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[warrior1]

http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/Content?oid=oid%3A48407

Surprised by Air America’s success? Corporate America loves the lefty product.

By R.V. Scheide



Enid Goldstein--who joined Air America affiliate KCTC in January--said talk radio is saturated with right-wingers. But business is booming for progressive radio.
Photo By Larry Dalton

Its conservative critics claim it’s shooting air balls, but it’s beginning to look like Air America Radio is hitting nothing but net. After a shaky start two years ago, the fledgling liberal talk-radio network has now expanded to 88 cities nationwide, including Sacramento, where it airs daily on KCTC 1320 AM. After more than a decade of suffering through abrasive right-wing pundits such as Rush Limbaugh, liberals finally have a team to root for--and a network to tune in to, which listeners in Sacramento and across the country appear to be doing with increasing regularity, according to network insiders.


snip a roni

[annabanana]

1. "perhaps"

"Goldstein understands what Fox News curmudgeon Bill O’Reilly and a host of Air America’s conservative detractors do not: Liberal talk-radio listeners represent an untapped market, perhaps a vast one."

yes, "perhaps"
I guess they'll find out.

[PeachyDem88]

2. Why did it take so long for a left-wing alternative to emerge?

The right have been at it for years...

Oh well...

To continue using the article's metaphor: at least we're in the game, now.

[annabanana]

3. probably because people with money to put up

were buying into the whole
"the kooky left is so small and stupid and poor and confused and high and idiotic and have nothing to say anyway" thing.
(which of course is the whole cloth of the right wing noise machine)

[Radio_Guy]

4. They are realizing

that we are indeed the majority. The left is the true voice of America once again.