Radio stations typically maintain a profit margin of 4-6%. Government funding of National Public Radio means that it never has to worry about profitability and thus can forward an idiology that cannot be supported by commercial radio. This advantage is one of the main reasons that Air America is failing. NPR does not have to make money, but Air America does, as NPR gathers the liberal audience Air America loses listeners and slowly dies.
Would the liberal cause be better off if NPR was not a leftwing entity because Air America might survive in more markets than Boston, NYC and San Francisco?
2006-07-09 16:30:31 · 9 answers · asked by Club U 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
I'm by no means a liberal, and I don't think NPR is liberal either. It's very balanced, thought out, and intelligent. The news that is presented is quality stuff with elements of multiple sides of a given issue.
2006-07-13 07:18:43 · answer #1 · answered by harmonslide 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's tough for any talk radio station to compete with the quality programming on NPR. There's nothing political about say..."Car Talk" and "All Things Considered" is just that. It's just plain good radio that pedantic Air America can't match. If NPR sold commercial time, I'm sure they'd do alright as they have a whole new market on Sirius. NPR is radio for thinking people, not necessarily radio for people who think a certain way. Maybe you should give it a listen.
2006-07-10 03:22:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Air America failed because it was too transperant. Americans are really as dumb as the libs think they are. Air America's main purpose was to attack Bush, and people just dont want to hear it. In fact, most of the media is like a watered down air america, and people are looking for alternative sources. We want fair and balanced, meaning, I dont mind hearing criticism of the President, but it must be honest criticism. When it becomes an organized Bush-bashing sesion, I tune it out.
America tunes out Air America and NPR, because of its obvious leftist agenda.
2006-07-09 23:37:45 · answer #3 · answered by jack f 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not at all. It fails because nobody listens. NPR may suck up most of the liberal crowd but if AA gave even a semi-entertaining listening experience it would blow NPR out of the water. It just doesn't. Liberal hate only draws a small crowd. See recent elections...
2006-07-09 23:34:52 · answer #4 · answered by anonymosity 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a right-winger, but I would listen to Air America if 1) there was entertainment value 2) I didn't feel like I was being talked down to 3) well... really, number 2 again and again. Gore didn't get my vote because of his arrogance (who is HE to decide who the "right Americans" are) and really, the same with Kerry. Arrogance. Air America has arrogance dripping out of my speakers. Plus Garofalo feels that I have a character flaw.
2006-07-09 23:48:14 · answer #5 · answered by Eric C 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Airhead America all together is failing for one big reason: No listeners. Last I heard, they are in serious financial trouble and are on the brink of closing down. The reason for this is because the majority of Americans do not want to listen to a station that trashes their country. So naturally, they have very low numbers.
2006-07-09 23:35:27 · answer #6 · answered by nighthawk_842003 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Air America fails mostly because from what I hear, the pundits and so-called "personalities" have zero solutions, zero better suggestions, and plenty of vitriol for the current regime, and that gets boring after December 2000 or so. Nobody wants to hear it.
2006-07-09 23:34:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have listened to NPR and find a lot of their broadcasting to be non Liberal!
Have you ever listened to it?
And even if it were, do you support only right wing broadcasting stations?
2006-07-09 23:36:21 · answer #8 · answered by cantcu 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Air America is doing fine in Minnesota.
2006-07-09 23:33:00 · answer #9 · answered by Tommy D 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋