I just caught this...the comments on that Kos thread are priceless.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/26/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">mike larkin</b> <<a href="mailto:mike_larkin2001@yahoo.com">mike_larkin2001@yahoo.com
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="direction: ltr;"><div>kos responds:</div> <div> </div> <div>
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<span class="q"><br><br><b><i>Doug Henwood <<a href="mailto:dhenwood@panix.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">dhenwood@panix.com</a>></i></b> wrote:</span></div><div style="direction: ltr;">
</div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px;"></blockquote></div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span class="q">[Bookscan captures about 2/3-3/4 of all book sales, so the figures
<br>are probably a little better. But people who read blogs are generally <br>post-book, no? And if AA has an average quarter hour of 27,900, it's <br>still doing almost four times better than WBAI!]<br><br><br><br></span>
</div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span class="e" id="q_10ad819805e3f648_4">'PROGRESSIVE' MEDIA STALLS: 'AIR AMERICA' IN AUDIENCE PLUNGE NYC, <br>'DAILY KOS' BOOK SELLS ONLY 3,600 COPIES<br>Wed Apr 26 2006 11:39:51 ET<br>
<br>Left-leaning new media has hit turbulence at the marketplace, newly <br>released stats show.<br><br>A book hyped by major media as documenting a progressive
revolution <br>of "blogs" and political power, DAILY KOS 'CRASHING THE GATE,' has <br>sold only 3,630 copies since its release last month, according to <br>NIELSEN's BOOKSCAN.<br><br>[NIELSEN claims only 2,062 copies of DAILY KOS have been purchased at
<br>the retail level; the rest coming through 'discount' outlets.]<br><br>Meanwhile, the just released radio Winter Book [Jan-Mar 2006] from <br>ARBITRON shows AIR AMERICA in New York City losing more than a third <br>of its audience -- in the past year!
<br><br>Among all listeners 12+, it was a race to the bottom for AIR AMERICA <br>and WLIB as mid-days went from a 1.6 share during winter 2005 to a <br>1.0 share winter 2006.<br><br>During PM drive, host Randi Rhodes plunged to 27,900 listeners every
<br>quarter hour, finishing 25th place in her time slot, down from 60,900 <br>listeners every quarter hour in the fall.<br><br>A network source says the radio ratings released today do not reflect <br>the overall growth of the
broadcast.<br><br>"The demos are better, and listeners trust AIR AMERICA to give them <br>the real truth on issues and the Bush presidency," says the insider.<br><br>Developing...<br><br>___________________________________
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