly beholden to Clear Channel to keep their programming on the air.

Ah, Florida...the problem is not about free speech, or for that matter bad business decisions.

The problem, for THEM, is that the Constitution DOES NOT provide them with an audience!

Everyone on this thread is saying how bad Err America's ratings are, but then, my question is, why are they still on the air? They're expanding their markets, they're on one of the satellite radio channels, and give no indication that they're going away any time soon.

So where is Err America getting money from? Is Sugar Daddy Soros just pumping in millions to run it at a loss? I mean, you have to pay those shrieking moonbats Franken, Rhodes and Garafolo, etc, plus all that kool-aid probably costs a lot, too.

It's wrong of me to enjoy the mortification of these people. Even though they're monumental frauds. Even though this free-lunch crowd is learning how things work in the world of grownups and bill-paying. Even though their smug, smarmy faces are smashed by reality. Even though the free market and the market place of ideas have coalesced into a glorious monument to reason and common sense. Yes, it's wrong of me to enjoy this, and I really should stop...very soon.

OregonMuse: Air Idiot recently received an infusion of $19 million from Democrat/liberal investors, and Clear Channel has been trying out their programming on stations they own that were performing poorly; they figured they'd give the "progressive" format a shot, since the stations were already tanking.

I've been whacking away at them pretty much from Day One.

Can we get Florida Judge Greer to take their case? They'd all be dead in a matter of days.

What all of you genius members of what Mark Maron so aptly refers to as the "Neo-con Death Cult" miss is that Air America keeps picking up new affiliates and sponsors and didn't disappear over night as you predicted. The public is starved for honesty, and they sure as hell don't get it from Rash Lymphnodes, Bill Oh Really, and the Sludge Report.

And what you FrankenFans miss, Roger, is that Clear Channel is now calling the shots, while a year ago, when Air Idiot was gearing up to hit the airwaves, CC was one of the charter members of their "Enemies of Democracy" as the promoters and enablers of the Vast Right Wing Conspiricy that was ramming Limbaugh, Hannity and the rest down America's throat.

"Everyone on this thread is saying how bad Err America's ratings are, but then, my question is, why are they still on the air?"

I am pretty sure that Air America has some liberal rich people backing.

If they had to depend on actual ad sells for their viewership, they would have a difficult time competing. The are sort of more like a liberal PBS without the government funding portion.

I think if somebody wants to give their cash to air america, that is their perogative, but I can't stomach the likes of Al Franken.

Thanks for the link, TC. I will bookmark it.

And it wouldn't surprise me if there's a niche market for the moonbat left that Err America is tapping into. After all, look at how well Michael Moore's books sell. But it would be more convincing if Err America could sell enough advertising to be self-sustaining rather than relying on cash infusions from liberal fatcats, which is apparently what they're doing now.

Host Janeane Garofalo looks suicidal in nearly ever scene which she appears.

Is it me or does Barfalo look like she's turned heroin addict? Watching (in snippets) of her appearances on MSNBC during the elections, she looked like she just rolled out of a cardboard housing project deep in the caverns of some subway. Pasty, greasy matted hair, rumpled clothes. Blech. And she used to be a cutey.

Anyway, there are enough capitalism-made rich capitalist haters to fund Fraken for the forseeable future. No doubt they'll go begging the lefty foundations soon, too.

Is it me or does Barfalo look like she's turned heroin addict?

Post 11/4, there a number of comments on DU to the effect of, "oh, why did we chose a tattooed, heroin, skank, to be our spokesperson?"

"And she used to be a cutey"

???? When was that?????

dont be absurd. the spokesman of the right is a fat uneducated hilbilly heroin addict / money launderer. probably a closeted gay too.

in 6 months rt wing radio lost 1/3 of its market share. im not sure what you are expecting of a new radio station, but in another year rt wing radio may be in the minority.

TC@LeatherPenguin pointed out something that pretty funny: the only reason Err America isn't pushing up daisies right now is that Clear Channel flipped a bunch of their AM underperformers to Err America and the ratings improved. Now, as the leftist moonbats keep howling, Clear Channel is supposedly a right-wing Tool of the Great Satan, a fascist corporation, kicks cute little puppies, etc., and yet they're helping to keep Err America on the air and spewing their sewage.

This is too funny. Cox and Forkum should have a field day with this.

Roger's comment "Neo-con Death Cult"? has he been watching the news?

billy writes: "in 6 months rt wing radio lost 1/3 of its market share."
Prove it, pal. I follow talk radio pretty closely, reading the trade magazines and the radio message boards, and your claim is the first I ever heard of such a thing. In NYC, after Air Idiot hit the airwaves and the Presidential campaign kicked into high gear, the lead right wing talk station, WABC, had their highest numbers in something like a decade, and became the highest ranked AM station in the city.

So, where'd you get that little factoid, Franken? His absolute cluelessness about radio ratings was displayed early in Air Idiot's infancy when he went on the air bragging his Arbitron ratings in the 25-54 demographic were beating Limbaugh's. Problem was, those were only trend numbers based on the initial month they were on the air, with all the accompanying media hoopla that preceded their debut. A couple months later, when the real numbers were released, Rush had smacked Franken like a red-headed stepchild. By the end of 2004, Limbaugh's number in that demo were climbing while Franken's were sliding down.

Yep, the original management or Air America was incompetent and lying. Once exposed, they were forced out.

New management has been in charge of Air America for a number of months now.

Air America is great and part of it is that they are honest about things and not rehearsed unlike Bush (town hall meetins a joke), Limbaugh and othe right wing nutwings (talking points). I like the non-rehearsed stuff and it adds to the icon as it grows. The productions are great nad have a freshness that the Goebelized right can't and will not be able to stay ahead of.

Hmmm...

Distortions and lies from Matt Drudge? Coincidence? No, the bitch just ain't right...

Frank C. got it right! And, being from Chicago and familiar with the episode here, it was a matter of the radio station's previous owner trying to extort more money out of AA. It was settled in court and in AA's favor, although we still have no station here. More to do with a competitive market and not an appropriate wattage station available.

Reading TC's ongoing obsession with AA, is like reading Republicans picking out the one helpful piece of data in a current Bush approval poll.

Air America was only on for 2 1/2 months in Chicago, but the first Arbitron book gave them a 3.3 share. TC leaves out the fact that AA is beating Rush in many markets, and the only reason the Conservative Clear Channel pick them up, should be obvious.

It's O'Reilly paying affiliates to keep his radio show on, and Hannity dissing the Freeper Brd just to scare up some more listeners.

From Billboard.
HBO to Air Docu on Air America: "Left of the Dial"
March 23, 2005
By Tony Sanders

Air America gets a one-year birthday present from HBO on March 31 when the cable network airs the documentary “Left of the Dial” by director Patrick Farrelly and producer Kate O'Callaghan. The film tracks most of the past year’s travails as the liberal network started, faltered and was yanked off the air in some major markets. A Drudge Report review of the documentary played up “The doubts. The lies. The bounced checks. The heartbreak.”

Air America Radio president Jon Sinton told Billboard Radio Monitor “This documentary is a sanctioned event. Matt Drudge, notwithstanding, we’ve signed off on it. The filmmakers had access to us and it truly is a story of birth, death and resurrection. It’s a very redemptive story. We’re not displeased with it at all.”

An HBO release says the documentary “reveals the nervous expectations of investors who staked their careers on the network,” including Evan Cohen, Air America’s former chairman, David Goodfriend, who becomes the network’s general counsel, and investor Doug Kreeger. Along with profiles of many of the networks personalities, descriptions of nervous debuts, shouting matches and other frenzied activity, HBO says the documentary closes late in 2004 when, “in December 2004, a new round of investors brings Air America a measure of financial stability.” HBO pegs the affiliate roster at 40 by year’s end.

As of March 23, Air America has added another 11 stations and now boasts 51 affiliates.

The film will debut on Thursday, March 31 at 8pm (ET), with other playdates on April 5, 11 and 14.

Well, interesting who has identified as fan of Air America, and who has not. I think this categorizes Air America pretty well.

Dead Air? Like it or not, Air America is slowly (in a year, perhaps not so slow?) gaining access to markets and to greater segments of the country. They're even in Dallas, Texas.

Clive,
As I asked "billy" earlier, back up your claims about ratings with facts. You tell me the edition of Arbitron's book where the numbers your citing exist; don't be another FrankenFan who cherry-picks attenuated demo numbers to show a success. And show me which markets AI is beating Limbaugh.

If you actually read the Air Idiot posts I've put up on my site, my argument with them was never about the politics, it was about the business. They went into radio thinking you could just throw money around and succeeed. Even now, with huge amounts of investor capital having been churned through their operation, and a level of free publicity delivered by all manner of fawning print and televised coverage, they are operating in the red, and a good percentage of their on-air adverts are PSAs that bring in no revenue.

They are, and unless they start shedding the losers that litter their lineup and replace them with radio pros, nothing more than a niche broadcaster. Ed Shultz, all by himself, is heard on 20 more stations than Air Idiot. As a counterweight to Limbaugh, Hannity et al, they aren't even in the arena, nevermind playing the same game.

Why are you people so threatened by people having views that disagree with yours? Are you so unsure of what you believe that you need everyone to march in lockstep?

I don't understand people wanting AA to fail, but they do need to go with radio pros. My question is whether this is going to be a medium that works for them. There's some potential audience liberal radio but I think the talk radio format may work a lot better for conservative radio. Like Ann Coulter said 'they've got a built in audience, people driving back and forth to work.'

If billy and clive want to believe that Err America is taking the country by storm, I think we should leave them to their delusions.

As has been pointed out here, regardless of politics, much of AA is just crappy radio. The only ass clown in the original AA lineup with any prior radio experience was Randi Rhodes. I guess now they have Ed Shultz on board, but listen to some of the other moonbats-in-residence, say, Al Franken, and it's just embarrassinlgy painful.