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Saturday, May 08, 2004

The liberal US talk radio network Air America may have been set up by
comedian and author Al Franken, but not many of its staff are smiling this
weekend. Instead, they're coming to terms with the latest crisis to hit the
fledgling network: the resignation on Thursday of its chairman and vice
chairman. The departures of Evan Cohen and his investment partner Rex
Sorensen came just a week after the company announced that co-founder Mark
Walsh had stepped down as CEO to take a smaller role at the company, and
that David Logan had been replaced as head of programming. Neither Cohen nor
Sorensen would comment or give a reason for their decision. Company
president Jon Sinton was not returning calls yesterday either.

Air America has been plagued by problems since it launched on 31st March.
After just two weeks on the air, a dispute with a business partner led to
Air America's programming being pulled from stations in Chicago and Los
Angeles. The network was later restored in Chicago, but the company said it
was looking for a new business partner there.

Posted by Andy Sennitt @ 09:42 UTC