Unfortunately, they have become a lot more click-baity during the past year as well.

In rural areas, talk radio and radio, generally, is a right-wing, extremist cesspool. A change will do them good.

Better late than never, I suppose, but too bad our side didn't do this decades ago to counter all the right-wing bullshit broadcast over the airwaves.

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Apparently I had a lot of company, because not enough people tuned in.

For some reason our side doesn’t do radio all that well. I don’t know if the message doesn’t translate well to the medium, but I can’t point to any liberal radio program with the success anywhere near any of the right wing talking heads.

It’s frustrating.

Hysteria and hate evokes emotions that drive people’s actions. Rational thought has never been able to compete. We are emotional animals. Sadly.

Brian Lehrer Show in NYC is very successful and is wholly logical.

It just has to be done right.

Most small (and large) business owners lean Republican, so were more likely to advertise on Rush and his ilk than Air America.

will reduce the need for advertising dollars.

POD saving America one podcast at a time and for Vote Save America supporting Democrats everywhere. Support them if you can. Some very good programs.

Thanks for telling us about Crooked Media.

What Ever Happened to Air America?

To make matters worse, the network was beset by a raft of off-air problems almost from its inception: a charity-loan scandal, contract disputes with affiliates and employees, continual changes in ownership and management, and a 2006 bankruptcy. As Air America's fifth birthday approaches, it seems fair to ask: is the concept of a liberal talk-radio network dead? And why didn't it take off as its supporters had hoped?Air America is in fact still soldiering on, and when I spoke to the three men who are now running it—chairman and lead investor Charlie Kireker, C.E.O. Bennett Zier, and head of programming Bill Hess—they all voiced their optimism about the company's future. But in retrospect the spirit of 2004 seems laughably bullish. The network's trouble began two weeks after its April Fool's Day launch...

Everyone is getting automobiles with the ability to listen to satellites and podcasts over the Internet. I can see investing in podcasts services, but AM/FM terrestrial radio is dying. YMMV. IMHO.

I’m sure he knows what is or isn’t a good investment. There’s a reason he’s a billionaire.