[lbo-talk] Air America Takeover of WLIB

J Cullen jcullen at austin.rr.com
Sun Mar 28 21:45:19 PST 2004


Gee, you'd think if the broadcast media really were liberal, Franken wouldn't have any trouble finding radio affiliates without his producers having to buy time.


>http://www.medialifemagazine.com/news2004/mar04/mar22/4_thurs/news4thursday.html
>But a wee peep
>from liberal network
>
>Starts next week with affiliates in just three markets
>
>via, http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/corner.asp
>SUPER-PUBLICITY FOR THIS? [Tim Graham]
>
>Speaking of Rush Limbaugh, he had to have hundreds of stations
>before the media even noticed him. The new liberal radio effort is
>all publicity and no stations. My publicist pal Katie Wright noticed
>that the O'Franken gang has THREE -- count 'em, tres -- stations to
>start with, and none of them are exactly high-watt blowtorches of
>radio magnetism.
>
>The Washington Post and Howard Kurtz have done maybe four or five
>promotional articles by now (and Kurtz will promote them on his CNN
>show "Reliable Sources" this weekend). But you could argue that in
>Washington at least, it's conservative talk radio that's still on
>the rise. It's doing so well at WMAL (Rush and Sean all afternoon)
>that they moved out the nice life advice of Dr. Laura and moved in
>NRO stalwart (no relation, folks) Michael Graham. Laura Ingraham is
>on air here in DC at 9 on WTNT, doing some smart work on the media
>in the last week. It's pretty funny that the Democrats pumping up
>O'Franken radio can't seem to buy a time slot in the nation's
>capital....
>Posted at 09:31 AM
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>Michael Pugliese
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