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...accomplished so much," Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (aka (Robert Smigel) told Janeane Garofalo and Sam Seder, hosts of Air America Radio's "Majority Report," on the network's first anniversary last Thursday. "A year ago today we had a tyrannical president leading us into a costly war. And look at today. The war's going much better...
...Triumph's chronology may have been off - George W. Bush invaded Iraq two years ago - but the pooch's sarcasm was on target. If Air America's ultimate intent was to end war and change administrations - and it was - the network failed. AAR was founded and funded by liberals who saw the need for a liberal alternative in a wildly energized political season when arguing over Bush and his policies had become the national pastime. The network's founders had three dreams (not necessarily in this order): 1. provide talk radio with a countervailing force to Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity...
...America Radio has achieved something significant: survival. As poignantly revealed in the HBO documentary Left of the Dial, the network had to endure media scorn, its own amateur flounderings and, nearly, financial ruin. Yet it is still on the air - not in three big cities (New York, Los Angeles, Chicago) and three smaller ones, as it was when it went on the air, and not on the severely reduced network it became two weeks later (after bounced checks led to L.A. and Chicago dropping out), but on 52 stations, including 15 of the top 20 markets (L.A. is back, Chicago...
...major funder of Bush and the Republicans, isn't a liberal philanthropy. It's picking up "progressive radio" because this is the fastest growing format in the country; and that is because Air America has proved it attracts listeners and advertisers. From an original audience of 120,000, the network more than tripled to 400,000 within three months, and now, according to the latest Arbitron ratings, reaches 2.137 million listeners a week, with 129,900 tuning in for the average quarter hour. Now and again, at least in New York City, Franken's midday show has out-pulled...
Building onto its extensive network of deans, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) announced on March 24 that Linda Snyder will oversee the similarly extensive network of FAS land holdings as the associate executive dean of physical resources and planning...