Time Magazine Covers the Death of Air America Radio

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This is a pretty good post-mortem of Air America Radio, which has gone out of business. My fondness for the network is mostly nostalgic, as the only program I still listen to from that source is The Ron Reagan Show. I hope Ron secures a new syndicate for his program, as it is most enjoyable (particularly the first 20 minutes).

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RIP: Air America Goes Off the Air

Air America Radio was born at noon, eastern time, on Mar. 31, 2004, and on that first show the host, Al Franken, proclaimed his first mission: to defeat George W. Bush in that year's presidential election. It died a year and a day after Barack Obama's Inauguration, and two days after Obama's Democrats all but officially became a minority party in the U.S. Senate. The liberal radio network — which provided Franken, the ex-Saturday Night Live comedian, with a conduit to his own Senate seat, and gave the first significant exposure to MSNBC darling Rachel Maddow — expired nine weeks short of its sixth birthday, after waging a heroic battle against advertiser indifference and listener apathy.

Read more at: TIME