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WaPo’s Howard Kurtz reports that liberal radio network Air America says its audience is “running ahead of projections.” Kurtz neglects to mention that the network’s pathetic ratings tell a different story.
Update, 8:51 pm: Although Kurtz does not challenge the ridiculous “running ahead of projections” assertion, in fairness I should note his comment that Air [...]

Enjoy…
- Yet another liberal talk radio show… this time it’s Al Sharpton. Brian Maloney provides background and explains why it will fail.
- More dismal ratings for Air America in Boston and San Francisco (scroll to end of post).
- PoliPundit wonders if John Kerry really signed his SF-180 form. Tempus Fugit says the signing of the [...]

From Widefield, Colorado, the latest addition to the anti-Bush assassination chic file (hat tip: reader Angela C.):
High school yearbooks were recalled so that administrators could black out a joke caption under one student’s picture: “most likely to assassinate President Bush.”
Mesa Ridge High School officials recalled about 100 yearbooks earlier this month and had staffers use [...]

Via AP with a hat tip to Daly Thoughts:
Radio host Al Franken, who is mulling a run against Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., in 2008, has purchased a town house on the edge of downtown Minneapolis and will establish residency in Minnesota.
“It’s one of the things I need to do if I decide to make a [...]

Future special correspondents for Air America’s Pyongyang bureau…

North Korean children play a shooting game with a toy gun aiming at a portrait of U.S. President George W. Bush at Namjun kindergarten in Shinwiju, Pyongan-Budo, North Korea. The photo was released by Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on May 9, 2005. (Reuters)
(Via Yahoo Photos and the [...]

How does Air America’s marquee host deal with pathetic ratings? Deny, lie, and vilify. Brian Maloney reports that in an interview with South Park Conservatives author Brian Anderson, Al Franken asserted today that Air America’s ratings are not available to the public. So I guess the radio trade industry is just making it all up? [...]

Tom Blumer at Bizzyblog thinks the blogosphere is cutting into the talk radio audience:
I believe the blogosphere has been taking listeners away from talk radio, and that the pace of this shift is accelerating. I believe it’s true on the left and the right, as Air America, having gained no meaningful traction during the election [...]

Assuming you’ve seen the Drudge Report flash
on the Air America skit broadcast yesterday and now apparently under investigation for its assassination overtones.
Randi Rhodes has used this rhetoric before. From May 2004:
Comparing Bush and his family to the Corleones of “Godfather” fame, Air America host Randi Rhodes reportedly unleashed this zinger during her Monday night [...]

Brian Maloney takes a look at Air America’s dismal performance in the most recent Arbitron ratings, which were released last night:
[In New York City,] WLIB’s tiny 1.2 audience share, for all listeners 12 and older, is the same as for Fall 2004. The audience is actually smaller now than when the station first flipped to [...]

Air America executives are furious about Brian Anderson’s op-ed in the Los Angeles Times.
Here’s their spin.
And here are the facts.
(Hat tip: Brian Maloney.)

Brian Anderson, author of South Park Conservatives, explains in today’s LA Times.
Anderson also notes the effort by Rep. Maurice “Unhinged” Hinchey to revive the “Fairness Doctrine”–a legislative sledgehammer targeting conservative viewpoints.
Because if you can’t beat ‘em, regulate ‘em.
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Brian Maloney dissects the latest ratings.
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Brian Maloney has an interesting post up about Air America’s failure to catch fire with listeners:
- Air America’s flagship station, WLIB-AM in New York, garnered a 1.2 share in the latest quarter, down 0.1 from the year-ago period. By comparison, WABC-AM, New York’s leading conservative station, garnered a 3.8 share, up 0.1 from the year-ago [...]