** U S A. LIBERAL TALK RADIO MUST FIND NEW CHICAGO STATION
By John Cook, Tribune staff reporter, April 20, 2004, 3:13 PM CDT

It was on, then it was off, then it was on again, and now it will be
off again.

Air America Radio, the recently launched liberal talk-radio network
that became embroiled last week in a financial dispute with the owner
of its Chicago and Los Angeles stations, will broadcast over WNTD-950
AM in Chicago for the last time on April 30, the network said today.

The network also said it will remain off the air for the time being in
Los Angeles, where it was yanked off its station there, KBLA-1580,
last week by owner Multicultural News Radio.

The announcement settles an acrimonious legal and public relations
battle between Air America and Multicultural. It also means that Air
America must seek new homes in the nation's second and third-largest
markets less than three weeks into its short life.

"We are pleased that we reached a negotiated settlement," said David
Goodfriend, executive vice president and general counsel of Air
America, in a terse statement. No Air America executives would comment
further. Copyright (c) 2004, Chicago Tribune (April 20 via Bill
Westenhaver, DXLD)
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"N8KDV" wrote in message
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** U S A. LIBERAL TALK RADIO MUST FIND NEW CHICAGO STATION
By John Cook, Tribune staff reporter, April 20, 2004, 3:13 PM CDT

It was on, then it was off, then it was on again, and now it will be
off again.

[snip]


That was the court settlement Air America reached with Multicultural reached
a week ago. The curious thing is Chicago's station is broadcasting only
some of Air America's live programming and filling in the rest with a music
loop. They offer no explaination of what's going on. It's particularly
strange listening to the hosts "explain" the real truth of what's going on
in the Bush administration and the Repubican Party, and they're carrying
their own double load of unexplained weirdness.

Frank Dresser

"N8KDV" wrote in message
...
** U S A. LIBERAL TALK RADIO MUST FIND NEW CHICAGO STATION
By John Cook, Tribune staff reporter, April 20, 2004, 3:13 PM CDT

It was on, then it was off, then it was on again, and now it will be
off again.

[snip]


That was the court settlement Air America reached with Multicultural reached
a week ago. The curious thing is Chicago's station is broadcasting only
some of Air America's live programming and filling in the rest with a music
loop. They offer no explaination of what's going on. It's particularly
strange listening to the hosts "explain" the real truth of what's going on
in the Bush administration and the Repubican Party, and they're carrying
their own double load of unexplained weirdness.

Frank Dresser

Money Talks;
Surmise there was a bidding war over who would rule those frequencies..
- and the $140,000,00 CEO's of Corporate America,
growing Richer by the day by
Shipping Your Jobs Overseas..
- And getting Tax Breaks for making America Poor
Possibly had a say in all this..

"Diverd4777" wrote in message
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Money Talks;
Surmise there was a bidding war over who would rule those frequencies..
- and the $140,000,00 CEO's of Corporate America,
growing Richer by the day by
Shipping Your Jobs Overseas..
- And getting Tax Breaks for making America Poor
Possibly had a say in all this..



OK, here's another wild guess. Air America is funded and run by a bunch of
incompetent dumasses who think they can play radio.

Outsourcing management might be an improvement.

Frank Dresser

"Frank Dresser"
wrote:news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
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| "Diverd4777" wrote:
| Money Talks; (blathering snipped)

| OK, here's another wild guess. Air America is funded and run by a bunch
of
| incompetent dumasses who think they can play radio.
|
| Outsourcing management might be an improvement.
|
| Frank Dresser

My guess is that outsourcing management to North Korea,
Cuba, or Red China would be a vast improvement - and
perfectly appropriate, considering AA's surreal behavior
of late.

73,

Steve Lawrence
KAØPMD
Burnsville, Minnesota

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"Frank Dresser"
wrote:news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
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| "Diverd4777" wrote:
| Money Talks; (blathering snipped)

| OK, here's another wild guess. Air America is funded and run by a bunch
of
| incompetent dumasses who think they can play radio.
|
| Outsourcing management might be an improvement.
|
| Frank Dresser

My guess is that outsourcing management to North Korea,
Cuba, or Red China would be a vast improvement - and
perfectly appropriate, considering AA's surreal behavior
of late.


Air America could hire RFPI's James Latham as a consultant. They need
people, preferably leftists, who are expirenced in weird broadcasting
battles.

And Latham wouldn't have played a music loop with weenie Billy Joel music.
No sir. He'd chain himself to the broadcast desk and do a live broadcast
daring the WNTD goon squad to just try and yank him off the air.

That would be great radio, but that isn't the Air America format. Air
America would stick Latham with two babbleing co-hosts of different genders
who would constantly interrupt him and each other with sub-lame attempts at
witticisms.

Just give the network to Alex Jones. Or James Lloyd. Or Brother Stair. Or
any else who, in a reletive sense, knows what they're doing.

Frank Dresser

"Frank Dresser" wrote
| Just give the network to Alex Jones. Or James Lloyd. Or Brother Stair.
Or
| any else who, in a reletive sense, knows what they're doing.
|
| Frank Dresser

(chuckling)

Too bad Arnie Coro isn't available.
I have to concur with you, especially your use
of the term "sub lame." I think you hit the nail
on the head - listening to Air America Radio
was sort of like watching a train crash, only
in slow motion.

I ask myself, again and again, "Is this the best
they can do?"

I guess that's what happens when any organization
attempts to buy a market, rather than building a
program's cumulative listener load.

I think it's further proof that some of these folks
just *don't* have a grasp of market economics.

73,

Steve Lawrence
KAØPMD
Burnsville, Minnesota

(NOTE: My email address has only one "dot."
You'll have to edit out the one between the "7"
and the "3" in my email address if you wish to
reply via email)


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