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Politics : Err America: They Report, They Decide -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (339)	9/4/2005 2:55:46 AM
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Air America loses Charleston, SC station By Aaron The Blue State Conservatives Maybe it was the hate-filled comments like this: "This President is never gonna do the right thing. I think somewhere deep down inside him he takes a lot of joy about losing people, if he thinks they vote Democrat or if he thinks they're poor, or if he thinks they're in a blue state, whatever his reasons are not to rescue those people who are (planning?) for their safety." --Air America's Randi Rhodes Or the super-low ratings: In Charleston, South Carolina, WLTQ has fallen to just a 0.7 rating. But WLTQ has dropped Air Enron and replaced them with a news station. Let's hope this isn't the last station to do it. Air America: 69 stations and shrinking! UPDATE: From this site (linked below), I learned that WLTQ was a conservative talk station before flipping to AAR in December 2004. The right talkers moved to an FM station. WLTQ is a Clear Channel owned station which is the biggest company in radio. This could signal a move away from AAR on many CC stations where ratings are virtually non-existant. Even a visit from Al Franken himself in April couldn't save the station. UPDATE2: In other AAR news, rating continue to sink like a rock. In West Palm Beach, Fla., WJNO used to be one of AAR's top stations. In fact, last fall it had a solid rating of 5.3. That's great for any station, but less than a year later the station has slumped to just a 2.7 rating. Good for AAR standards, but they're heading in the wrong direction and quickly. That's the only AAR station to release ratings today so the scoreboard stands at: 3.0 or higher: 0 2.0 to 2.9: 4 1.0 to 1.9 rating: 7 0.1 to 0.9 rating: 17 Too low to generate a rating: 6 radiobs.net radiobs.net radiobs.net radioandrecords.com mike.typepad.com cofc.edu radioandrecords.com