Air America

[sduncan]

While, I do agree that Air America's hosts can be rather hateful, but they are no worse than Bortz, Hannity, Savage, and Krok. Two out of four are syndicated. Now, 1690 Air Atlanta tied with WGKA on the past twoArbitron ratings. Not bad considering there was no advertising and promotions. I know for a fact that thereis an audience for Air America in Atlanta. I agree there does need to be more local programing with a differentpoint of view like Ike Newkirk on am790.

 

[WhatDoIKnow]

While, I do agree that Air America's hosts can be rather hateful, but they are no worse than Bortz, Hannity, Savage, and Krok. Two out of four are syndicated. I agree there does need to be more local programing with a differentpoint of view like Ike Newkirk on am790.

I disagree with you about many of the Air America hosts . . . I find them to be rather caustic.As for Mr. Newkirk I do not see him progressing to a better timeslot. I do not think there is enough listenership to support his views. Listening to his program reminds me of folks meeting at the local breakfast restaurant. It is the same old same old with some callers calling more than once to say the same thing.

 

[sduncan]

Well, that is a good thingabout this country is that we can agree to disagree. I doagree that many(if not most) are caustic. But, you get the same amount from conservative talkas well. As for Mr. Newkirk, he has been doing his show for around 30 years. So, he isdoing something right.

 

[70sdj]

Yes he has kept himself in a time slot where there are NO listeners.

 

[Russy Pelican]

I disagree with you about many of the Air America hosts . . . I find them to be rather caustic.

Jerry Springer as caustic as, say, the Kimmer? Stupid, however, is very befitting of Ms. Garafalo - what a crappy radio show that is.

 

[RoddyFreeman]

Ike does have a 12% share of those no listeners.

 

[monkeymanmoi]

I consider myself a moderate as well, but mostly find the AA hosts (and Ike... good gawd what a goofy audience of callers) to be a bit too much on the left. I found it kind of funny that Jerry Springer seemed to be the most listenable host in that he wasn't 100% to one side. Malloy is a freakin' joke and I'll miss his show. I listened with complete amazement that someone is that far gone. He's like Savage, but on the other end. I find Al Franken a complete and utter bore. I wish the other parts of the day had stayed the same because I would always turn to AA when commercials were on the other stations. Now I'll just erase that preset. Music on the radio for me is dead. Unless it's Album 88. iPod and CDs are the only music I listen to in the car.

 

[News1360]

This will be no bigger waste than was on air at 1690, A syndicated bunch of nobody's who preach hate.. I would rather hear some local talk show hosts on liberal radio, to which I listen on a regular basis. I still say some broadcast corp,should fire up a Liberal, Left wing station with local atlanta hosts.. This I think would take off.. Air America was a waste itself, a rambling has been in Al Franken,Randi Rhodes, A super hate pastor herself, Lets have some real lib talk produced from Atlanta....

I notice AM 1160's change last week. It should be a relay for Bloomberg Radio for those who can't afford XM satellite radio (Like me). I hear it every morning from 6:30-8:00 a.m. Eastern. By the way, call letters are WWAM (I think). It's difficult to hear since the I.D. is heard every hour exactly at the same time the IRN newscasts starts. It may be another money-talk station. More later.

 

[News1360]

This will be no bigger waste than was on air at 1690, A syndicated bunch of nobody's who preach hate.. I would rather hear some local talk show hosts on liberal radio, to which I listen on a regular basis. I still say some broadcast corp,should fire up a Liberal, Left wing station with local atlanta hosts.. This I think would take off.. Air America was a waste itself, a rambling has been in Al Franken,Randi Rhodes, A super hate pastor herself, Lets have some real lib talk produced from Atlanta....

I agree these news-talk hosts and the network that "airs" them should be heard on
shortwave radio like Alex Jones (GCN) and John Studmiller (RBN) a place where they can spew their hate-filled sermons.

 

[fred flintstone]

Interesting, the most successful progressive talk stations are very selective and judicious in what programming they take from Air America Radio. The top performers have at least one local show and take Stephanie Miller (probably the best of the bunch in progressive talk) instead of Jerry Springer. Talk stations also take Ed Schultz live (3pm to 6pm Eastern) and bump Randi Rhodes (to 6pm to 10pm). Majority Report with Janeane Garofolo does not get cleared on very many stations, as a result. Many stations also pass on Mike Malloy to take other shows (Alan Colmes, Lionel, the-about-to-depart-Phil Hendrie) - including the one station AAR actually operates and controls (WLIB, New York).

 

[OgOgglby]

I think the Air America concept suffers from the same illness as the conservative shows - that logic be dammned, it's all about entertainment. Only idiots on either side would believe all that is said. In the effort to be entertaining, their points are taken to absurd extremes. Just yesterday, Rush agreed with a caller that said the torture of our troops was actually a GOOD thing, because it showed how barbaric the other side was. I'd like to see him say that to the families.

At least AA was something different, even if it was biased. Just like I have no problem with the Joel Jukebox. It's not the same 50 songs over and over.

 

[News1360]

Interesting, the most successful progressive talk stations are very selective and judicious in what programming they take from Air America Radio. The top performers have at least one local show and take Stephanie Miller (probably the best of the bunch in progressive talk) instead of Jerry Springer. Talk stations also take Ed Schultz live (3pm to 6pm Eastern) and bump Randi Rhodes (to 6pm to 10pm). Majority Report with Janeane Garofolo does not get cleared on very many stations, as a result. Many stations also pass on Mike Malloy to take other shows (Alan Colmes, Lionel, the-about-to-depart-Phil Hendrie) - including the one station AAR actually operates and controls (WLIB, New York).

WLIB. Is that Air America's flagship station in New York?

 

[Scribbler]

Interesting, the most successful progressive talk stations are very selective and judicious in what programming they take from Air America Radio. The top performers have at least one local show and take Stephanie Miller (probably the best of the bunch in progressive talk) instead of Jerry Springer. Talk stations also take Ed Schultz live (3pm to 6pm Eastern) and bump Randi Rhodes (to 6pm to 10pm).

What Fred Flintstone (aka "mwebster") always forgets to mention is that the most successful progressive talk station by far, KPOJ in Portland, OR, does NOT carry Stephanie Miller and carries Randi Rhodes in PM drive (as do almost all of the progressive talk stations in the west, in Chicago, in New York City, and in several other big markets in the midwest and east).

 

[OhioMediaWatch]

What Fred Flintstone (aka "mwebster") always forgets to mention is that the most successful progressive talk station by far, KPOJ in Portland, OR, does NOT carry Stephanie Miller and carries Randi Rhodes in PM drive (as do almost all of the progressive talk stations in the west, in Chicago, in New York City, and in several other big markets in the midwest and east).

I think our definition of "success" in the libtalk arena is a bit early. The format's still new.

KPOJ would likely be considered as "the most successful", indeed, but they are local in AM drive with Thom Hartmann. There's no room for Steph there. In fact, she'll compete with Thom starting Monday, with her new placement on CBS Radio talk KCMD/970 "Solid State Radio" (the former all-comedy "Johnson 970"). That's the home of local hot talker Rick Emerson, who I believe is PD, and where WW1's Tom Leykis ended up in the Portland market.

I think in general, stations which take Stephanie Miller over Jerry Springer are not only smart, but either are or will be more successful. I think Jerry...Jerry...Jerry may be limited to WCKY/Cincinnati and two or three other non-AAR stations now - WDTW/1310 in the Detroit market still carries him, and I think that Clear Channel talker in Sarasota still does.

But he's lost Cleveland (WTAM), Miami (WINZ), and San Antonio (KRPT), three of his largest Clear Channel markets. The latter, of course, was due to the format change away from libtalk.

-OMW

 

[ClarkKent]

Can someone tell me how the last few posts relate to ATLANTA radio? If it's a discussion about the progressive or liberal talk format, I think there's another board for that.

Thanks.

 

[OhioMediaWatch]

Can someone tell me how the last few posts relate to ATLANTA radio? If it's a discussion about the progressive or liberal talk format, I think there's another board for that.

My apologies on that...I haven't posted much here, and I apparently missed which board this was going to be posted on.

-OMW