AIR AMERICA COMPLETES SALE TO GREEN FAMILY

It is a great day that Air America is moving forward thanks in great part to the Green family and the multitude of listener/members. It is even sweeter that the transaction occurred the day that the Libby FELONY conviction for lying was revealed. It is a new day- tell a friend/co-worker/neighbor- if not XM, sign up and podcast- it is truth radio- Air America is for all!!

Dear Mark Green,

We voted for you for mayor. You are a true people's person. Thank you for Air America!

We have listened to Air America since the very beginning, day 1, trying to receive Al Franken on our AM radio.

We discovered Randi Rhodes that week. We are devoted.

We purchased first, Sirius to get Air America, then XM Radio. We are also premium subscribers.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!

Sincerely,

Carol and JP Beledo and family

Right now I suppose we're in AAR 2.0 Beta. This is exciting. If the potential of the Air America brand and notoriety can finally be leveraged into a viable radio programming entity, this will do a major service to the progressive movement and the overall survival on this planet.

I would hope that a major effort will go into creating a following for the network, or whatever it is now, that can be advantageous to finding advertisers who won't chicken out if someone says something radical. I am always reminded of the alternative rock format, which drew on, and often created, a subculture capable of sustaining it without having to justify its existence to large, timid corporations or conservative local business types.

In addition, I hope that voices from the far left will still have a place on Air America. It's easy to say that they already have Pacifica Radio, but Pacifica as we know has only five stations (plus dozens of affiliates carrying Democracy Now!). Also, as New Yorkers, I don't have to remind you how dismal the factional struggles can get there. It drives a lot of good people away.

The only other thing to remember is that there is a dedicated and well funded right wing echo machine that will try to destroy your reputations by every underhanded trick in the book. As one of your employees, Rachel Maddow, used to say - VIGILANCE!

Now let's kick some butt and make some awesome radio!

-Z

el pueblo! unido! jamás será vencido!
"A nation of sheep begets a government of wolves." _Murrow :aar: 

If you want comments on how to make AAR better for the listeners, I have a few ideas.

1. Make sure that the stream is constant, I can only listen via the interent and using today as an example, I was unable to listen for over 4 hours. I kept getting this stream is unavailable. YOu should allow stand alone players to be used and not just imbeded ones.

2. Bring Mike Malloy back, get rid of Randi Rhodes. Mike is good and Randi has become to arrogant. I have called her show 12 times in the last 2.5 weeks and have been refused every time. Mike never refused my call. Randi talks about how great she is. Mike never does that.

3. Bring Marc Maron back, team him up with Sam Seder.

4. Bring the other half of Majority Report back with her own show.

5. Do away with the premium stuff, allow open access.

6. Have brand new programming on the weekends not just a avery few shows. Many of us hate reruns on the weekends.

7. Create a way for the average listener to contact the Presidents office at AAR and then respond to those comments.

Thanks

Thank you for saving AAR!

Mark Green you have discovered your true destiny-- you will do so much more with this venture than you ever could being a public official in NYC. I applaud the vigor you and your brother bring to keeping the progressive message alive and thriving.

Thanks again!

p.s. Please bring Malloy back.

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I have regained hope for our future..I hope it is not too late to undo the mess.
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Thanks and good luck to all of us!
Carolyn Spector Gillis

Thank you Green Family - you are very much appreciated. I live in Upstate NY (Warren County) and its very red here. I listen to AAR on XM except during lunch and then I stream to hear the brillant Thom Hartmann. We need to get AAR on a local AM radio station and there are a few here. Best of Luck - we need you as much as you need us.

No more pussy footing around Batman! Lets kick some Rape ublican'ts butt! bring back Mike Malloy and Marc Maron!

My air america premium just stopped 2 1/2 weeks ago. I thought maybe it was a bug. I waited a day or two and it still said I'm not subscribed. Now it is possible my year subscription ran out, but I didn't get any notivficiation either by mail or from the website. I went to my accounts page and there was no information but "you are not a premium subscriber." No past billing history, no subscription info, not when I subscribed or when I was scheduled to expire. No info on renewing my subscription. Just "you are not a premium subscriber." Now I would just renew my subscrip[tion but if it was a bug I didn't want it to kick in again and then I start getting double billed or something. So I looked for a way to contact them. But unlike almost every other commercial site, there is no contact link on the main page. As a matter of fact there are no links on the main page except FAQ and ACCOUNT. I already mentioned the only info at ACCOUNT so I went to FAQ and at the very bottom it says do you have more questions, I clciked on that and then I had to sign in AGAIN, and I get an email address and a help ticket form. SO I explain all this and put in the help ticket. A day later no one has responded and I try and view my ticket but I can't find it so I put another ticket in. THe next day no one has responded so I finally find in the small print the link to all my previous tickets. I edit a ticket and ask if they plan on responding to me. The next day i write the email address and I get an outomated response and it is blank. So now I've moved to the regular AIr America site and I find a phone number, I leave a message explaining everything and still no one gets back to me, it is now over a week and a half since I first contacted them and no one has contacted me either by phone, by email, or by my ticket. At this pointI suggest that no one use Air America PRemium. I'm putting this everywhere I can think of so maybe someone who gives a damn at Air America might do something about it.It seems to me that AIr AMerica is purposely doing everything it can to make people stop listening. There is a reason Air America is failing, and it is not politics or liberalism, it's management.

I have desperately missed AAR the last few months. Our KXEB-AM 910 used to be the AAR carrier, but just before Election day, they changed format to religious programming. I choose not to think there is a conspiracy there.
Please find another frequency in Dallas, and here is a suggestion: Ed Schultz in the afternoon. I had heard that there was some kind of friction or disagreement between him and Randi Rhodes, but never heard any details. No matter, Ed Schultz is a good choice. I used to like Randi a lot better, but before we lost our AAR in Dallas, she started sounding really mean and arrogant. Perhaps it was pre-election excitement on her part, but it was unpleasant to listen to. And I got sick of that stupid "bounce your boobies!" song she used to play on Fridays. Ed Schultz knows when to breathe fire, and when to calm down and go with the flow. He is also humorous without resorting to profanity. just give it some thought will you?---Michael

Anytime a corporation or rich family buys something, it changes. It won't be long before Air America reaches the suck factor. I'll sit, wait, and watch, then laugh.