Air America, the left-wing radio network that's been on the air only a few weeks, may be collapsing already.
The Chicago Tribune reports that the network was bounced off the air in two of its biggest cities yesterday:
Arthur Liu, owner of Multicultural Radio Broadcasting, which owns Air America affiliates WNTD-950 AM in Chicago and KBLA-1580 AM in Los Angeles, said Air America bounced a check and owes him more than $1 million.
Air America and Multicultural had entered into a time brokerage agreement in which the network was essentially renting Multicultural's airtime, Liu said.
"They bounced a check today," Liu said. "It's a default. They have paid only a very small portion of what they owe us." Liu declined to say how much Multicultural is owed, but did say he is holding $1 million in checks that Air America has asked the company not to cash.
This leaves Air America broadcasting in only
six markets--New York, Minneapolis, Riverside, Calif.; West Palm Beach and Key West, Fla.; and Plattsburgh, N.Y.--as well as on the XM and Sirius satellite radio networks.
And what in the hell is Air America doing
paying radio stations to air their programming?
Rush doesn't, neither does Hannity, O'Reilly, Liddy, or any other the other conservative radio show hosts.
Is the liberal message so unappealing that these people actually have to pay stations to put it on the air?
