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Thursday, April 15, 2004
LESS AIR FOR AIR AMERICA. I
caught about 40 minutes of Air America Radio's Morning
Sedition today, and no mention of the financial wrangling that
has knocked the liberal network off the air in Chicago and Los
Angeles. The Chicago Tribune reports
on the battle, which Drudge broke
yesterday.
Drudge also links to Air America's
statement,
which, as a lawyer might put it, is just loaded with actionable
phrases (highly entertaining!), and a copy of Air America's lawsuit,
which is available
on the Smoking Gun.
The dispute is between Air America
and Arthur Liu, who is the head of a small radio chain called
Multicultural Broadcasting. Curiously, when I wrote
about Air America's pre-broadcast plans in December (it was then
known as Central Air), Internet radio guru Scott
Fybush identified Liu's
stations in Watertown and Lynn as possible Boston-area
outlets.
Liu, though, told me that it wasn't
going to happen, because Air America wanted to buy his stations
outright and he didn't want to sell, although he would be willing to
lease airtime. "We're not in that game," Liu said with regard to a
sale.
Even more curiously, it appears
that Air America did finally decide to lease time on Liu's
stations in Chicago and Los Angeles - and is now paying a high price
for that.
NEW IN THIS WEEK'S
PHOENIX. A spate of recent books and articles shows that
the debacle
in Iraq didn't have to
happen.
Also, a new study on the economic
impact of the Democratic National Convention has provoked a
dispute
between Boston Herald columnist Cosmo Macero Jr. and the
Beacon Hill Institute.
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Dan Kennedy is senior writer and media critic for the Boston Phoenix.
