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Article: AIR AMERICA BEATS THE ODDS\ LIBERAL TALK RADIO OVERCOMES DIRE PREDICTIONS.(News)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- March 31, 2005
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Byline: Rick Bird Post staff reporter
Air America Radio came on the air March 31, 2004, with host Al Franken loftily proclaiming, "Today is -- an end to the right-wing dominance
of talk radio."
A year later it's too early to declare the liberal talk network a major ratings or commercial success, but it is certainly not a failure. And Franken was at least correct: Listeners in most of the country's top markets -- including Cincinnati -- now have a daily political alternative on the radio dial to the conservatives who have dominated commercial radio the past few years.
Air America has gone from 11 stations at launch to 51 now, ...