"For example, among listeners from 25 and 54, whom advertisers covet, the
network estimates it drew an average listener share (roughly a percentage of
listeners) of 3.4 on WLIB in April, from 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. on weekdays,
according to the company's extrapolation of figures provided by Arbitron for
the three months ended in April. (Arbitron, which does not provide ratings
in monthly increments, said the network's methodology appeared sound,
although such figures were too raw to translate to numbers of listeners.) "

"By contrast, according to Air America's figures, WABC-AM drew an average
share of 3.2 during the same period in April for the same age group. That
time period includes the three hours in which Mr. Limbaugh was pitted head
to head against Mr. Franken"

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0531-08.htm

Looks like I was wrong about Air America's ratings, at least at the start
up. I didn't much like most of the hosts(although I thought Franken was OK)
and I thought they would turn off listeners. Well, Air America says more
people in the New York area listened to Franken, rather than Limbaugh.

The article is mostly about Air America's rotten business start-up.

Frank Dresser

- Quite true; Frank,
Air America is quite good..
Have a freind ( Veteran, Korean war) Listens to it regurlarly.

"Morning Sedition" where Mark has " Recovery Corner"
and reaches out to " Brother George Bush " with tips and hints:
"The Presidential Palm Pilot"and
- The daily " Liberal Agenda ' a fax coming in From The Streisand Compound
are all good schticks..

- entertaining,
Like watching Cassius Clay Box; Flurry of direct hits,
then suddenly floats back . .
Leaving the opposition stunned and bewildered.

Air America's a very good station.

Dan ( Running a Sangean DT -110 and doing 10,000 steps a day )





In article , "Frank
Dresser" writes:



"For example, among listeners from 25 and 54, whom advertisers covet, the
network estimates it drew an average listener share (roughly a percentage of
listeners) of 3.4 on WLIB in April, from 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. on weekdays,
according to the company's extrapolation of figures provided by Arbitron for
the three months ended in April. (Arbitron, which does not provide ratings
in monthly increments, said the network's methodology appeared sound,
although such figures were too raw to translate to numbers of listeners.) "

"By contrast, according to Air America's figures, WABC-AM drew an average
share of 3.2 during the same period in April for the same age group. That
time period includes the three hours in which Mr. Limbaugh was pitted head
to head against Mr. Franken"

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0531-08.htm

Looks like I was wrong about Air America's ratings, at least at the start
up. I didn't much like most of the hosts(although I thought Franken was OK)
and I thought they would turn off listeners. Well, Air America says more
people in the New York area listened to Franken, rather than Limbaugh.

The article is mostly about Air America's rotten business start-up.

Frank Dresser

Diverd4777 wrote:

- Quite true; Frank,
Air America is quite good..
Have a freind ( Veteran, Korean war) Listens to it regurlarly.

"Morning Sedition" where Mark has " Recovery Corner"
and reaches out to " Brother George Bush " with tips and hints:
"The Presidential Palm Pilot"and
- The daily " Liberal Agenda ' a fax coming in From The Streisand Compound
are all good schticks..

- entertaining,
Like watching Cassius Clay Box; Flurry of direct hits,
then suddenly floats back . .
Leaving the opposition stunned and bewildered.

Air America's a very good station.

Dan ( Running a Sangean DT -110 and doing 10,000 steps a day )

Keep it up! You'll make it to Havana before you know it, and you'll feel right at
home!

Tell Fidel we all said hello...

On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 20:38:28 -0400, dxAce
wrote:



Diverd4777 wrote:

- Quite true; Frank,
Air America is quite good..
Have a freind ( Veteran, Korean war) Listens to it regurlarly.

"Morning Sedition" where Mark has " Recovery Corner"
and reaches out to " Brother George Bush " with tips and hints:
"The Presidential Palm Pilot"and
- The daily " Liberal Agenda ' a fax coming in From The Streisand Compound
are all good schticks..

- entertaining,
Like watching Cassius Clay Box; Flurry of direct hits,
then suddenly floats back . .
Leaving the opposition stunned and bewildered.

Air America's a very good station.

Dan ( Running a Sangean DT -110 and doing 10,000 steps a day )

Keep it up! You'll make it to Havana before you know it, and you'll feel right at
home!

Tell Fidel we all said hello...


Steve, Could you pretend to be a Democrat for one day and argue the
"left's" point of view. It would make for some incredible threads.
I'm asking you - please.

B Evhart wrote:

On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 20:38:28 -0400, dxAce
wrote:



Diverd4777 wrote:

- Quite true; Frank,
Air America is quite good..
Have a freind ( Veteran, Korean war) Listens to it regurlarly.

"Morning Sedition" where Mark has " Recovery Corner"
and reaches out to " Brother George Bush " with tips and hints:
"The Presidential Palm Pilot"and
- The daily " Liberal Agenda ' a fax coming in From The Streisand Compound
are all good schticks..

- entertaining,
Like watching Cassius Clay Box; Flurry of direct hits,
then suddenly floats back . .
Leaving the opposition stunned and bewildered.

Air America's a very good station.

Dan ( Running a Sangean DT -110 and doing 10,000 steps a day )

Keep it up! You'll make it to Havana before you know it, and you'll feel right at
home!

Tell Fidel we all said hello...


Steve, Could you pretend to be a Democrat for one day and argue the
"left's" point of view. It would make for some incredible threads.
I'm asking you - please.

Unlike a few others, I never 'pretend' to be anything.

What you read, is what you get ...

.... or something like that.

Steve
Holland, MI
Drake R7, R8 and R8B

http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm

From: dxAce

Unlike a few others, I never 'pretend' to be anything.

What you read, is what you get ...

... or something like that.

Undoubtedly!



Michael Bryant, WA4009SWL
Louisville, KY
R75, S800, RX320, SW77, ICF2010K,
DX398, 7600G, 6800W, RF2200, 7600A
GE SRll, Pro-2006, Pro-2010, Pro-76
(remove "nojunk" to reply)

On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 21:33:21 -0400, dxAce
wrote:



B Evhart wrote:

On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 20:38:28 -0400, dxAce
wrote:



Diverd4777 wrote:

- Quite true; Frank,
Air America is quite good..
Have a freind ( Veteran, Korean war) Listens to it regurlarly.

"Morning Sedition" where Mark has " Recovery Corner"
and reaches out to " Brother George Bush " with tips and hints:
"The Presidential Palm Pilot"and
- The daily " Liberal Agenda ' a fax coming in From The Streisand Compound
are all good schticks..

- entertaining,
Like watching Cassius Clay Box; Flurry of direct hits,
then suddenly floats back . .
Leaving the opposition stunned and bewildered.

Air America's a very good station.

Dan ( Running a Sangean DT -110 and doing 10,000 steps a day )

Keep it up! You'll make it to Havana before you know it, and you'll feel right at
home!

Tell Fidel we all said hello...


Steve, Could you pretend to be a Democrat for one day and argue the
"left's" point of view. It would make for some incredible threads.
I'm asking you - please.

Unlike a few others, I never 'pretend' to be anything.

What you read, is what you get ...

... or something like that.

Steve
Holland, MI
Drake R7, R8 and R8B

http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm



Sure.... Stu Parker. Muhahahahahhhhahhahhahhaaah

"Diverd4777" wrote in message
...

- Quite true; Frank,
Air America is quite good..
Have a freind ( Veteran, Korean war) Listens to it regularly.

Did they get better? I didn't think they were particularly good last time I
heard them, but I did think Franken was OK. To be fair, I think they are
about as good as the Limbaugh clones, who get tiresome pretty quickly.
Limbaugh used to be better than he is now, but he started leaning hard on
the Republican party line years ago.

It will be interesting to see how many people are listening in a year.

Of course, what I like ain't necessarily what makes a decent sized audience.
I do think Alex Jones is the most entertaining talent in political talk
radio.



"Morning Sedition" where Mark has " Recovery Corner"
and reaches out to " Brother George Bush " with tips and hints:
"The Presidential Palm Pilot"and
- The daily " Liberal Agenda ' a fax coming in From The Streisand
Compound
are all good schticks..

- entertaining,
Like watching Cassius Clay Box; Flurry of direct hits,
then suddenly floats back . .
Leaving the opposition stunned and bewildered.

Air America's a very good station.

I think the New York station is their only 50 kW station, although the 1 kW
signal in Chicago had fair coverage. We'll see if the New York rating
surprise will give them some momentum to expand into other big cities. And
maybe they will get smart, and get onto shortwave radio.



Dan ( Running a Sangean DT -110 and doing 10,000 steps a day )


Frank Dresser

Quoth "Frank Dresser" in news:FH1wc.32857
:

Subject: Air America -- Good Ratings in NY!
From: "Frank Dresser"
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave


"Diverd4777" wrote in message
...
- Quite true; Frank,
Air America is quite good..
Have a freind ( Veteran, Korean war) Listens to it regularly.

Did they get better? I didn't think they were particularly good last
time I heard them, but I did think Franken was OK.

Franken's quickly developing radio chops. His conversational interview
style often gives me flashes of Arthur Godfrey's best qualities, and then
there are the comedy bits, which are improving daily. I'm really enjoying
listening to him. The torture segment opening today's show (Franken bound
and shirtless, with Lanpher interrogating him using electrified nipple
clamps) was just hysterical!

All of AA's programming is tightening up since the management change.

Morning Sedition remains as entertaining as any "Morning Zoo" show I've
ever heard, but more clued-in.

Unfiltered, not so much improvement, though Chuck D continues to impress.

The best thing about Majority Report continues to be the guest list, second
best is how well-informed Janeane Garofolo is, though she's taking longer
to develop radio chops than Franken is. She really needs a more
experienced radio hand as a co-host and OTJ trainer; Sam Seder just doesn't
cut it, mostly he annoys the hell out of me.

And Randi Rhodes blows the rest of them away.

--
"I am afeard there are few die well that die in a battle; for how can they
charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument? Now, if these
men do not die well, it will be a black matter for the King that led them
to it; who to disobey were against all proportion of subjection." - W.S.

- Still love 'Recovery Corner'

" Hi, My names Mark, I'm an alcoholic;

reaching out to Brother George Bush "....

Lots of good call ins from notables

Great, Uplifting , entertaining stuff..





In article , Tom Betz
writes:


Morning Sedition remains as entertaining as any "Morning Zoo" show I've
ever heard, but more clued-in.

Unfiltered, not so much improvement, though Chuck D continues to impress.

The best thing about Majority Report continues to be the guest list, second
best is how well-informed Janeane Garofolo is, though she's taking longer
to develop radio chops than Franken is. She really needs a more
experienced radio hand as a co-host and OTJ trainer; Sam Seder just doesn't
cut it, mostly he annoys the hell out of me.

And Randi Rhodes blows the rest of them away.