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Another victim of Margonomics. And you thought they didn’t use bold tags in radio:
Air America has struggled financially since its inception. According to documents filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, the company lost $9.1 million in 2004, $19.6 million in 2005 and $13.1 million so far in 2006.
To be fair, the dying network did earn $120 last month from GoogleAds.
Look, it’s simple. Liberals cannot run any organization in which they have to stay in the black. This is because they tend to produce what they think is important, not what the consumers think is important.
The exceptions are activities where free competition does not rule (universities, publicly funded monopolies such as PBS, public schools). Anytime they try, it usually results in disaster. (see Carter, Jimmy, 1977 to 2001)
Posted by wronwright on 2006 10 15 at 12:57 PM • permalinkYes wron, and in activities where free competition does not rule, they must be highly, often completely, subsidized by the productive elements of society, otherwise they would fail too. Its just in some cases (public schools come to mind), we cannot admit they are failing. The only public institution where we do not accept routine failure is the military.
The Limbaugh business model was to create a product, market it, and then sell it to whoever wanted it. Now at over 6 or 700 radio stations and counting. The (Dead) Air America business model was to buy radio stations and force them to broadcast a product nobody wanted. Oh and name it after a Vietnam era CIA operation which caused AA’s target audience coniptions in its day. Typically Stalinist in outlook, execution and results.
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 10 15 at 01:10 PM • permalinkThe Limbaugh business model was to create a product, market it, and then sell it to whoever wanted it.
Dell started out in someone’s garage.
(don’t nobody checked this out on freaking Wikipedia, if I said it happened it happened!)
Posted by wronwright on 2006 10 15 at 01:35 PM • permalinkAnd you thought they didn’t use bold tags in radio.
The available bandwidth in radio transmissions in the AM and FM bands is far less than what’s available on the INTERNET. As a result, using any format tags in a commercial broadcast, and the formatting costs shoot through the roof. Even amateur radio operators have to mind their p’s and q’s on this one.
Rush Limbaugh gets around this dilema simply by speaking plainly. It’s an effective business model, as the market can attest.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 10 15 at 01:35 PM • permalinkHo! Is that dissent I hear coming from Rebecca’s house?
(warms up the space orbital laser cannon, turns dial to STIFLE, turns modulator to the degree of GRUMBLING UNDER BREATH)
Posted by wronwright on 2006 10 15 at 04:40 PM • permalinkNow Wronwright, you know you are not supposed to use the Orbital Mind Control Lasers on members of The Conspiracy. What would Karl say? Take your finger off that button right this minute.
It won’t do you any good to try using it on me, since I’ve got one of the real blocking devices. It isn’t even a helmet, you can carry it in your pocket. Those of us high enough in the ranks get them, just as a precautinary measure you know.
Gotta get back to the weather control project. Think how unprepared Iran will be for Force 5 hurricanes every week. They want asymmetrical warfare, we’ll give them asymmetrical warfare.
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2006 10 15 at 05:51 PM • permalinkAir Australia? Rudi Michelson: Privatise the ABC
“With its poor performance, entrenched ideological bias and ‘Vietcong-style’ industrial strife, surely it’s time we sold the public broadcaster”Posted by stackja1945 on 2006 10 15 at 07:53 PM • permalinkVanguard, I’ll bet Air America would have been a lot more successful if they had just had some Siberan camps and a few mock trials accompanied by appropriate executions. After all, it worked for Stalin. Poor preparation on their part I call it.
Wron, HP and Apple were both founded in garages. Dell was founded in a university dorm room. (Not that there is a hell of a lot of difference in my memory.)
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 10 15 at 08:37 PM • permalinkAs Liberal Larry says, after this stifling of dissent:
. Now all we progressives have left to counter the Right-Wing Noise Machine is ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, TBS, NPR, CNN, BBC, HBO, HSN, MTV, VH1, Showtime, The Abortion Channel, Gore TV, Reuters, The Associated Press, Time Magazine, Newsweek, The New Republic, the Nation, The New Yorker, TV Guide, People Magazine, Teen People, Us Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, Oprah Magazine, Ladies Home Journal, Woman’s Day, The Advocate, Esquire, Vogue, Cosmopolitian, Humpty Dumpty, Architectural Digest, Cat Fancy, Playboy, Penthouse, Hustler, Swank, Sugar Tits Quarterly, the Harvard Perspective, High Times, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Seattle Times, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle Weekly, The Boston Globe, The Village Voice, The San Francisco Chronicle, The San Francisco Examine…......
Here’s a business Air America should have learnt from:
Fiercely partisan Fox helps restore balance to news
Fox celebrated its 10th anniversary last weekend. Happy birthday, chaps. With its cousin, Sky, it dominates the ratings in the universe of pay-TV news.Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 10 15 at 10:56 PM • permalinkFear not Air Americans. With the Democrats poised to to take control of Congress, can a renewal of the Fairness Doctrine be far behind?
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 10 16 at 01:25 PM • permalink
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