"Air America struggles elsewhere, but not on KKZN"

[MattNC]

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~120~2845078,00.html

That's not the case in Denver. The Arbitron winter ratings show KKZN 760-AM, which took on Air America last September, with the same 1.6 share it had in the previous ratings period.

Among the highly valued (to advertisers) 25-54 age group, Bell said, the station's midday combination of Al Franken and Ed Schultz logged a 2.5 share, up from 2.2 in the fall. To compare, the Mike Rosen/Rush Limbaugh combo at the same time on KOA 850-AM logs an impressive 6.9.

[Oreo]

1. I'm curious...

does KKZN advertise at all? I think if more people knew where to find AAR, they'd get MUCH higher ratings

[MattNC]

2. I don't know

I don't live out there, but I hear that WLIB seems to be the only station that's gotten any serious advertising.

[tridim]

3. I would listen to that station IF

they actually aired the AAR lineup live and unmodified. They've hacked the programming to the point where it's not actually AAR.

[CO Liberal]

4. Most Times, I Can't Pick It Up In Pueblo

And when it's cloudy, I have trouble getting it in Colorado Springs, too.

[MattNC]

5. so...

because they air a few programs not distributed by AAR that means you won't listen to the station at all?? AAR's not the only game in town anymore.

[tridim]

6. I listen on satellite precisely because they carry the whole AAR lineup

But since Sirius and AAR are in fallout mode, I guess I'll have to start listening to tape delayed radio soon. News happens so quickly these days (thanks to the Internets), that even a three hour delay is too much.

[politicat]

7. Yeah, but our lineup is all effed up.

We don't get much of Majority report at all because they tape delay it, and only play 1 hour (11-mid, M-F, Mountain). They do play some of it, in the wee hours of the morning, so it's never, ever live, and never when I can listen to it. Instead, we get the paranoid ramblings of crypto-fascist Phil Hendrie, who should be taken off his feeding tube - he's been long brain dead. Ed Schultz is okay but not great and just as annoying and bombastic as Rush. Randi Rhodes gets pre-empted for some local basketball game at least once a week. Jay Marvin in the mornings is just not my cuppa. Morning Sedition used to be drive time for me, but now it's live, and I'm just not UP at 4 am.

The schedule is all fucked up, and it's just not worth listening to. However, I promise you, if I ever get picked for Arbitron again (I've been an Arbitron listener a couple times) My habits will change. (Currently, I just don't listen at all.)

Wish the Sirius stuff had worked out....

[F.Gordon]

8. Why all the 760 bashing?

I'm just thrilled to have anything on the air to listen other than the right wing horseshit.

I think I saw a TV ad with Jay Marvin on it... cross promtion kind of thing. But it is still getting 760's name on the TV...