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Poll: AAR Deathwatch

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The Bravo TV Network site is running "Brilliant But Canceled - Deathwatch 06" in which users bet on which new TV series will be next to die and the site tracks the changing odds based on people's bets. (Current front-runner is Men In Trees at 3:1.)

With a hat-tip to Bravo (owned by NBC), here is the AAR DeathWatch. Please place your bets:

Shows Most Likely to Disappear (from national syndication, at least)

  • Jerry Springer no bets (Already on life-support)
  • Peter Werbe 8:5 (Back to Dee-Troit)
  • Sam Seder 2:1 (Sam who?)
  • Al Franken 3:1 (As good a time as any to start campaigning)
  • Rachel Maddow 4:1 (Good choice for a local gig)

Shows Most Likely to Get a New Syndicator

  • Randi Rhodes 8:5 (She's probably already had offers)
  • Thom Hartmann 2:1 (Only thing holding him is he needs somebody who will sell him this time)
  • The Young Turks 4:1 (New. May want a little more time get established before jumping.)

Most Likely to Take Over Air America Radio

  • Rob Glaser/Democracy Alliance 2:1
  • Jones Radio 4:1 (If the price is right but they don't need the name if they can cherry-pick the talent)
  • Sheldon Drobny/Nova M 8:1 (He'd like to but it may cost too much even for him)
  • Clear Channel/Premiere Radio 20:1 (In a down-sizing mode now. Selling, not buying.)
  • George Soros 100:1 (Only listed because some people seem to expect it; no way he's playing.)
 
I'm going with a 1000:1 longshot and say Ted Turner buys Air America. He's a maverick and he's still mad about what Time Warner/AOL did to his company he built up. I don't know if he understands radio, but he knows how to make money.
 
There's talk that libtalk can work, but AAR just isn't it. Heard some "AAR" stations are accenting that they're
progressive talk and that they only carry a couple AAR shows (Franken, Rhodes) while also being served by Jones (Schulz, S. Miller). I wouldn't be too surprised if you see a downplaying of the AAR logo on many of their stations' websites.

AAR should have maybe launched one or two shows--with better talent--instead of a whole network and maybe even marketed themselves to the mostly-conservative stations as part of a "mixed" lineup. "Rush wasn't built in a day"--it would take awhile to get going but you wouldn't have all this bankruptcy stuff. The libs need to find their
Limbaugh--Franken ain't it. And a reminder: liberal talk didn't start with Franken. There were many years
and many failures before--Hightower, Cuomo, J. Jackson, etc.

The funny part of all this is that one reason for AAR's failure is that people didn't find their shows
entertaining...this despite the fact that ENTERTAINERS (Franken, Garofolo, Chuck D, Springer)
were being hired for just that purpose!

Question: what does libtalk want to do?
A) Make money and entertain/inform listeners
B) Influence elections

Conservative talk is more A than B perhaps...? Is libtalk simply the Left's way to try and influence
elections? Surely those on the Left will say Rightie talk is there to influence elections, but while it may
be partly true, their main focus is to entertain and make money.
 
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