Air America To Declare Bankruptcy?

[David]

The article and the comments pretty much tell the story. So much for any chance of getting an Air America affiliate in the SLC metro:

thinkprogress.org/2006/09/13/air-america-bankruptcy

[x]

Bankruptcy doesn't mean the network is dead. Companies do it quite frequently to get a handle on their debt.

[dolt]

UPDATE: Air America responds.

If Air America had filed for bankruptcy every time someone rumored it to be doing so, we would have ceased to exist long ago; it may be frustrating to some that this hasn’t happened. No decision has been taken to make any filing of any kind, we are not sure of the source of these rumors and frankly can not respond to every rumor in the marketplace.

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[David]

dolt said:

UPDATE: Air America responds.

If Air America had filed for bankruptcy every time someone rumored it to be doing so, we would have ceased to exist long ago; it may be frustrating to some that this hasn’t happened. No decision has been taken to make any filing of any kind, we are not sure of the source of these rumors and frankly can not respond to every rumor in the marketplace.

same source

Hence the reason why I put the thread title in the form of a question. The article indicated that Air America may or may not declare bankruptcy. And while bankruptcy doesn't necessarily indicate that the network is dead, I still don't think there's much of a chance of Air America trying to get ratings in a market as conservative as the SLC metro, especially if the network is having financial difficulties.

[admin]

One never knows, one of our small AMs that is struggling could try it to get attention, so never say never, stranger things have happened

[dolt]

I have long since given up making sense of programing decisions.

[Sailor]

If I were the PD of a smaller station, I would frankly take the Air America offering. Even though Utah is the Redest of Red States, there are still a large group of liberals here who hate George Bush. Rocky Anderson is their poster boy. As a PD, I would much rather have ALL of the smaller liberal group, than be fighting for a share of the local religion dominated conservative group.

[x]

Sailor's right, but not only for the reason he said. As I said before, the station doens't care WHY people listen as long as they do. The conservatives would likely listen as well just to "keep tabs" on what the "opposition" is doing. Further, entertaining radio is listened to regardless of whether you agree with it or not.

I think it's a bit of a long shot, but given the sorry state some stations are in now it probably isn't any worse than what's on now. And if some of these proposals go through and there are even more stations coming on air, you've got to find something that isn't the 4th or 5th station in the market doing that format.