Drudge as usual
HBO MOVIE SHOWS RADIO ‘AIR AMERICA’ CHAOS
**Exclusive**
HBO is set to air a behind the scenes look at the launching of liberal radio network AIR AMERICA.
The DRUDGE REPORT has obtained a director’s cut of LEFT OF THE DIAL, a grossly entertaining docu-drama of life on the other side of the AIR AMERICA microphone.
The doubts. The lies. The bounced checks. The heartbreak.
The viewer is taken upclose to witness the ugly business of media ambition.
The main character, Evan Cohen, founding chairman and main investor, is depicted as a complete fraud.
The documentary shows Cohen arriving in the middle of night at AIR AMERICA offices to sign over the company and disappear again, but not before lying about how many ads have been sold and how much money is the bank [zero].
Dead Air.
It shows how AIR AMERICA executives lied and lied again about not bouncing checks to their Chicago and Los Angeles affiliate owners. [The network was quickly thrown off the stations.]
The film captures AIR AMERICA staff first learning about the Chicago and LA nightmare by reading a DRUDGE REPORT exclusive on their computers.
It shows midday host Al Franken at a staff meeting being told there is no money left, hilariously, just moments after ranting about George Bush’s ethics.
The HBO crew is told to shut down their cameras — but they don’t — and the ‘We’re Broke!’ meeting is filmed raw.
LEFT OF THE DIAL shows an angry meeting of the writing staff being told how money was deducted from their checks to pay for health care — but the money was never paid to the HMO and they were never covered!
Host Janeane Garofalo looks suicidal in nearly ever scene which she appears.
“What am I going to do, just ramble on and on,” panics stand-up-comic-morning-drive-host Marc Maron, as he deals with the reality of becoming a talkshow host.
Note to self, some time before now and March 31 when it airs, call Direct TV and order HBO, you don’t want to miss this one.
Okay, let’s beat both these monkeys in one, breathtakingly awesome paragraph, where I just smack the living shit and beat the bejeezus out of you tiny little putzers…
FIRST:”Clive”
Piss off you, you ignorant prick. If you cannot offer solid argument, then why don’t you just crawl your ass back into a DU hellhole. YOU tossed numbers on the table. Show up, or shut the fuck up.
“pbrauer,”
BTW, those radio ratings that you can see posted at various web sites, such as Radio and Records (and occasionally by Drudge), have very little to do with the commercial success of a radio station. They are for ages 12+, but advertisers are interested in specific demographic data, such as 25-54 and 18-34. Radio stations must pay for this data and thus is not provided to the general public.
I have the breakdown numbers at my fingertips…every single way, they lose….
HOW MUCH MONEY YOU WILLING TO BET?
In other words, yackass, I got the book. Still wanna bet with me, schnook?
YOU Picked this fight, you useless morons.
FINISH IT.
MONEY UP, YOU CKICKEN PUNKS
I should let you know: I buy the Arbitron book as part of my regular job…I design ads (once in a while) and consult where to jamm dollars…
C’MON, YOU PUNKS, YOU PLAY WITH ME. i’LL RIP YOU A WHOLE NEW HOLE
useless…
I should let you know: I buy the Arbitron book as part of my regular job…I design ads (once in a while) and consult where to jamm dollars…
C’MON, YOU PUNKS, YOU PLAY WITH ME. i’LL RIP YOU A WHOLE NEW HOLE
Please tell me why you are so angry. I really couldn’t care less about what you buy or don’t buy. So please keep it in your pants. I am not here to argue numbers or make bets. I have a google news alert for “Air America” and a link to this site showed up last week. What I found was bunch of people believing Matt Drudge’ rhetoric. I had a huge chuckle posting my information.
As for ripping a new hole, this guy would probably take you on.
Now that we’ve all actually SEEN it, I view it as just another example the Left’s current delusional state.
The ending, trying to bookend the beginning montage of a country “owned” by conservative radio, showed a vehicle traveling coast-to-coast w/ Air America providing the soundtrack. Trouble is, unless that car was outfitted w/ XM, it’s a geographic impossibility. Outside of a few mini-stations in Texas and Colorado, all of AirAmerica’s stations are on the East Coast, West Coast, and the Rust Belt. In other words, “Blue” America. All they’re doing is preaching to the choir.