Yup, guess the left will definitely need that Fairness Doctrine…
President Obama may be riding high in Washington, but OBAMA 1260 is not. The area’s only progressive talk station is changing formats, dropping such syndicated liberal hosts as Ed Schultz, Stephanie Miller and Bill Press in favor of financial news, starting next week.
Program Director Greg Tantum says he thought the station could work because of enthusiasm over Obama, but that ratings collapsed to a level that could not be measured after the election.
That’s pretty low.
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The libs don’t need talk radio, they’ll cede that media niche to conservative listeners of Limbaugh and Hannity… until they can get the Fairness Doctrine passed.
Oh yeah, if memory serves me correctly, Tom Daschle was a host on Air America for a while. He couldn’t have possibly made any money there. I’d wager the IRS owed him money for his time there.
From what I understand, Air America here in New York gets terrible ratings and the hosts change as often as Obama changed positions during the campaign.
Somewhere Rush, Sean and Mark are all having a nice laugh.
Their ratings dropped because they’re just not spending enough money. Time to get out the federal checkbook and make sure that Obama radio does not fail: he’s too big to fail, you know.
and not surprising
I call this one a “burnout”