Air America's "regular broadcast hours"?

[tomreedtoon]

The Internet stream, for the first time today, gave me "Please tune back during regular broadcast hours" at 9:16 AM Eastern time.

This suggests two things. The more unfortunate is that Air America may be underfunded and unable to take care of technical details. They ARE running a lot of public service announcements, which make them no money.

The other might be more positive; perhaps the Real Audio servers are clogged with all the people that want to tune in. (Which is why I wasn't sanguine about them using Real Audio, instead of the free Winamp Shoutcast broadcasts or Apple's iTunes system.)

[Lindsay]

1. They're having technical problems with the streaming

from their site.

If you want to listen, try this page

http://www.geocities.com/nomad559/AirAmerica.html

I've been listening to the WLIB stream all morning.

[Rationality]

2. I'm a pessimist

I must be honest here: Air America simply isn't getting advertisers. The one time I listened to it, not a single commercial; just PSAs. If they don't find a way to market themselves soon, it's back to Pacifica or bust.

[Supormom]

3. Not a single commercial?

How long did you listen- 30 seconds?

[Rationality]

4. Half an hour

And for talk radio standards, that's not healthy.

[atldem]

5. If you are listening on the web

you won't hear the commercials. Legal reasons.

[Rationality]

6. You still hear PSAs though? ((n/t))

[atldem]

7. They are national.

Local commercials cannot be broadcast nationally.

[Rationality]

8. Didn't know that, but should we be hearing silence instead of straight PSA

n/t

[atldem]

9. When local commercials are playing

all you will get is silence.

[Rationality]

10. I heard maybe a minute of silence then. Still a problem

The local wingnut here in Gainesville gets about 7 per half hour. We pull one, maybe 1.5?

[jnervijr]

11. aa website

what happened to the "listen live" button" on the aa website? all of a sudden it has disappeared!

[SoCalDem]

12. go here and click on wlib link.. I am listening now

http://www.geocities.com/nomad559/AirAmerica.html

[Norquist Nemesis]

13. Try liquidcompass link here

http://www.620knews.com/listen/index.php

You'll get the silence during commercials, but ...

Supposedly they're back up (at least some time today) here in Chicago. :bounce:

The local media stations are still reporting the bounced check line; at least they've added a final followup subscript note to the 'news' story that the Judge decided AA paid and must be reinstated on the air.

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. THANKS

I could not get it in any way