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"dxAce" wrote in message ... What's even more pathetic is they're going to run him again in '08. Cool... it was fun once, it'll be fun again! Maybe this time we'll find out if he was actually dishonourably discharged at one time. That'd be a real hoot. Let the fun begin! WASHINGTON - Sen. John F. Kerry tapped campaign funds for Red Sox tickets and to pay nearly $300 in overdue Boston parking tickets in March, records show. Kerry's Senate campaign committee wrote a $287 check to the City of Boston Parking Clerk on March 31, 2005. The Bay State senator listed ``travel expense'' as the purpose for the expenditure. Kerry leased a car for campaign-related travel in Massachusetts that was cited for about a half-dozen parking tickets in Boston. Most of the tickets were issued in October and November 2003 and not paid until more than 15 months later in March 2005 after accruing penalty fees. ``They were leftover tickets we only found out about when we closed out the lease,'' Kerry spokeswoman Jenny Backus said. ``The car was used for the Senate campaign by staffers and volunteers.'' Kerry, meanwhile, used presidential campaign funds for a $3,150 tab for Boston Red Sox tickets in July when he threw out the first pitch at Fenway Park before the Democratic National Convention. A Federal Election Commission spokesman said congressmen are entitled to pay for parking tickets and other expenses from their campaign funds as long as they were ``campaign-related.'' Other members of the Bay State congressional delegation also reported some novel spending this year. U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-South Boston) spent $1,231 on makeup services during a two-week stretch in March, according to his most recent FEC report. ``Congresssman Lynch had a pretty intensive round of TV interviews due to the baseball steroid hearings, the Big Dig hearings and his Iraq trip,'' Lynch spokesman Matt Ferraguto said. |
"David" wrote in message ... On Tue, 3 May 2005 13:22:34 -0500, "MnMikew" wrote: wrote in message roups.com... The story is almost a year old: Sun Jul 18th, 2004 at 22:51:39 PDT Here are the CURRENT ratings: http://www.radioandrecords.com/rrratings Not as pretty a picture is it????? Why do you think he posted it? The NEW ratings would have screwed up his agenda. The link was in a contemporary article. It was an accident. As usual, you missed the big picture while getting hung-up like a tweeker on something insignificant. The big picture is AA is failing. You're the one with the hang-up. |
"MnMikew" wrote in message ... "David" wrote in message ... On Tue, 3 May 2005 13:22:34 -0500, "MnMikew" wrote: wrote in message roups.com... The story is almost a year old: Sun Jul 18th, 2004 at 22:51:39 PDT Here are the CURRENT ratings: http://www.radioandrecords.com/rrratings Not as pretty a picture is it????? Why do you think he posted it? The NEW ratings would have screwed up his agenda. The link was in a contemporary article. It was an accident. As usual, you missed the big picture while getting hung-up like a tweeker on something insignificant. The big picture is AA is failing. You're the one with the hang-up. It is not failing. It is very viable, but it is not the major factor in most US markets that conservative talk is, mostly due tot he fact that in very few markets is the programming on a competitive technical facility. |
"David" wrote in message ... On Wed, 04 May 2005 17:03:50 GMT, "David Eduardo" wrote: "David" wrote in message . .. On 3 May 2005 18:31:54 -0700, wrote: here is a link to the current ratings: http://www.radioandratings.com/rrratings AAR's ratings are in the crapper. ???? They are only on 14 hours a day. And there are only 13 significant ratings hours a day. What do the free ratings on randr dot comm mean? 6 AM to Midnight, M-Sun. The sales numbers are mostly 6 AM to 7 PM, M-F in specific adult demos. |
"David Eduardo" wrote in message m... The big picture is AA is failing. You're the one with the hang-up. It is not failing. It is very viable, but it is not the major factor in most US markets that conservative talk is, mostly due tot he fact that in very few markets is the programming on a competitive technical facility. Viable means capable (or possibility) of surviving, but not guaranteed to thrive. In the cab business, as with many others: "Money talks and BS walks." The power brokers in many markets in the radio biz apparnetly don't care to jump onto AA, even though there are abundant facilities available for the right formatting fit. AA doesn't appear to fit in, and its revenue producing and prior accounts payable history also speak for themselves. |
"Gary Schnabl" wrote in message ... "David Eduardo" wrote in message m... The big picture is AA is failing. You're the one with the hang-up. It is not failing. It is very viable, but it is not the major factor in most US markets that conservative talk is, mostly due tot he fact that in very few markets is the programming on a competitive technical facility. Viable means capable (or possibility) of surviving, but not guaranteed to thrive. And AA is very viable. They already are at the affiliate mark that will sustain them, albeit not with astounding, windfall profits. In the cab business, as with many others: "Money talks and BS walks." The power brokers in many markets in the radio biz apparnetly don't care to jump onto AA, even though there are abundant facilities available for the right formatting fit. Actually, there are very few facilities available for such a format. The need is for a good signal, ownership which is not format-specific and underperformance of the good signal. In other words, a strong AM that is not owned by a company that, for example, only does Spanish, and a facility that is not profitable now. There are very few good, competitive AM signals in the US that are not already utilized in a good manner and quite profitable. In fact, most markets have only a couple of full market AM signals (DC has none, for example) and these are uniformly committed to a profitable format. What is left is the mid to lower tier of staitons, many of which are more profitable in ethnic or religious programming than they could be, given the signal-to-ratings expectations as a competitive talker. AA doesn't appear to fit in, and its revenue producing and prior accounts payable history also speak for themselves. They had one bad two-month period at start up. they changed management and got a more solid backer than the guys from Guam. They are on a firm foundation now. |
On Wed, 4 May 2005 17:49:55 -0400, "Gary Schnabl"
wrote: The power brokers in many markets in the radio biz apparnetly don't care to jump onto AA, even though there are abundant facilities available for the right formatting fit. AA doesn't appear to fit in, and its revenue producing and prior accounts payable history also speak for themselves. Near half the Air America affiliates are owned by Clear Channel. Nobody brokers more power than they do. |
"David Eduardo" wrote in message ... There are very few good, competitive AM signals in the US that are not already utilized in a good manner and quite profitable. In fact, most markets have only a couple of full market AM signals (DC has none, for example) and these are uniformly committed to a profitable format. What is left is the mid to lower tier of staitons, many of which are more profitable in ethnic or religious programming than they could be, given the signal-to-ratings expectations as a competitive talker. AA doesn't appear to fit in, and its revenue producing and prior accounts payable history also speak for themselves. They had one bad two-month period at start up. they changed management and got a more solid backer than the guys from Guam. They are on a firm foundation now. Let's take Limbaugh, for example, when he started 17 years ago. He had 58 outlets to begin with in an uncharted sea of AM stations with an unproven format - and daytime at that. AA still has fewer outlets than Limbaugh started with. When you consider the added alternative distractions that didn't exist 17 years ago, he's still doing very well. And it's also not all due to Limbaugh. When he's away, the ratings for that program still hold up for his replacement hosts. While he was away for some time due to his problem(s), the listeners were still there, I've heard. Maybe you have the ratings for those weeks. If so, make mention of them. A sidebar - Does it really matter who's at the helm for the particular AA shows for a particular time slot? Would it matter if the ex-mayor of Cincy did Franken's show or vice versa, for example? However, the real question is how well would AA do in the solid red areas of the nation that do not have an occasional oasis of blue, such as the Research Triangle in North Carolina or Austin TX? The conservative programs draw well in the traditionally blue areas that are also good radio markets. Why doesn't AA have an actual edge in their "own" backyards? |
"David" wrote in message ... On Wed, 4 May 2005 17:49:55 -0400, "Gary Schnabl" wrote: The power brokers in many markets in the radio biz apparnetly don't care to jump onto AA, even though there are abundant facilities available for the right formatting fit. AA doesn't appear to fit in, and its revenue producing and prior accounts payable history also speak for themselves. Near half the Air America affiliates are owned by Clear Channel. Nobody brokers more power than they do. The financial worth of the super conglomerates is not what was once imagined, and many stations are now on the chopping block at Viacom. It costs CC next to nothing to provide AA's programming, and a little of something is better than a lot of nothing. |
"David" wrote in message ... On Wed, 4 May 2005 17:49:55 -0400, "Gary Schnabl" wrote: The power brokers in many markets in the radio biz apparnetly don't care to jump onto AA, even though there are abundant facilities available for the right formatting fit. AA doesn't appear to fit in, and its revenue producing and prior accounts payable history also speak for themselves. Near half the Air America affiliates are owned by Clear Channel. Nobody brokers more power than they do. Actually, less than 20% of the AA affiliates are owned by Clear Channel. |
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