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Air America Deflating
By Matt Margolis | April 14, 2004
It feels so good to be right:
After just two weeks on the air, Air America Radio, the fledgling liberal talk-radio network featuring Al Franken and Janeane Garofalo, appears to have encountered serious cash-flow problems.
The CHICAGO TRIBUNE is developing a story, insiders tell DRUDGE, on how the network was pulled off the air this morning in Chicago and Los Angeles, the network’s second- and third-largest markets, because, the owner of both stations said, the network bounced a check and owes him more than $1 million! A charge the network strongly denies.
A Chicago source familiar with the situation said a Multicultural representative showed up at WNTD’s offices Wednesday morning, kicked out Air America’s lone staffer overseeing the network’s feed to the station from New York, switched over to a Spanish-language feed, and changed the locks on the doors…
Air America filed a complaint Wednesday in New York state Supreme Court charging Multicultural with breaching their contract and seeking an injunction to force Multicultural to restore the Air America broadcast on both stations.
Al Franken, the Resident Idiot of Liberal Talk Radio must be soiling his pants now. I said before that Air America would be at it’s strongest in the first two weeks. Well, it looks like it wasn’t strong enough to keep a few checks from bouncing. Perhaps a Soros bail out will occur, but that won’t prevent the inevitable failure of Franken’s radio wet dream.
Oh…
… and not to gloat (too much)… to all the liberals who didn’t believe me: “I told you so.”
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April 15th, 2004 at 7:44 am
Matt, you should check out Air America’s latest “press release”. They sure are a bastion of professionalism aren’t they? *guffaw* If they take that “press release down, American RealPolitik has a pdf version.
April 15th, 2004 at 12:47 pm
professional indeed. That has the stench of Al Franken all over it.
April 16th, 2004 at 5:17 pm
I’m not interested in liberal talk radio, but you Bush supporters seem most concerned with anyone who is anti-Bush. I know it irks you to know Howard Stern is still on the air, but he is right to criticize a president who hems and haws and stumbles when asked if he would do anything differently in Iraq.
April 16th, 2004 at 5:18 pm
who gives a shit about howard stern?
not me.
April 16th, 2004 at 5:48 pm
Who is Howard for us to be concerned with? Seriously?
April 16th, 2004 at 11:38 pm
Who is this Howard Stern you speak of?
The Air America stuff is funny. I’ve heard the ads on XM Radio and I laugh every time. I wonder what the listening stats on XM Radio is for that station?
April 23rd, 2004 at 5:40 pm
If you don’t care about Howard, why do you want him off the air?
April 23rd, 2004 at 5:52 pm
who is say we do?
April 23rd, 2004 at 6:36 pm
I dont’ care about Howard Stern. Never listened/watched or anything. doesn’t bother me.
May 17th, 2004 at 6:41 pm
this will be no better than Rush, I’m sure. Idiots from both sides of the aisle! I’m voting for myself in ‘04.