Air America declares bankruptcyFollow

I had no idea they were even still on the air.

According to their site, they're back in the Windy City broadcasting on WCPT - 850 AM.

They must be broadcasting from someone's basement using a RadioShack crystal radio transmitter kit because I'll be damned if I've stumbled across them in the past couple of years.

I learned about it last week when the comic strip Prickly City ran a few days worth material about it on October 3, 4, 5 and 6. I got a good chuckle.

Proof that democrats can't handle finances.

Huh. I first thought this was a thread where you found out some secret super-secret black flight ops had been uncovered which stemmed back to the Vietnam days and was being deactivated due to lack of funding.

Never mind. Carry on about Al Frankin, one of the most irrelevant talk show hosts since that liberal acting chick who thought she had something worth listening to also. It makes me think that public debate must be in the genes of conservatives and somehow mutant DNA kills it off in libs.

Totem

I would assume that most of the Liberal commentators will continue on with other networks. They just wont have a single corporate entity underwhich to run all their different shows. It's not like Franken wasn't on the air *before* Air America showed up. And Alan Colmes has had a radio show for quite some time (of course, he's on Fox News, but his views don't stray that far from Someone like Shultz, or Lionel).



The problem wasn't the format, or the creditors (although they did typically go spend crazy when they got their first funding sources, and then when the bills came in nearly went bankrupt), the problem is that the people they actually put on the show are almost all nutjobs. There are a handful of "reasonable" commentators. They're still kinda fringey, and sometimes you're still going to have a jaw-drop-to-the-floor moment when listening to them talk, but at least they're "talking" about the issues. A large percentage of their commentators essentially did nothing but make jokes and slams about everything Republican or Conservative.

That's not talk radio. That's just someone sitting there in front of a microphone venting about how much they hate Republicans for 3 hours at a time. You're not going to keep listeners for long unless you can actually speack intelligently about current events, and very very few of them can.

The definition of irony.

Fixed. That's AP grade 3.0 "news" for ya. ^_^



Talk about a limp leftist revolution. You have the right to listen or a cultural re-education program will be provided for you if you can't afford this week's short bus special interest rate. But then again there always was a long line Honesty shortage from said socialists. Domage.