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Percy, Pull the plug on AAR

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bierkenstock

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An Open Letter to Inner City Broadcasting

Borough President Sutton, Mayor Dinkens, Congressman Rangel...

You are respected New York civic leaders. Together you established Inner City Broadcasting, licensee of WLIB, WBLS and other radio stations around the country. The company has been successful. Now your reputation and your company's image is tainted by your association with Air America Radio. As more and more information comes out, it appears that misuse of public funds goes beyond previous management and Evan Cohen alone. It also appears current management and air talent knew more than they originally acknowledged. Air America Radio's conduct is at the very least questionable.

It is time for Inner City Broadcasting to end its association with Air America Radio on WLIB and on ICBC stations in Philadelphia and Columbia, SC. Not only does the AAR scandal tarnish Inner City Broadcasting's reputation, the scandal along with AAR's declining ratings negatively impact the value of the ICBC stations which carry their programming (and thereby decrease shareholder equity).

Both as civic leaders and corporate officers, you have a responsibility to disassociate Inner City Broadcasting from Air America Radio. Pull the plug now!
 
Question

Bierkenstock,

Can you be more specific about AAR's misuse of public funds, or what station management knew about the former owners wrongdoing?

Thanks.
 
Re: Question

> Bierkenstock,
>
> Can you be more specific about AAR's misuse of public funds,
> or what station management knew about the former owners
> wrongdoing?
>
> Thanks.
>

Click Here
 
Re: Question

> > Bierkenstock,
> >
> > Can you be more specific about AAR's misuse of public
> funds,
> > or what station management knew about the former owners
> > wrongdoing?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
>
> Click Here
>
I cannot BELIEVE that we are actually discussing crap from some idiot's website (blogsite) as gospel truth on here. Who the hell is Brian Maloney and who really cares? "He's been compared to Rush Limbuagh..." I had gas one night that could have been compared what Rush does for a living.

Why doesn't Radio-Info just create a political talk radio tab so these 4 people can beat the (BLEEP) out of each other on their and leave us alone? This is getting nauseating. I don't care about monies behind the scenes at Air America and I don't care about this dork Brian Maloney (or is it bierkenstock?)

I am done with this place.
 
> As more and more information comes out, it appears that
> misuse of public funds goes beyond previous management and
> Evan Cohen alone. It also appears current management and
> air talent knew more than they originally acknowledged. Air
> America Radio's conduct is at the very least questionable.

No it doesn't and no it's not. A biased blog won't get even get you a hearing on Law & Order.

> Not only does
> the AAR scandal tarnish Inner City Broadcasting's
> reputation, the scandal along with AAR's declining ratings
> negatively impact the value of the ICBC stations which carry
> their programming (and thereby decrease shareholder equity).

We live in a fact-based world, not on right wing make believe.

> Both as civic leaders and corporate officers, you have a
> responsibility to disassociate Inner City Broadcasting from
> Air America Radio. Pull the plug now!

Yeah, this will work. Yawn.
 
Re: Question

> "He's been
> compared to Rush Limbuagh..."

By himself most likely.

This is actually something *new* but if this is what qualifies as the smoking gun, the NRA would assume we banned guns in this country.

I don't intend to dwell on it because there is no "there" there.
 
Re: Question

>
> Why doesn't Radio-Info just create a political talk radio
> tab so these 4 people can beat the (BLEEP) out of each other
> on their and leave us alone? This is getting nauseating. I
> don't care about monies behind the scenes at Air America and
> I don't care about this dork Brian Maloney (or is it
> bierkenstock?)
>
> I am done with this place.
>

The linked essay is backed by documents. Go back to your board-op shift.
 
Re: Ignore subject lines, KIRO-AM

> I cannot BELIEVE that we are actually discussing crap from
> some idiot's website (blogsite) as gospel truth on here. Who
> the hell is Brian Maloney and who really cares? "He's been
> compared to Rush Limbuagh..." I had gas one night that could
> have been compared what Rush does for a living.
>
> Why doesn't Radio-Info just create a political talk radio
> tab so these 4 people can beat the (BLEEP) out of each other
> on their and leave us alone? This is getting nauseating. I
> don't care about monies behind the scenes at Air America and
> I don't care about this dork Brian Maloney (or is it
> bierkenstock?)
>
> I am done with this place.

Or, just don't read the posts about the controversies. I don't read the voluminous posts about Air America scandals. I come to this board for information on new progressive talent and new progressive talk affiliates. The entertaiment industry has always had scandals of one sort another and always will.

I don't have a problem with posters discussing these issues if this is of interest to them. Brian Maloney has an excellent and informative blog on talk radio, whether you agree with his views or not. Maloney was unjustifiably fired from Entercom's KIRO-AM in this market anyway in Sept. 2004. Additional on-air personnel were let go around the first of this year.

Entercom also sold its "business station" 1210 KNWX, resulting in several layoffs. KIRO-AM cancelled its afternoon local news and has faced declining 12+ ratings since the high in fall '04. Looks like the market's major talkers KIRO,KVI,KOMO,KTTH,and KPTK are all roughly within a share or two of each other (12+ 6a-MID). The question remains if and when KIRO-AM will ever rebound to its former perpetual #1 status for all stations (12+ 6a-MID).

<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by this Tom: on 09/08/05 05:07 AM.</FONT></P>
 
> An Open Letter to Inner City Broadcasting
>
> Borough President Sutton, Mayor Dinkens, Congressman
> Rangel...

A few problems with your post.

Percy Sutton hasn't been borough president since the 70's.

David Dinkens hasn't been mayor since the early 90's.

What connection does Charles Rangel have with Inner City Broadcasting?

The current owners of Air America haven't been accused of any wrongdoing (unless you count an unemployed former part-time talk show host, an extreme right-wing columnist, etc.).

And so on.
 
> An Open Letter to Inner City Broadcasting

Since you use an alias and there's no name in your profile, is this an anonymous open letter?
 
> An Open Letter to Inner City Broadcasting
>
> Borough President Sutton, Mayor Dinkens, Congressman
> Rangel...
>
> You are respected New York civic leaders. Together you
> established Inner City Broadcasting, licensee of WLIB, WBLS
> and other radio stations around the country. The company
> has been successful. Now your reputation and your company's
> image is tainted by your association with Air America Radio.
> As more and more information comes out, it appears that
> misuse of public funds goes beyond previous management and
> Evan Cohen alone. It also appears current management and
> air talent knew more than they originally acknowledged. Air
> America Radio's conduct is at the very least questionable.
>
> It is time for Inner City Broadcasting to end its
> association with Air America Radio on WLIB and on ICBC
> stations in Philadelphia and Columbia, SC. Not only does
> the AAR scandal tarnish Inner City Broadcasting's
> reputation, the scandal along with AAR's declining ratings
> negatively impact the value of the ICBC stations which carry
> their programming (and thereby decrease shareholder equity).
>
>
> Both as civic leaders and corporate officers, you have a
> responsibility to disassociate Inner City Broadcasting from
> Air America Radio. Pull the plug now!
>

Why do you hate them for their freedom?

My IQ just went down about five points reading this garbage.<P ID="signature">______________
The Liberal Talk Radio Update</P>
 
Re: Question

> >
> > Why doesn't Radio-Info just create a political talk radio
> > tab so these 4 people can beat the (BLEEP) out of each
> other
> > on their and leave us alone? This is getting nauseating. I
>
> > don't care about monies behind the scenes at Air America
> and
> > I don't care about this dork Brian Maloney (or is it
> > bierkenstock?)
> >
> > I am done with this place.
> >
>
> The linked essay is backed by documents. Go back to your
> board-op shift.
>
You are exactly the mind-numbing ignoramus mentality of why this board lacks REAL radio discussions. Yes, some people, like the above poster, come here for legitimate information. You have to search far, wide and hard to find it on this News/Talk board, but you can find a thread of decent info from time to time.

I could sink to your level of trying to make fun of a certain job in the radio business (board ops...are there any left with automation?), but I refrane. Let everyone else reading this post see your immaturity for what it is.
 
> > An Open Letter to Inner City Broadcasting
>
> Since you use an alias and there's no name in your profile,
> is this an anonymous open letter?


Apparently. And yours is an anonymous reply to an anonymous open letter.

(Why am I one of the few idiots who attaches his real name to his opinions?)<P ID="signature">______________
Jerry

"If we knew what we were doing, it would not be called research, would it." - Albert Einstein </P>
 
Re: Question

Shadow...I'm glad you aren't really "done with this place". As you said, there is good stuff here. Sometimes there is some "wading" to do, but such is life. Sometimes we "wade" through people in reality (vs virtuality) just to find good friends.

BUT, to both you and morescrapple, stop with the flaming. It's unecessary and unwanted.

Thanks.<P ID="signature">______________



</P>
 
New York Sun on the Evan Cohen Scandal

From the conservative New York Sun, which has a little more credibility than Brian Maloney:

Yesterday, Mr. Franken stood by his earlier statement. He said that, on the advice of his lawyer, Gunnar Erickson, he signed the agreement last fall that erased legal claims he had against Messrs. Cohen and Sorensen because they owed him money, but he said he did not see the list of liabilities that included the Gloria Wise transfers.

(snip)

Mr. Cohen, previously unreachable, told the Sun yesterday that no one at the radio network knew about the transfers while they occurred, which the agreement said was between October 2003 and March 2004.

(snip)
Correction from September 8, 2005

A settlement agreement signed by Al Franken, Evan Montvel Cohen, and other parties acknowledged that the Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club had claims totaling $875,000 against the Air America radio network, but did not commit any party to the payment of those claims. A front-page story in yesterday's New York Sun misstated the terms of the agreement.

http://www.nysun.com/article/19659
 
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