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Friday, January 26, 2007

Air America Can’t Even Pull Listeners In Santa Cruz

Pretty telling when liberal radio can’t even pull listeners in one of the most liberal cities in America.

SANTA CRUZ — Al Franken, Randi Rhodes and Sam Seeder — articulate liberal pundits — don’t sell well, even in Santa Cruz.

The trio are part of the nationally syndicated Air America, which was dropped from Santa Cruz radio station KOMY 1340 AM on Thursday and replaced with music from the 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s.

The left-leaning radio network, aimed at taking on Rush Limbaugh and other conservative talk shows, debuted on Central Coast airwaves in July 2005, but local advertisers never bought in, station owner Michael Zwerling said.

“We didn’t sell a single ad in a year and a half,” Zwerling said Thursday. “I thought liberal radio would work as a viable advertising business in the most liberal town in America. I was wrong”

Santa Cruz isn’t the only place Air America has problems. The network is struggling nationwide and filed for bankruptcy four months ago.

What’s funny is that even the liberals in Santa Cruz seem to be listening to conservative talk radio given Rush Limbaugh’s numbers in the area:

Zwerling put Air America on the air as an alternative to the Limbaugh program, which plays on KOMY’s sister station KSCO 1080 AM every morning.

Limbaugh is a major moneymaker for the station, Zwerling said, and his show pulls the highest ratings of any program on KSCO or KOMY.

I think there’s probably a market out there for liberal radio, it’s just that the liberals who would fill it aren’t as crazy as Al Franken and Randi Rhodes.

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Now they are counting on the Democrat Congress, via the hobbit Dennis Kucinich, to restore the Fairness Doctrine and force Conservative radio and television to give these liberal losers equal time; while not forcing ABC, CBS and NBC or the MSM to give Conservatives equal time.

Oh, and Mr & Mrs taxpayer will foor the bill!


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Neiman on January 26, 2007 at 05:50 pm

Maybe if they could get some better people?  I don’t really know about the other two?  BUT Al Franken is such a washed up has been…

Zsa Zsa on January 26, 2007 at 06:04 pm

Zsa Zsa: How about getting a better message, one less hate filled?


No matter the age or state of health, for a military man it is always glorious to tilt at windmills, rescue a fair Dulcinea and be a gallant knight in armor in a glorious cause.

Neiman on January 26, 2007 at 06:13 pm

Neiman, I really tried to think of a nicer way to say it BUT I went blank. I am sorry Al Franken is such a washed up has been. I apologize for that!

Zsa Zsa on January 26, 2007 at 06:37 pm

I think there’s probably a market out there for liberal radio, it’s just that the liberals who would fill it aren’t as crazy as Al Franken and Randi Rhodes.

While your latter point is completely valid (can anyone seriously listen to Mrs. Rhodes and take her seriously? She’s terrible...), even were the talent on Air America better I don’t believe there is much of a market for it.  There are a few liberal talk radio stations/shows in Sacramento and in the San Fransisco Bay Area that have survived for years (way before Air America) but only barely.  Most are relegated to late night and weekend spots.  They don’t exactly have the largest audience, and they are in San Fran-freaking-sicso… haha.

I just think there is so much liberal media out there that you don’t need ANOTHER medium (radio) on which to get liberal thoughts.  The market is pretty much saturated with liberal thought already, there just isn’t the market for it to thrive.


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Sphagnum on January 26, 2007 at 06:38 pm

Sphagnum, That is exactly what it is! Maybe Air America should go conservative??? You never know?…

Zsa Zsa on January 26, 2007 at 06:47 pm

The problem with liberal talk radio is content… or rather lack of it.

Liberalism is based on emotion, on feelings, not on any sort of intellectual substance.  Liberals can tell us how they feel about something or someone.  They can explain what they dislike and what they feel is wrong, but they are all but useless at offering cogent, workable solutions to problems.

Listening to Air America (Yeah, that’s an appropriate name, alright!) is like sitting through three solid hours of Don Rickles.  Except, of course, that Rickles is occasionally funny.


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Bat One on January 26, 2007 at 07:36 pm

HA ha ha… Woof, that is too funny! I love it!

Zsa Zsa on January 26, 2007 at 07:48 pm

HA ha ha… Woof, that is too funny! I love it!

... wrong post maybe?  Woof hasn’t commented here.... lol


I think Rob hates me… I mean, just look at the pic he took of me!

Sphagnum on January 26, 2007 at 08:46 pm

Hmmm? How did that happen? I’m sure I saw a post of woofs that had a picture of two interesting looking people with guns??? Crazy man crazy…

Zsa Zsa on January 26, 2007 at 08:53 pm

The problem with Air America is the people delivering the Message I listen to it once in a while to remind myself how bad they are. Its the same old tired shit, Randy Rhodes gets on there and she sounds like she has been smoking pot all night and drinking and there is nothing but vemon spewing out of her filty mouth. All she can do is say Bush is a nazi, and Bush is stupid and Bush is evil and the war is evil and Rumfield is a Nazi and Gitmo is a gulag. After a while I am sure the listeners just turn off the dial.

As far as left wing radio goes, I actually think Ed Schultz although I agree with most nothing he says is at least some what kind of entertaining.

Lastly I don’t see this fairness doctring passing in the end. Dennis Kucinich, is looked at as nothing more than a far left loon and is rarely taken very seriously.


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talent on Air America

Isn’t that an oxymoron?  Perhaps if there were talent on Air America, they might be able to keep an audience…



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Proof on January 27, 2007 at 08:54 am

Your right there isn’t any talent on Air America.
Randy Rhodes has no talent, anyone can say the hateful stuff she does.


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goon on January 27, 2007 at 10:42 am
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The problem with “Air America” is that if you want to listen to the liberal point of view, you can just turn on N.P.R. or watch the networks.  The media are saturated with liberals, there just isn’t room for a poorly produced, frothing at the mouth version.  Whereas conservative talk radio is the only media outlet for an alternative.  Hence its popularity.

Gandalin on January 28, 2007 at 08:30 am
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Air America Can’t Even Pull Listeners In Santa Cruz
By Rob on January 26, 2007 at 05:37 pm

Air America is failing because liberals do not like to be “preached”. Listening to preachers is more of a wright wing thing and therefore the Rush Limbaughs and Sean Hannitys have found success.

ellinas on January 28, 2007 at 08:53 am

Air America is failing because liberals do not like to be “preached”. Listening to preachers is more of a wright wing thing and therefore the Rush Limbaughs and Sean Hannitys have found success.

It’s actually a lot simpler than that.  Rush and Sean tell the truth, and AA lies.  After decades of being lied to by the media(now the MSM), the American public is hungry for the truth, and eagerly buys it wherever and whenever it is available.  The economic success of Conservative media is proof of this.  No one is forced to buy the Conservative message; those who buy it do that of their own free will.


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robert108 on January 28, 2007 at 10:44 am

I am sick of the MSM being a lap dog for the Liberals and DNC and any swaying away from the MSM causes people to start applying labels like Right Wing Hacks as if some how the MSM is more credible. That is why talk radio became so powerful and hard to defeat. This is why the morons on the left want to control it because its kicking their ass and they don’t like it. The left though wow, we should do that and it failed. Now they want some stupid fairness doctrine, which I don’t think will ever pass because you can’t force people to talk about both sides of the political spectrum especially on comerical radio.


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goon on January 28, 2007 at 11:12 am

Air America is failing because liberals do not like to be “preached

Huh?  Are you saying that Air America is failing because it IS preaching to liberals?  Or did you just write the first thing thought that appeared in your feeble mind which of course makes no sense whatsoever?


You don’t have to be a moron to be a liberal Democrat but it sure helps.

docdave on January 28, 2007 at 11:22 am

The MSM is composed of leftie “preachers”, who preach the fundamentalism of the left.  They want to destroy any who don’t follow their fundamentalist doctrine.


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Err America is failing because they don’t offer any humorous insight into the human condition (or any insight at all!), they merely bleat defeat and retreat.

Liberals can listen to Rush without agreeing with him. Conservatives don’t listen to Err America unless they’re being held against their will and in violation of the Geneva Conventions!



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Proof on January 28, 2007 at 11:41 am
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