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FatDomDaddy -> RE: So long Air America and don't worry... (1/27/2010 6:26:28 PM)
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FR to get away from Vietnam and back to topic...
I am really getting a kick on the whole "Republicans/Conservative/Worsepeopleinworldhistory being tagged as brain washed sycophants who need to get their soma from demi-gods while Democrats/Liberial/Mostlovingandequalinworldhistory are learned independant thinkers who seek to take the world in and make up their own minds.
It shows a complete and zero comprehension of Television and Radio and how it works in a free and open society. Not to mention the right of Freedom of Speech.
Even more humorous have been regular posters who feign knowledge of Air America even though that radio network has literally been one of the most active thread topics on these Collarme message boards since even BEFORE the network began airing!
And I do not want to hear anything about money... AA was backed by millions of dollars setting up and it recruited large paying sponsors. NOBODY LISTENED BECAUSE THEIR NETWORK DID NOT ENTERTAIN OR INFORM ON ANY MEANINGFUL LEVEL.
Democrats found it boring, Liberals found it boring, Republicans, Conservatives, Moderates, Socialists, Communists, Fascists, even their relativities found it boring.
One need only look at their ratings and their demographics. AA's ratings were paltry at best and their demographics were homogenous. When one looks at ratings for Rush, Hannity, O'Reilly, et al, you find a huge diversity, in race, in sex, in age, in income, in ideology, in faith or lack of it. Even on TV, look at the FOX news thread, 30% of self described DEMOCRATS polled stated that FOX was the most trusted news source. Why, because they found in it a better product.
Conservative talk radio’s biggest asset is the diversity and the size of that diversity of its audience.
Before the message haters jump up and down yelling “documentation, documentation” all the proof you need is Air America’s own failure. People didn’t listen, Sponsors didn’t buy. That is not happening in the rest of the talk radio world and even if YOU do not listen.
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