Why Air America REALLY failed

First of all, MOTHERFUCK these stupid KKKons out there saying "THIS AM BE THE END OF LIBRUL TALKS RADUO!" Wrong. Randi Rhodes, Stephanie Miller, Thom Hartmann, Mike Malloy, Rachel Maddow, Bill Press, Ed Schultz, and dozens upon dozens of others are still ON THE AIR, WITH LARGER AUDIENCES THAN EVEN!!! Not to mention plenty of local shows who have INTER-national followings thanks to the internetS, such as Shannyn Moore in Anchorage, Angie Coiro in San Fran, etc.!

So let's run down why Air America REALLY shit the bed:

1) It's the TALENT, stupid!
You can't have a fucking radio network (yes, and ENTIRE radio network, 24/7!) without REAL tried and true RADIO talent. I greatly appreciate the time and effort put in by people such as Al Franken, who has since reclaimed Paul Wellstone's senate seat--and good on him, for trying their hand at radio. However, it's no where near as easy as it looks. Randi was probably one of the FEW veterans of radio to start out on AAR. Mind you, most of the folks on AAR who were not radio vets did OUTSTANDING in the medium, especially Jeanane Gorafalo. Hell, even Al got better after time! BUT, to not have started out with the folks who busted their asses in one local market after another and never could go national thanks to the Con-owned media, was just plain STUPID.

2) Once you get radio talent, KEEP IT!
After AAR did some reshuffling of the deck, they for a while, had a pretty goddamn solid line up! Morning Sedition was catching on (and 6-9 AM is a ROUGH time slot to get an audience!), Unfiltered was catching on (9-noon ain't too easy either!) and AAR brought in Mike Malloy and Thom Hartmann, two of the BEST in radio! So, this brings me to my next point: their MANAGEMENT!

3) I should have combine this with #2, but oh well! When you have a liberal network, make GODDAMN SURE it's management is NOT infiltrated by PSYCHO CONSERVATIVES who are out to RUIN IT! And in AAR's case, it's too late for that! As if it was enough to recover from the very ugly fall out of Lizz Winstead leaving, among others, the straw that broke the camels back was the EXTREMELY UGLY firing of Mike Malloy. Which all worked out very nicely for me, since I can now get his show again on Sirius, and have been listening since, thanks AAR! I'll never forget that day. Mike was ON HIS WAY to I forget which station's studios in Atlanta, to fill in for Randi, when he gets a call saying he's been FIRED! How shitty is that?! What galls me out is Al Franken refused to let AAR run promos for Malloy's show on his. Why? Cuz Mike is *GASP* critical of Israel's INSANE government! How many fucking times does it HAVE to be said that being anti-Zionist is NOT the same as HATING EVERY SINGLE LAST JEWISH PERSON?! (Talk to some orthodox Jews if you can, they for the most part HATE Israel's government more than damn near anybody you'll ever meet!)
Then there was the EXTREMELY ugly defacto-firing of Randi. By then, due to the backlash AAR recieved from the Mike Malloy Army, this about did them in! Randi, as far as most people were concerned, WAS Air America. As a long time listener going back to her WIOD days (hell, I even remember her as a Rock N Roll DJ on the late great WSHE!) I'll be the first to testify! That bullshit of her saying Hillary Clinton was "a whore" ON STAGE IN FRONT OF ADULTS...IN SAN FRANCISCO, using THAT as their excuse to try to fire her, was utterly PATHETIC. By then Malloy was with the also-now-defunct Nova M radio network (He's now syndicating all by himself, thank you very much! And Randi is with Premire.) so it was a no-brainer for her to go with them! As far as I am concerned, THE ENTIRE IDEA OF AIR AMERICA WAS RANDI'S!!!!!!! She had said on the air for YEARS that she had tried and tried to syndicate, and was held back by Crap Channel, and she wanted there to be an entire network of 24 hour a day liberal talk radio! IF they had followed her ideas, AIR AMERICA WOULD HAVE BEEN A HUGE SUCCESS!!!!!

4) YOU NEED A NEW YORK STATION!
And by that I mean ONE WITH A SIGNAL THAT COVERS NYC! Their first flagship station was, if you'll recall, 1090 AM, which BARELY covered the 5 borrows, SE CT and NE NJ! Ok...it's a start. But then that deal fell through, and AAR ended up on 1600 AM which from all accounts has a range of 5 miles TOPS!

5) YOUR NYC STATION NEEDS TO HAVE ALL OF YOUR SHOWS!
I could have included this with #4, but it gets it's own deal cuz this is just so unbelievable.
When AAR lost 1090 AM and went with 1600, they put on Ed Shultz (syndicated by Dial Global) instead of Thom Hartmann! (Hartmann is now ironically with Dial Global!) How insane is that?! Then, 1600 wouldn't air Sam Seder (another great talent they fucked over!) on, so they instead would sometimes air Stephanie Miller! Real smooth people! Way to support your talent!

6) Make sure you're not getting a shit deal when you syndicate!
As if it's not hard ENOUGH to keep a station on in NYC that has liberal talk 24/7 (it takes money ya know?) if you're going to syndicate to LA and Chicago, make GODDAMN SURE YOU HAVE IRON-CLAD DEALS! Remember 2 months after they launched?! Out of nowhere, LA & Chicago drops them. This was due to a KKKon who snuck in and fucked their shit up. This also goes back to point #3.

I could go on and on all goddamn day on how this network fucked up almost everything it touched, but you get the idea. Let it be a lesson to broadcasters who wish to do a 24/7 liberal format AND let it set the record STRAIGHT to you stupidass lying moron KKKons (man was THAT redundant!) out there who do nothing but talk BULLSHIT.

LIBERAL TALK IS STILL ALIVE AND WELL, NO THANKS TO AIR AMERICA, BUT TO THE OUTSTANDING RADIO TALENT WHO WORK THEIR ASSES OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!

Info on new Randi Rhodes DC area stationS, yes PLURAL!!!!!!!!!!

AWWWWW YEEEEEEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RANDI RHODES (my future wife) IN DA MUTHAFUKIN HIZOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh you just know the Pubicans are shizatting in their pants! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Oh and I hope Bwoooooooooozypoo Majordildolips has his tweezers handy so he can jizzack izzoff nice and hard while he downloads child porn for Mark Foley!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Washington, DC - 1500 WWWT
Manassas, VA - 107.7 *FM* WWWT
Frederick, MD - 820 WWWB
And the other Air America/other progressive shows station is still on the airs and that is:
Washington, DC - 1260 WWRC
which has most other AAR shows like Rachel Maddow, Thom Hartmann, Jon Eliot, & Lionel, plus Bill Press and Ed DINO Shitz. Stephanie Miller (my OTHER future wife) will be moving over to WWWT soon, but is currently on WWRC. Ok, is that clear now?! Yeah, clear as MUD right?! Oh well! Oh and someone get Bwoooooooooozypoo Majordildolips a new 50 gallon vat of KY, he said on the xian KKKons yahoogroup that he was out!

Save KLSD 1360 AM in SAN DIEGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1. Sign the Petition (don't forget to forward to your friends!)

2. Email Program Director of KLSD AM 1360, Cliff Albert

3. Email VP Marketing at Clear Channel Corporate Offices

4. Email FCC Commissioner Michael Copps (public airwaves must serve the public!)

5. Join the Yahoo Group to help organize

6. Support KLSD's advertisers, If registered in Yahoo Group click here for the database of advertiser phone numbers.

7. Become an advertiser, call 858-292-2000 (ask for KLSD Ad Sales)

CARLISLE GROUP RUMORED INVOLVED IN PROGRESSIVE RADIO STATION SHUTDOWN

The only liberal/progressive broadcast media outlet in San Diego County is about to be shut down. Clear Channel, who owns KLSD 1360 AM, is in the process of switching the liberal talk format to yet another sports talk station.

Over 1,100 people have signed a petition calling on Clear Channel to keep KLSD's progressive format since word of the planned format change leaked out late last week. Clear Channel executives have also been deluged with thousands of e-mails, virtually all in favor of keeping Air America on the air in America's sixth largest city.

KLSD has received letters supporting KLSD progressive radio received from Senator Bernie Sanders, Democratic presidential candidate Senator Mike Gravel, and Ambassador Joe Wilson, husband of former CIA-agent Valerie Plame. . .

"I think this is another effort to shut down progressive voices where the message is most effective, especially here in a military town," said Bree Walker, an Air America host in Los Angeles and former San Diego TV newscaster who recently purchased Cindy Sheehan's ranch in Crawford, Texas. . .

A caller to an Air America program last week offered a tip that the Carlisle Group may be seeking to buy Clear Channel - a rumor that has triggered alarm throughout the progressive community. A global private equity firm based in Washington D.C., the Carlisle Group's board has included George W. Bush and his father, George H.W. Bush, former Secretary of State James Baker, and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The company operates several major funds and has business dealings in the defense, aerospace, energy and healthcare industries, among others.

Clear Channel, America's largest radio company with over 1,100 stations nationwide, was acquired by private equity firms Thomas H Lee Partners, Bain Capital and the company's founding family for nearly $US 19 billion in November 2006.

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