According to Arbitron: D.C. Air America outlet .eq. zero
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Since I cut out my subscription to the Washington Post, the daily standard bearer for the liberal main stream media, I missed a little nugget in their radio/television/media column. I'm a bit surprised that it wasn't mentioned in another site that I frequent, but then again, given the very obvious political leanings and complainings at that site (www.dcrtv.com), I'm not that surprised that there wasn't a mention of this news there.
With a nod of my baseball cap towards vanhelsing's great site: http://www.moonbattery.com/ and to the original source, The Washington Post, who buried the news down at the end of a long column mostly talking about Howard Stern's ever shrinking audience as he gets closer and closer to making the big leap over to Sirius Satellite Radio after the first of the year, there was this very interesting little bit of news over the last several months (reported in the last week):
Air America, the liberal talk network carried on WWRC-AM (1260), went from bad to nonexistent. After WWRC recorded a mere fraction of a rating point in the spring with syndicated shows from the likes of lefty talkers Al Franken, Janeane Garofalo and Stephanie Miller, Arbitron couldn't detect a measurable listenership for the station this time around.
Original WP article can be found here: The Washington Post: Shock Jock's Audience Is Beating Him to the Door
VanHelsing's site can be found here: http://www.moonbattery.com/ (worth a visit if you are interested in rightward leaning articles).
I will say I can't think of a nicer (sarcasm meters should be registering "dripping") group of people than the flamers at Air America to have their ratings go completely into the dumper.
Actually, VanHelsing probably said it best here:
Here we see one of the many pitfalls of capitalism, from the left-wing point of view. Give people a choice, and they just might chose wisely.
With a nod of my baseball cap towards vanhelsing's great site: http://www.moonbattery.com/ and to the original source, The Washington Post, who buried the news down at the end of a long column mostly talking about Howard Stern's ever shrinking audience as he gets closer and closer to making the big leap over to Sirius Satellite Radio after the first of the year, there was this very interesting little bit of news over the last several months (reported in the last week):
Air America, the liberal talk network carried on WWRC-AM (1260), went from bad to nonexistent. After WWRC recorded a mere fraction of a rating point in the spring with syndicated shows from the likes of lefty talkers Al Franken, Janeane Garofalo and Stephanie Miller, Arbitron couldn't detect a measurable listenership for the station this time around.
Original WP article can be found here: The Washington Post: Shock Jock's Audience Is Beating Him to the Door
VanHelsing's site can be found here: http://www.moonbattery.com/ (worth a visit if you are interested in rightward leaning articles).
I will say I can't think of a nicer (sarcasm meters should be registering "dripping") group of people than the flamers at Air America to have their ratings go completely into the dumper.
Actually, VanHelsing probably said it best here:
Here we see one of the many pitfalls of capitalism, from the left-wing point of view. Give people a choice, and they just might chose wisely.
