Newsweek article on Air America

A. Joseph Ross joe@attorneyross.com
Mon Dec 18 00:38:14 EST 2006


On 17 Dec 2006 at 21:03, Bob Nelson wrote:

> Newsweek has an article talking about the tumult at Air America. Not
> only were they building up huge amounts of debt, but there was no
> network "program director" to handle clashing producers and hosts;
> just when they started to make headway, some of their most popular
> shows were cancelled, angering listeners, and they had no realistic
> business model. Michael Harrison of "Talkers" is quoted as saying that
> liberal talk radio still can fly, but as for AAR,  "If they'd hired
> broadcasters instead of a bunch of comedians, they would have had a
> chance of succeeding."

Interesting article.  But I've never heard why those shows were 
cancelled.  Anyone know?

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