Yet another instance where "liberal" mainly means being liberal with other people's money:
After just two weeks of broadcasting, Air America Radio, the fledgling liberal talk-radio network featuring Al Franken and Janeane Garofalo, was pulled off the air this morning in Chicago and Los Angeles, the network's second- and third-largest markets, in a dispute over payments for airtime.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.
They probably heard something about "free speech" and assumed that meant they didn't have to pay for it.
Posted by: Xrlq on April 14, 2004 03:09 PMLOL@X's comment. Is it really a surprise? Not to me. Where is all that liberal money at? Oh, it's still in the conservative's banks, I guess. *shrugs*
Keep up the great work, Stefan.
Posted by: Kevin P. on April 14, 2004 03:28 PMDon't open the champain just yet. It might be a contract dispute. Don't know if the site this is from is legit or not ..
Progress Media's chief operating officer recently told Randi Rhodes' audience the details behind the dispute:
There are two contracts with Arthur Liu, the stations' owner; one for the Chicago station (WNTD) and one for the LA station (KBLA). Progress Media learned that Liu had been charging two different entities- Progress Media and another party- for time on the LA station at the same time.
Progress Media objected to this, figuring that charging two different entities for time on the same station at the same time amounted to theft, and disputed some of their charges related to the LA station. They did send Liu his checks on time but instructed Liu not to cash those checks until the dispute had been settled, and began negotiating to settle the dispute. Meanwhile, they allowed Liu to cash the checks for the Chicago station, since their dispute was related to the LA station only.
In the middle of negotiations over the contract dispute in LA, Liu pulled the plug not only on the LA station but the Chicago station as well, in violation of the Chicago station contract.
Again, no checks have bounced. Liu has been asked not to cash checks for the LA station until disputes over charges for that station's service are settled.
http://web.morons.org/article.jsp?sectionid=7&id=4854
Posted by: TakeFive on April 14, 2004 05:18 PMAs Nelson from the Simpson's would say, "ha, ha."
Posted by: Naarski on April 15, 2004 09:35 AM