Air America Goes Silent in Northeast Ohio

Imagine my shock today when I turned on AM 1350 Radio Free Ohio to listen to Ed Schultz and I heard nothing but sports commentary from some guy claiming that AM 1350 was now the sports authority...

As reported here many times before, another Air America station bites the dust:  http://www.1350radiofreeohio.com/

More on the flip....

It was a weak station based out of Akron... Cleveland, the county seat of the most Democratic county in Ohio, apparently wasn't good enough to get its own station, so we had to contort our antennas and listen out of Akron.  I was grateful that we could get anything at all.  Sometimes it was hard to tune in from Cleveland, but I guess the signal wasn't weak enough for its Cleveland ClearChannel competitors.  They decided to crush it out of existence.  It was the sole voice of reason in an AM band full of nothing but wingnuts.  We already had at least four other 24 hour sports radio stations, but I guess we needed just one more...  After all, the Cleveland Indians AA minor league team needed a flagship station...  Heaven forbid that a station compete with "all conservative all the time" AM 1220 and its various clones across the dial.  WTAM 1100 is Cleveland's 50,000 watt superstation.  They get Rush Limbaugh, of course...

So, that's it... the monopolization of this market is complete...  you now have two whole choices on the AM band... sports or wingnuttery...  When is someone going to step up to the plate and offer talk radio for the majority of Americans?

•  Go Browns n/t

  by bill e on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 06:25:32 PM PDT

  •  And, Buckeyes n/t

    by Pink Lady on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 07:29:03 PM PDT

    •  Ugh... twice in one year n/t

      by bill e on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 07:33:12 PM PDT

  •  Hope they lose every game

    I have always hated team sports, especially football. I hate that the taxpayers were soaked some unknown amount over half a billion dollars for a stadium that will never pay for itself. And this is adding insult to injury. Another sports talk station- just what we don't have enough of.

    Lose, Browns. Lose.

    by anastasia p on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 10:15:09 PM PDT

    •  Blasphemy!

      I love my Browns.

      by bill e on Thu Apr 05, 2007 at 05:44:31 AM PDT

•  Tip Jar

  We need to find a way to get our own mass media.

  Thanks,

  Mike

  by LordMike on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 06:25:53 PM PDT

  •  at least we have Dkos

    I know its not radio, but I can live without liberal radio.
    Dkos is a necessity.

    by Winnie on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 08:21:24 PM PDT

  •  This is infuriating

    I got a flurry of emails Thursday saying it was going off the air and becoming yet another duplicative, useless sports talk station (Lose, Buckeyes! Lose, Browns! Lose, Indians! Los! Lose! Lose! I hate sports!) early the next morning, and sure enough, it did. It's weird to driv e to work in silence. I'm going to have to bring some CDs back out to my car. Sure, it's still online, but I generally only listen to radio in my car.

    Frankly, this is, as you suggest, an insult. I don't know where you are, but the station was extremely get-able on the Northeast side of Cleveland and downtown, where I am. And I loved it.  There has got to be some station in the city with a dying format that is willing to put on leftie talkers that will actually appeal to the bulk of this area's listeners. Funny how the Laura Ingrahams and Michael Medveds, whose bigoted, jingoistic radio shows I just saw an ad for a little while ago can always find an outlet for their trash-talk.

    by anastasia p on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 10:13:59 PM PDT

•  I lost Air America in Little Rock

  when it was sold. I also lost it on iTunes. I went from having two ways to listen to no ways to listen.

  by Village expects idiot home soon on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 06:29:21 PM PDT

  •  Can't you subscribe to AAR Premium?

    It's only $65 a year or something, and you can get mp3's of all the shows.

    I subscribed just to send my pittance their way regardless of whether I wanted the mp3's

    by pucklady on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 07:11:23 PM PDT

  •  XM radio

    its the best $12 per month you will ever spend.  AAR, Comedy, all kinds of stuff.

    by Denverite on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 08:22:57 PM PDT

•  Absolutely

  For one of my poly sci courses, I read "What Liberal Media" by Eric Alterman.  Really gets the blood boiling, especially the chapter about the 2000 election.

  by bill e on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 06:29:48 PM PDT

  •  Sorry

    meant to post this as a response to LordMike's comment.

    by bill e on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 06:34:16 PM PDT

•  Sports, wingnuts.....

  or Trivisonno.  Heh.

  Cleveland radio was all downhill from its highpoint of those classic ads by the "American.....and damn proud of it!"  car salesman guy.  Sorry, I can't see "cleveland" and "radio" next to one another without thinking of Bob Serpentini.

  by burrow owl on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 06:30:20 PM PDT

  •  American... and prooooouud of it!

    What a doofus!  I bet he's a bastard to work for, too.

    Thanks,

    Mike

    by LordMike on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 07:27:16 PM PDT

•  I had the same unpleasant shock in Boston

  The local air America affiliate suddenly became a Spanish oriented station without warning.

  • Bereft in Boston

  ---

  by ddriscoll on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 06:31:39 PM PDT

  •  It amazes me that in the most Democratic state

    in the nation, I could listen to Rush Limbaugh but not Ed Shultz or Rachel Maddow.

    by waitingtoderail on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 06:39:44 PM PDT

  •  I'm part of that audience

    Clearchannel deliberatly kept the power down with AirAmerica.  Reception was spotty but I listened anyway.  They boosted it after they axed AirAmerica.  For more info see the Boston progressive talk webpage

    by arcana on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 06:45:21 PM PDT

•  Air America Has Been Off In Boston...

  ...for several months at this point.  There two stations (one closer to Boston, one out in the MetroWest suburbs, both very weak signals) are now playing Spanish music.

  Air America is pretty much dead.  I don't think it's an indictment on liberal talk radio, per se, but rather on a station that really seemed like it couldn't get anything right from a financial standpoint.  Plus, I think radio hosts have to kind of organically gain an audience...which some of their hosts did of course...but others were kind of foisted on stations nationwide when perhaps they were not the very best choices out there.

  To be honest, I listen to NPR anyway when I'm listening to talk radio (well, and sports during baseball season).  Although I wish liberal talk radio was more available to both balance the other kind of talk radio content, but obviously also for people who would really eat it up, I don't personally care that much for partisan talk radio of any sort.  I'm not sure why.  I kind of liked Franken, but most people seemed to consider him rather boring, so I'm probably "out of the mainstream" as far as radio goes, anyway.

  by dyrrachium on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 06:40:26 PM PDT

  •  Well

    It still exists in DC, but it is on the weaker WWRC AM 1260 here. WMAL AM 630 is much stronger. WWRC fades out in places like Reston, where WMAL is still strong. I agree that Air America is probably dead, but it was a good start. Hopefully some other effort will develop a lessons learned report and not repeat the same mistakes again.

    by jiacinto on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 06:43:12 PM PDT

    •  I Sort Of Consider It Like...

      ...the false start where some valuable lessons are learned and some good things came out of it.  People forget it took rightwing talk awhile to get itself as truly established as it is today.  Sure, pseudo-populist kind-of-conservative talk's been around forever, but the kind of really partisan stuff took awhile to become so entrenched.

      Of course, I could be totally wrong and Air America itself will survive and strengthen enough to find it's way back into the markets it's currently losing.  I just happen to doubt it at this point.

      by dyrrachium on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 06:45:32 PM PDT

      •  Well

        In all honest many right-wing media publications have lost--and continue to lose--money. The Washington Times has rarely been profitable. Fox News lost a lot of money in its early years. Limbaugh wasn't profitable either for the first few years. A lot of the early conservative talk shows lost money. What seemed to have made talk radio powerful was Clinton.

        Air America could come out of it or another competetitor might emerge. I don't know. While I sometimes am pessisimistic, I also realize that the right didn't dominate talk radio overnight. It probably took several failed hosts and attempts before they finally because succesful. It will be the same with progressive/liberal talk radio.

        by jiacinto on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 06:48:39 PM PDT

    •  say it ain't so..........

      I listen to Sam Seder every morning from 9:00 to 12:00. It gets my day going and gets my blood percolating. I can't imagine giving that up. Sam, I can't quit you man!!!

      by Rumarhazzit on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 07:45:53 PM PDT

  •  The market just isn't there

    Liberals don't need the constant ego-massaging that a wingnut needs.  I'd rather listen to news or smart analysis; I can make fun of Bush all on my own, thanks.

    I've seen that sentiment enough that it seems that there just isn't a large enough demand for Air America.

    by burrow owl on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 06:46:15 PM PDT

    •  Personally, I Agree 100% (nt)

      by dyrrachium on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 06:48:09 PM PDT

    •  I agree that some Air America

      broadcasting was lame. Al Frankin had good guests.  He had Democratic leaders from the Senate and good authors,like Joe Conasen and almost every week he had Tom Oliphant from the Boston Globe. Ed Schultz is a lot like him, but has a faster pace.  However, as I said several of the DJ's are very good.  I also like Thom, and Rachel and learn a lot from them.  

      by hairspray on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 06:55:10 PM PDT

    •  No Demand for Liberal TV Either

      There's not a single mainstream liberal news program on TV.

      Some things are too obvious even to be obvious.

      by Gooserock on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 06:55:20 PM PDT

    •  Liberals also don't need

      the simplistic smack downs so common on the Savage, Boortz, Rush, et al programming.

      by hairspray on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 06:58:08 PM PDT

    •  Well...

      I think a lot of people were hoping that Air America would, in fact, offer "fair and balanced" news and smart analysis, instead of ego massaging.

      by Free Spirit on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 07:00:27 PM PDT

      •  I hate to rain on this parade, but...

        I've always found AAR to be informative, full of analysis, ego massaging - yes (but I like that, too) and very addictive. If I tried I could find find fault with it, but come on people, it's all we've got. Have some compassion for the young critter!

        by Rumarhazzit on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 07:51:12 PM PDT

        •  Not my parade; rain all you want

          I've never even listened to Air America, so I have no opinion. The opinions I've heard from the people I knew who were eagerly awaiting it's debut were "disappointing."  Occasionally a little less enthusiastic than that.

          by Free Spirit on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 10:54:07 PM PDT

      •  God Forbid

        that a liberal would take his or her own side in an argument.  

        Curse to hell an entire group--nay, an entire radio network--of liberals who actually have the spine to give to the right-wingers as good as we've been getting from them for TWENTY-SIX YEARS!

        The baby-boomer, flower-children model of liberalism is fading into irrelevance.  We've all seen how impotent it's been.

        The "New Left" of the 1960's is gasping for its last breath.  The old left of the 1930's is beginning to be new again as IT is what will lead to the restoration of real American values.

        by FDR Statue In Every County on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 08:13:05 PM PDT

        •  Don't look at me

          See my response to Rumar above.

          New left, old left?  Sounds more like reruns than progress.

          by Free Spirit on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 10:57:25 PM PDT

          •  Try listening to AAR and Nova M

            "New left, old left?  Sounds more like reruns than progress."
            I don't even know what that means.

            by FDR Statue In Every County on Thu Apr 05, 2007 at 04:31:40 PM PDT

    •  Ditto

      Did I just say that?

      The format of talk works so well with the nutjobs because they look at politics as sport.  That's all it is for most of them - like fantasy football - and the radio show works to develop with broad strokes the figures to choose from .
      The tone and discourse of many Sports talk jockey's actually emulate Rush et al and love the same confrontational spittle and pauses because it works so well with reptilian minds.

      by wobbledon on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 07:05:51 PM PDT

    •  What are you

      a ditto-head?  The Rapepublicans WISH there wasn't a large enough demand for Air America.  Rush Limbaugh got started in the 1980's.  He did not happen overnight.  Air America did.

      As much as the right-wing Rapepublicans and DLC'ers wish it would, liberal talk-radio is not going away.

      by FDR Statue In Every County on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 07:56:15 PM PDT

    •  But its like spinach in the healthy spinach days.

      Ya gotta eat it.

      by Bensdad on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 09:38:53 PM PDT

    •  Actually, I think you;re wrong

      Most of the shows are smart, entertaining and -- unlike right-wing talk radio -- very informative. A lot of people I know here in Cleveland listened to it. In fact, a lot of it was very informative and/or smart analysis, and a bit of making fun of Bush never hurts either.

      by anastasia p on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 10:20:56 PM PDT

  •  Thom Hartmann is very good

    He is very smart, well read and non confrontational. He broadcasts out of Oregon.  Ed Schultz is on the Jones Network, and frankly I don't know what that means because he is on the 'quake' radio station that starts with Stephanie Miller at 6 am , then Thom, then at noon Ed Schultz, and at 3 pm. Rachel Maddow.  I think Mike Malloy is on at 6pm.  Thom, Ed and Rachel are very good.  I miss NPR but I am keeping up with the quake so we don't lose them.  

    by hairspray on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 06:48:34 PM PDT

  •  I liked it alot

    I liked it because they didn't have to pretend to always give a "balanced" report when it was not warranted.  They would call something outrageous and despicable if it was outrageous and dispicable.  Like Foley and the attempted Republican coverup, wingnut talk show hosts advocating spewing all manner of hatred and bile, ect. These things are not properly covered with a  "balanced", dispassionate presentation.

    by arcana on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 06:59:38 PM PDT

  •  I think that its "death"

    is being engineered by the corporate entities that own the bulk of the radio stations and point up exactly why we need to keep screaming to the FCC about media consolidation, which something like 99% of respondents oppose. Rush Limbaugh didn't go on the air and immediately soar to the top of the ratings and make buckets of money. I don't think even Howard Stern did that. If you are kept off the air because the owners of a majority of radio outlets in this country oppose your politics, you never build an audience. Sorry ,I'm still seething from hearing that ad on TV for the right-wing talkers a little while ago. And I'm tired of people blaming Air America for not performing total miracles out of the box.

    by anastasia p on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 10:19:11 PM PDT

•  In Madison, Wis., a campaign saved Air America

  and Ed Schultz, etc., when the Clear Channel FM station was going to switch from progressive talk and go to all sports.
  Thousands of people signed petitions, marched, held meetings, got publicity and most importantly, rounded up new advertisers to support progressive talk programs on that station.  
  Advertisers themselves participated in the campaign. Station reps were invited to meetings.  All very civilized but very fervent.
  It worked! After several weeks, Clear Channel reversed itself.
  Please note there were no threats of a boycott. Instead, new advertisers were sought and brought on board. Old advertisers stressed that they had gotten good results from the progressive format.
  And the protesters vowed to give even more support to progressive talk's advertisers.
  Ed Schultz is coming to the city April 12 to do his show here and express his thanks.

  by Rosemary on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 06:44:04 PM PDT

  •  It helped to have the Capital Times' support

    Madison is lucky enough to have two daily newspapers.  The Capital Times, which calls itself Madison's Progresive Newspaper and lives up to that claim, helped keep the pressure on.

    But you're right.  The key was getting advertisers to step up.

    by newfie53523 on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 07:02:32 PM PDT

•  Yeah, Tom Hicks has piss poor taste in music

  and his ClearChannel monopolistic radio empire proves it.  

  Condolences to the free market of great music, lively DJs and interesting ideas. RIP. We may not be able to rescusitate it.

  Our... constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. Thurgood Marshall

  by bronte17 on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 06:47:01 PM PDT

•  Since Air America got new owners,

  I think it has already improved.  
  I'm cautiously optimistic about its future now.  Can't say I was before.  

  by Rosemary on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 06:47:52 PM PDT

  •  agreed n/t

    by newfie53523 on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 07:02:59 PM PDT

  •  What's the point...

    ...if no one can hear it?

    Thanks,

    Mike

    by LordMike on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 08:09:21 PM PDT

    •  Ratings, ad revenues count

      If an improved Air America goes up in the ratings in places where it is available, that would bolster its case as it seeks to expand.
      After all, radio stations are businesses, and profits are the ultimate bottom line. No owner is going to accept their ratings (ad revenues) being lower than they could be.

      by Rosemary on Thu Apr 05, 2007 at 11:23:22 AM PDT

•  Same in Columbus...

  I got XM radio to get it at work.  It was replaced by yet another wretched right station.  They had to have AA right out of the gate, and for some stupid reason they launched with a large number of comedians at the helm.  IMHO, the last thing they should have done was weaken their cred out of the gate with comics at the helm.  None of the GOP stations use comedians.  I could see Franken as he had some cred, but the others, not so much.    

  by Public Servant on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 06:50:49 PM PDT

•  But There's Too Many Liberal People in NE Ohio

  so the radio stations have to balance that out.

  by Gooserock on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 06:52:44 PM PDT

•  I am assuming that is snark

  I fled NE Ohio for Western Massachusetts and I will never go back, except to visit family!

  by mbzoltan on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 07:02:31 PM PDT

  •  Ditto that, good buddy n/t

    by burrow owl on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 07:10:24 PM PDT

  •  I am your jealous corollary

    Moved last year from WMass to Ohio (not voluntarily). I was missing the North Hadley Sugar Shack all during maple sugar season.

    by Seonachan on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 07:19:17 PM PDT

  •  Michigan's worse now

    believe it or not.  I'm fleeing Michigan for the huge undercurrent of discontent, to go back to NE Ohio where at least it seems they've got the GOP on the run.

    Michigan is getting much more scary with the nutjobs lighting their torches for Granholm's head on a platter.  A recall isn't that far-fetched.  This state could be a populist nightmare for all the employment woes and the UAW clinging on for dear life.  They smell blood in all quarters and this state, being the anomaly to the national trends could wind up a Republican bastion of the most vile kind.  A northern Texas without jobs.

    by wobbledon on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 07:23:05 PM PDT

    •  That's the not the sense I get...

      ...when I'm up there... granted, I visit the "industrial" sections of the state.. but it's wonderful to see vote democratic signs posted in cornfields.

      Thanks,

      Mike

      by LordMike on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 07:30:02 PM PDT

  •  No snark....

    ...Cuyahoga County reelected Dennis Kucinich by a 68% margin.  Youngstown and Canton are also very blue.  The outer ring suburbs, especially on the west side of the Cuyahoga, not so much....

    Thanks,

    Mike

    by LordMike on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 07:25:48 PM PDT

    •  And yet those Western suburbs

      elected both Dennis and, a little further out, Betty Sutton.

      by anastasia p on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 10:24:31 PM PDT

•  WKBF - Air America, Quad Cities

  Was bought by Randy Melchert, a graduate of Bob Jones University, last December.

  I listen online now.

  by DoubleBarrellBunnyAnger on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 07:20:55 PM PDT

•  I heard Ed Shultz talking about this

  the other day. He said that a lot of these stations are saying they can't sell advertising for progressive shows. He thought they were using it as an excuse and I have to agree. I don't think they are really pushing it, and they don't have too when they can just drop Big Eddie and throw in another sports show. After all, the sports show they added is probably one that is produced for 100 markets. When Clear Channel can produce one show for 100 different markets you don't have to sell much advertising to make it very profitable for the corporation.

  by theunreasonableHUman on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 07:30:56 PM PDT

  •  "Can't sell advertising"

    is a weak excuse when many of these companies with clusters of stations in a market are selling packages of advertising for a constellation of stations which they try to balance not to compete with each other. I suspect that when you get down to the lower rated stations for specialty audiences, there isn't that much difference in how much advertising they can sell and it's become as you say a decision based on how cheaply they can get programming. Clear Channel and its ilk are the blight on radio.

    by anastasia p on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 10:27:00 PM PDT

  •  Conservative owners and 2008

    Clear Channel knows Ohio is one of the most important swing states.

    They don't want anything but pro-Republican views to be aired during the 2008 election season.  

    by diana04 on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 10:38:31 PM PDT

•  NPR will be next...targeted with Internet radio

  'Fighting for Air' Author on the Public Airwaves

  News & Notes, February 13, 2007 · Author Eric Klinenberg talks about the future of radio with Farai Chideya. Klinenberg's new book is Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America's Media

  .

  http://www.npr.org/...

  by Pink Lady on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 07:39:27 PM PDT

•  What to do

  Below is a resolution that will be reviewed at the California State Democratic Party convention in San diego later this month.  You may wish to use the language below and insert the name of your club or central committee and push this issue in your state.  

  A Resolution in Support of the Free Flow of Information

  WHEREAS radio and television stations license holders are granted a public trust for a fixed period of time to broadcast over the public airways and stations are licensed for the public interest, convenience, and necessity, and

  WHEREAS ownership of multiple stations in a single market as well as ownership of multiple information distribution systems and/or simultaneous providing of content constitute a restraint of trade that is harmful to the public interest, and

  WHEREAS vertical integration of an industry is detrimental to free enterprise and the free market,

  Therefore, be it resolved that [insert the name of your group here] supports creation of federal legislation and Federal Communications Commission regulations that limit:

  • the number of broadcast stations that may be owned by one company to no more than one AM radio station, one FM radio station, and one television station in a given market -- with no ownership of newspapers within that same market, and
  • to no more than 5 AM radio stations, 5 FM radio stations, and 5 television stations in the United States, that may be owned and/or operated by a single licensee, and
  • the assignment of broadcast licenses to only United States citizens and/or companies

  and

  be it resolved that [insert the name of your club or group here] supports creation of federal anti-trust legislation that limits a person, company, or organization to either only (1) own or operate broadcast stations, or (2) own or operate information distribution systems, or (3) provide content -- that is operate a web site and/or create and produce broadcast programs -- to broadcast stations or information distribution systems.

  by Airpower on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 07:43:31 PM PDT

•  ohio blackout

  There is no progressive/liberal media in Cincinnati Ohio.  The only thing left is NPR.  In order to get progressive media, you must go online.  Nova M is out of Arizona where you can get Mike Malloy.  Air America.com, there is a good lineup too and the mic92.com out of Wisconsin, I listen to Stephanie Miller and Ed Schultz.

  This is the only way I can listen.  Join some of these stations and you can podcast.

  I usually listen to cd's or npr in my car and my favorites like Thom Hartmann, Rachel Maddow and Mike Malloy while reading Daily Kos and Huffington Post.  

  I listen at work all day long.

  by Paddy999 on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 07:44:40 PM PDT

•  Air Ameica Was Ameteurish

  Overly New York-centric, non radio people trying to do shows. Some of the

  best profesional liberal radio people such as Peter Werbe, Peter B. Colllins,

  Richard Bay did not have national shows . Where as amateurs such as

  Franken, Janeane Garofolo, got shows. Franken was such an ego maniac he

  wouldn't take more than two calls per three hours, he had to be in total control,

  good guests though. Randi Rhodes has to have the most abominable voice this

  side of Michael Savage, she literally drives me to Hannity with her caterwauling,

  I don't know how she stays on the air. Ed Schulz is politically much more middle

  of the road than me, but he has a great show, plenty of calls.

  by frandor55 on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 08:52:24 PM PDT

  •  Well, I disagree

    I found almost all the programming to be entertaining, informative and far more professional than the little right-wing radio I've been able to tolerate hearing.  You clearly expect some kind of absolute perfection and tailoring to your personal tastes, and you're never going to get that.

    by anastasia p on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 10:29:22 PM PDT

•  That sucks.

  North Central Ohio (and I mean very north, from west of Toledo to Huron) still has WDTW in Detroit, but that's it, baby.

  by tbetz on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 09:04:32 PM PDT

•  When people listen.....

  ...until their ears bleed and buy every single silly thing advertised on Air America. I think Air America is becoming Pare America. I am not sure if this is because its little stations have been targeted for buy-out, or if this is part of a larger plan. I listen religiously -----via podcast. Paid for it. It's worth it to listn to Young Turks and Rachel Maddow while walking the dog. I still stay Rachel is an undersung radio host who could break out into TV if she would play a little ball, and if the opportunity presents herself. She could out Olbermann Olbermann. And her suits would be even snappier.

  by Bensdad on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 09:37:02 PM PDT