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Howie Carr : Please Get Your Facts Right !

What is really getting stale is Raccoon's constant reminder that Air American went belly up 5 years ago. And that is some proof that Progressive talk radio is now and has always been a faliure. Never mind the fact that many of the former AA hosts are still syndicated by other networks. Hartman for example has over 2 million listeners a week.The faliure of AA was due to poor business management and not content.

I could spend the next three days listing Conservative talk hots and networks that have come and gone and lasted far less time than AA.

Jeff Santos leased 1510. If you want to call that having to pay to get liberal talk radio on the air fine. But how is the current Conservative Talk format on 1510 doing in the ratings these days. I would have more people listenting to me if I walked down to my local laundromat and starting talking loud for a hour.

I have no idea what your rambling comments about PHC has to do with this topic but that is to be expected.
 
john garrett said:
What is really getting stale is Raccoon's constant reminder that Air American went belly up 5 years ago. And that is some proof that Progressive talk radio is now and has always been a faliure. Never mind the fact that many of the former AA hosts are still syndicated by other networks. Hartman for example has over 2 million listeners a week.
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Thom Hartmann
The Lionel Show
Randi Rhodes,
Al Franken
Montel
Ron Reagan, Jr.
Richard Greene
Jon Elliot
Nicole Sander
JEanine Garafolo
David Bender
Robert F> Kennedy
Cenk Uygur
Jerry Springer

Not being sarcastic...but which of these is still being syndicated?


john garrett said:
The faliure of AA was due to poor business management and not content.
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That's debatable. They put people on the air with little or no radio experience with the idea that they could "carry a show". Most of the 'content' was pretty deplorable. Remember, Content is King!



john garrett said:
Jeff Santos leased 1510. If you want to call that having to pay to get liberal talk radio on the air fine.
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Yes "leasing" time...is what we call "having to pay" to get a program on the air.

While the talk format is under intense pressure (for many reasons), it's hard to find a Liberal talk success story.

(Is that why MSNBC is in the toilet too?)
 
There may still be a channel on XM/Sirius carrying progressive talkers; it's called Sirius Left or Pravda or something. Rhodes and Franken gave up their shows I think (The Al
Franken Decade went to the Senate). Robert F Kennedy sounded like he was imitating Katherine Hepburn but maybe he has a condition or something. Howie is working on a "Kennedy Babylon" type book.

The PHC was just a fun jab at the show; Dan Kennedy had posted a link on facebook to an article about a Garrison hater and pointed out that most people mistake other
program distributors like PRI and APM for NPR when they aren't the same thing. In a way I help to pay to get liberal talk on the air; it may be a small contribution, but
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting does take some public funding. _Some_. The New England radio dial may have one or two progressive talkers; Brattleboro in
Bernie Sanders territory for one; Bangor, thanks to Stephen King*, is another. Elsewhere Entercom had their 1520 in Buffalo going for awhile before finally giving
way to sports. Ditto a station in Portland OR, and ironically enough one of the first things they aired was a basketball game where one coach was Michele
Obama's brother. iHeart may be getting a 0.3 for WKOX, same kinda numbers prog talk got, but they at least put it on to satisfy national advertisers for conservative talkers
like Beck, Rush, etc.

OK I guess the XM/S progressive station is now called SiriusXMProgress (Steph Miller, Hartmann, etc) and they have several public radio type stations and other
news-talk outlets to please.
http://www.siriusxm.com/siriusxmprogress

*--Now listening to audiobook of King's "Insomnia". Ralph Roberts has a major problem with a sleep disorder and starts seeing weird things.
He lives in the fictional town of Derry, ME, based on Bangor. Perhaps listening to WZON 620 will help him get to sleep, and fast.
http://wzonthepulse.com/weekdaypgms.html
 
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