"Frank Dresser" wrote in message
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"David Eduardo" wrote in message
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"Frank Dresser" wrote in message
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They paid a million bucks to the stations in Chicago and Los Angeles
for
almost nothing.

They got what they paid for, about a month of 24/7 airtime.



I was refering to the check stop incident. Evan Cohen said Air America
bought a million dollars worth of time on the LA station for a couple of
months before Air America started up. He also claimed Arthur Liu sold the
same time to someone else.

In effect, Air America was unable to provide programming, and defaulted on
the agreement. The station owner contracted with someone else to maintain
programming on the air till such time as AA was ready to provide it. The AA
folks, not aware of the deal they signed, stopped payment on a check and
Liu, the owner, cut them off. All legal. The AA people simply bit the hand
that fed them.

"David Eduardo" wrote in message
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In effect, Air America was unable to provide programming, and defaulted on
the agreement. The station owner contracted with someone else to maintain
programming on the air till such time as AA was ready to provide it. The
AA
folks, not aware of the deal they signed, stopped payment on a check and
Liu, the owner, cut them off. All legal. The AA people simply bit the hand
that fed them.



OK, but I wasn't trying to say that Air America acted in a criminal way,
only that they were ****ing away their money and generally acting
incompetently. I'll correct myself further and say:

They paid a million bucks to the station in Los Angeles for almost nothing.

Because, as far as I know, Chicago didn't get involved until the check stop
incident. The million bucks to LA was already deposited, and the stopped
check was for actual Air America broadcast time.

Frank Dresser