The numbers are in…
The NYC Arbitron Abbattior 04/02/07:
WABC (Rush, Hannity): 3.3 (unchanged); 9th overall
WOR (O’Reilly, Savage): 2.1 (.1 gain); 20th overall
WWRL (New Air Idiot): 0.8; (unchanged) 28th overall
And now for some tasty Air Idiot scuttlebutt!
Rumor has it (though it makes perfect sense to this AAR observer, who predicted as much when the Green Brothers takeover was announced) that new owner Mark Green has been busily preparing to throw Sam Seder under the AAR bus, and claim his 9-12AM morning timeslot as Markie the Moron’s personal perch. Since the Green team took over, Moron Markie has supposedly tasked staffers to organize a show for him to spout, since Day One, and insisted it be a morning timeslot.
This appears unrelated to the last time it seemed Seder was getting canned.
My Lefty Leaker–who has good contacts, and no reason to bullshit me–tells me Seder recently shot off an e-mail announcing the move is in the works, and that Seder, who’s been working at AAR without a contract for over a year, is negotiating to try landing a Sunday evening gig with the netlet.
Targeting Seder’s slot makes perfect sense if you’re Moron Markie, because it’s the only morning slot on Air Idiot’s NYC “flagship” that AAR actually controls. WWRL’s owners refused to cede morning drive to AAR; their own, established team of Sam Greeenfield and Armstrong Williams remained in that important (ratings/advertising-wise) daypart when they agreed to lease their frequency to the Idiots. Plus, if Green could have wrested that plum spot in the lineup away from that pair, his ego could never handle getting crushed like a bug by WABC’s Curtis and Kuby, especially Curtis Sliwa, who’d have a field day whacking Markie like a piñata, once the Arbitron numbers started rolling in, as he’s previously done with Don Imus. So Seder was his only option, since not even Moron Markie would have the balls to try bumping pros like Thom Hartmann or Randi Rhodes to satisfy his preening ego.
El Source-o also says Stephanie Miller, a Randi Rhodes confidante, has been busy holding meetings while all this backstage crap has been going on. I’m sure Markie’s move can’t be sitting well with the netlet’s on air staff. For Green to waltz in, armed with his family’s dough, and demand–with less broadcast credibility than even Al Franken had when AAR first hit the airwaves–a prime piece of broadcast real estate has got to grate on their nerves….
Is there an Air Idiot insurrection in the works? Who knows or cares! I’m just getting a kick writing a riff similar to something seen on Page Six.
When/if this change goes down, it will be interesting to see how many AAR affiliates decide to carry Markie’s show. Outside of NYC, I’d wager pretty much nobody knows the dolt, and Seder’s fans are not going to be willing to cut the new owner a break after tossing their boy aside to sate his overreaching vanity. I’d also wager that in the NYC market, Moron Markie is gonna get handed his ass, and drive down WWRL’s already anemic Arbitron numbers.
As the Old Perfesser said, “Can’t anybody here play this game?”
(note: this post has been mildly tweaked (the grammar/style nazi in me) since originally tossed into the digital ether.)
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well, you’re wrong about sliwa
he couldn’t slap the shizzle out of a squirrel
and wabc won’t realize any gains
out of seder being replaced by green anyway
gambling’s most frequent guest is psychotic peter king
who sees “islamofascists” in the bushes of the bqe
my guess is genius freak pd bernstein
will indulge green with a vanity show for wwrl
and throw stephanie miller everywhere else
for green’s message and style will not resonate
with anyone outside of the tri-state area
seder did a brilliant show critical of aipac
and followed up one day with krugman and conason
that’s phenomenal balance no other host had achieved
which is why the neocon power structure
had to have seder “disappear”
now i KNOW i don’t have to explain
that arbitron is a sham, from beginning to end
it’s just more transparent, here in the capital of the world
and wabc won’t realize any gains
out of seder being replaced by green anyway
That wasn’t what I predicted;
nor did I even imply.
I said WWRL would take a hit,
for egomaniacal Mark Green
kicking Seder to the curb.
Those listeners ain’t gonna start tuning in John Farking Gambling.
i agree
i do think limousine types
would give green a shot, though
if you remember (although we’ve tried hard to forget)
green was never what you would call a compelling presence
on the evening news, as public advocate
although i agreed with many of his actions, early on
he always came across as artificial and whiny
and i have no reason to believe
it won’t be the same way over the air
[MARK IS A DOUCHE]
all of this centrist crap is just an extension
of the “political correctness” the right whines about
everyday people are pissed off for valid reasons
and diluting the message accomplishes nothing
i do think limousine types
would give green a shot, though
I doubt ‘RL’s broadcast signal can get inside their cars.
Shit, I doubt they give a damn about ANY of it.
wanna bet how hard “The Radio Equi-ass” ignores me and this?
heh… HEE! HEE, FARKING HEE!
poor Sham Seder…I weep…I cry…;-)
I celebrate his demise by tossing back rum and Diet Coke.
The reason AAR has never attracted an audience is because there’s no on-air talent. Most of them are EX-comedians who weren’t all that funny in the first place and people no one has ever heard of.
Ask the average person on the street who Ed Schultz is, and their likely reply will be “Who?”
“tossing back rum and Diet Coke”
dave, you’re confused again
it’s BENDING FORWARD and TAKING large cylindrical objects
that is your stock and trade
tc, the “tranquilizer” is very busy today
challenging the only version of christkiller
he can really comprehend
Little did the Young Americans (Republicans) know that their well-attended seminar at last year’s convention on Talk Radio was infiltrated by quite a few of us who are monitoring their dirty tricks aimed at undermining Air America. The rest of the convention was boilerplate doublespeak on how to dupe the public into believing that they are “reforming” or “improving” foundation social programs they openly admit they are out to kill, but can’t admit since they’d be outed as the crackpot privileged Little Lords Fauntleroy they are, as they flounce from the meeting on how to scapegoat gays over to a closet gay orgy of the pasty and pudgy.
But the College Repuke’s Talk Radio seminar was buzzing with the plans for throwing up smear blogs, phonying ratings reports that are never published, smearing the whole enterprise with the misdeeds of an early CEO who misrepresented himself, etc ad nausem. Monomaniacal were the trickster progency of Rove, Abramoff and Reed in the need to shut up the first challenge to the rightwing dirty tricks talk radio juggernaut, a disinformation operation that would astound Goebbels.
Air America even as a fledgling start-up speaks truth with such power and take-no-prisoners pugnaciousness that the right thought they own as bully boys who bullied their way into power, bullied the opposition into complaisance, even tried to bully their own more conscientious members into silence as they blew the whistle on the spiraling fraud. Air America gives it right back to them in spades. This sets the hair on fire of the rightists who ginned up their dirty tricks squad to throw everything they can at Air America to collapse it. It is vulnerable because it doesn’t have a Moonie fraudster convict, or an Aussie press baron, to float it through the lengthy start-up period. It only has truth, and the right is certain they can snuff that too since it worked so well with Iraq, the media consortium’s findings on who actually won the 00 election, even the objections of GOP U.S. Attorneys to being smeared for crying foul.
But somewhere in the recent past we reached critical mass of the GOP’s towering mass of lies. Bullies started being outed and shown for the chickenhawk closetcase cowards they really are. Now is the time for the rightists to ask themselves if they really want to push it any further. You have lost two wars in which the whole world rooted for the other side because YOU are YOU, filthy lying scumbag rightist ideologues. You destroyed the reputation of the United States in every corner of the world, bankrupted the government, sent your party into a 15 point Pew nosedive. All that is left for you is to slither back into the holes you crawled out of, lest we take the shovel to you for a final coup de grace.
Remember whose side always wins in a revolution. But this time the guillotine is too good for the likes of you.
Stephanie Miller is not Air America. She is Jones, as is Ed Schultz.
And YOU, DUDE are a troll.
Sorry, but we not amused when you spew five plau paragraphs.
So buck up, or go away.
PS: You know what side wins a revolution? The one with the guns.
So you wanna use a shovel to “deal” with me? Bring it, bitch!
Really, it’ll provide me with a few seconds of entertainment… and fresh meat for my dogs.
If anyone knows the intricacies of “BENDING FORWARD and TAKING large cylindrical objects” it is you HASH-SKIRT. You know, as the unintelligent, poor grammar and horrendous speller of a Troll you are, you are not worth my time. I don’t know why TC feeds trolls like you unless it is because he finds you amusing. Or perhaps TC takes pity on the severely retarded amongst us, if so, he is to be applauded.
Hash Skirt – all you’re about is ad-hominem attacks. I’ve read your loosely formed and ill-informed comments here to TC, the Marine Dad guy (sorry, can’t recall his name) and I get a more intelligent response to politics and current events from my neighbor’s aging and sight-loosing dog. You never argue anything factual because you can’t. That lump in your head is not a brain, it’s a small, fried, fetid rotting dog turd.
I offered on a previous post that you can take your incoherent attacks over to my blog instead of wasting TC’s space here and you never did. Plainly said HASHSKIRT – you’re a chickenshit. A Big, Momma’s Boy Chickenshit, like 95% of all the other lame, jizz-swallowing, Lefty apologists. What’s it like to have your own set of facts – none that no one else even remotely believes?
“Air America even as a fledgling start-up speaks truth with such power…” — uh, no, it doesn’t. It’s program hosts are uninformed Kool Aid drinkers who repeat the propaganda that’s told to them by the 95% crowd of Liberal jizz swallowers.
If Shammy boy is stupid enough to work a year without any contract, he deserves what he gets. This…from “one of the smartest people in Liberal Radio” BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA. What a dumbass.
I’m waiting for Mike Malloy to die…oh, I’m havin’ a big party that day…hell, that week. It’s gonna rock and roll and spleefs will burn!
evidently, sam seder’s last day on aar’s weekday schedule
will be friday, april 13
i don’t believe he’ll do the sunday show