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In the news: A new era for liberal talk radio?

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CrankyYankee

Here's a link to an story about how a Vermont venture capitalist has become the new "head-guy-whats-in-charge" at Air America.
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How else could a ski bum evolve into a progressive-talk-radio financier?

Charlie Kireker expects to preside over efforts to develop an Air America growth strategy and raise new capital to finance it.

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/...?AID=/20080317/BUSINESS/803170301/1003&theme=
 
Well Fox "News" was loosing money for the first 5-6 years. Plus the Fox "News" Talk Radio is not doing so well. The only show that is doing well is Alan Clomes. Plus when the first ratings book for XM/Sirius Radio it shows that XM's Air America Radio channel was out performing the Fox "News" Talk channel.
 
gr8oldies said:
Nice that people still come forward to put money in that black hole
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Air America, bankrupt and dead by Fall 2004 Spring 2005 Summer 2006 Winter 2008 ...
 
Conservative talk radio wants Air America to hang in there. It can help put off the fiarness doctrine's return plus offer a good example of how inept the liberal message and messagers are.
 
WTUX said:
Conservative talk radio wants Air America to hang in there. It can help put off the fiarness doctrine's return plus offer a good example of how inept the liberal message and messagers are.
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Tuxguy...if liberal talkers were so inept, explain why Jones Radio is doing so well with them. Bill Press, Stephanie Miller and Ed Schultz continue to get a broad spectrum of advertisers and air on stations which do not air progressive talk exclusively.

Bill Press is currently the only syndicated morning-drive progressive talk host in the nation since Air America and Cenk Uyger (The Young Turks) parted company.

Stephanie Miller is one of five progressive talkers which, according to Talkers magazine, had an audience in excess of 1.5 million as of Fall 2007. (Tied with Alan Colmes, Lionel, Thom Hartmann and Randi Rhodes.)

Ed Schultz still leads with 3 million + plus listeners.
 
gr8oldies said:
How long is AAR going to be able to find sugar daddies though?
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The Fox News Channel had the ultimate "sugar daddy" in Rupert Murdoch, who lost half a billion dollars keeping FNC afloat for its first five years. Meanwhile, Murdoch continues to lose tens of millions every year keeping the New York Post afloat. He's keeping Post circulation numbers up by selling it for 25 cents -- one-fifth the per-copy cost of the NY Times.
 
willcail said:
Well Fox "News" was loosing money for the first 5-6 years. Plus the Fox "News" Talk Radio is not doing so well. The only show that is doing well is Alan Clomes. Plus when the first ratings book for XM/Sirius Radio it shows that XM's Air America Radio channel was out performing the Fox "News" Talk channel.
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That's not a reliable source. Due to the way Arbitron counts its listeners, it favors terrestrial over satellite. A lot of satellite listeners get mistakenly counted for AM and FM if they only write the program's name and don't write the source.
 
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