I am terminably confused by the suggestion from the new boss-man at Air America, implanted in their hosts (or at least the two that I heard yesterday — a handful of minutes of Thom Hartmann and an hour of Rachel Maddow) — that they have “relaunched” as “Air America 2.0”.<\/p>\n
This is a joke, right?\u00c2\u00a0 For some reason they inserted an interview between Mark Green, he of — who the hell knows what fame, but he bought Air America for the pittance that it cost to get it out of bankruptcy — and Eliot Spitzer.\u00c2\u00a0 An indelibly pointless and not terribly interesting interview.\u00c2\u00a0 For her part, Rachel Maddow interviewed Barak Obama.\u00c2\u00a0 This seems to be a forced influx of “big names” to be interviewed for the “relaunch”– in the most pointless meandering manner possible, selling the candidates for what is, I guess, Democratic Party Radio.<\/p>\n
In reality this will fade away and it will be status quo.\u00c2\u00a0 Pointless and bland interviews with the Democratic presidential front-runners are nothing new, and if it weren’t pointed out that this is something somehow altogether different, I would not have noticed.\u00c2\u00a0 Except for that weird Mark Green interview tih Eliot Spitzer.\u00c2\u00a0 I scratch my head at that one.\u00c2\u00a0 Is that the new innovation that Mark Green has cooked up for this network — interpersing himself into the line-up in bursts and spurts?\u00c2\u00a0 Is that what makes a “relaunch”?\u00c2\u00a0 Otherwise, I don’t quite get it.\u00c2\u00a0 They’ve altered their schedule a little, but they’ve done that a few times before, and probably will have to do so again sometime sooner or later. I am terminably confused by the suggestion from the new boss-man at Air America, implanted in their hosts (or at least the two that I heard yesterday — a handful of minutes of Thom Hartmann and an hour of Rachel Maddow) — that they have “relaunched” as “Air America 2.0”. This is a joke, right?\u00c2\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIn terms of the business decisions with the alterations to the schedule: \u00c2\u00a0 Not only has Lionel not gained many fresh affiliates, he lost roughly a half dozen that carried Seder on delay. The only station he seems to have been added to is WINZ in Miami, on delay from 6-9P ET. Lots of stations still list him on their website schedules for his former show, but it is unknown if they are still running his new Air America show in those time slots.<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/em>Actually, I have come to think that this was a bad decision by both Air America and Lionel, but it appears to — at the moment — be worse for Lionel than I thought, who I had at least seen a slight upshot for in terms of some added exposure.\u00c2\u00a0 It always struck me as simple desperation on the part of Air America’s new management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"