Re: Air America files Chapter 11
On Oct 13, 2006, at 12:39 PM, ravi wrote:
Any thoughts on the cause of this? I had switched from listening to
WBAI to AAR (no worries, Doug: I have the DougCast on the iPod, along with Democracy Now) since WBAI’s programming is often puzzlingly irrelevant (to left/progressive issues), when its not (I am afraid) boring. I
just renewed my WBAI membership since I still believe its a worthy medium. Anyway, back to my story: I listened to AAR 1010AM for a while, but their signal is weaker than even the liberals that listen to them.Everyone I know (in the NYC area) complains about right-wing
domination of talk radio and how they have nothing to listen to. So, what brought them down? Replacing Rachel Madow [sp?] with Jerry Springer?!
Dunno. When I listen to the radio, it’s usually WFMU. So I’m totally
unqualified to comment on AA’s programming. It probably did eat into
WBAI’s audience, but a lot of people at WBAI don’t want the kind of
“liberals” who’d listen to AA or NPR. Better to be righteous & marginal!
Doug