Rachel maddow has left radio

 Except as a day-old teevee re-run, Rachel Maddow has left Air America, and radio.

Yet Air America continues to claim she still works there.

She has a hollow web page at the AAR site and is listed under "shows." Her show blog has video clips of her on teevee.

We'd get it if they'd simply announce what's happening -- she's a teevee star now -- but they haven't, won't.

We've gotten nothing but runaround from Air America's Senior VP of Programming, Bill Hess.

KPTK Operations Manager Carey Curelop says, "Air America is offering Rachel for only one hour a day and that is going be a rebroadcast of the previous night’s TV show. We’ve decided not to take the feed. We love what Rachel does, but we want a radio only show and we’re really not being offered that."

He agrees: Rachel, like a donut, is not good enough day-old.

We are digging the new Ron Reagan Show, and look forward to whatever Ana Marie Cox and Tina Nole come up with, but just as we began to have hope for their competence and stability, it became obvious that AAR couldn't hold onto a talent like Hartmann let alone Rachel.

Rachel's show, btw, beats Larry King more than half the time, and challenges Hannity every night.

TV Newser:

"The Rachel Maddow Show" continues to knock the crown from "Larry King Live," out-rating CNN by 16 percent among A25-54 in January (454,000 vs. 390,000). This is the fourth consecutive month that "Rachel Maddow" has out-rated "Larry King Live" and, launch to date, "Rachel Maddow" is out-rating "Larry King" by 11 percent. In January 09, "Rachel Maddow" is up 139 percent among A25-54 (454,000 vs. 190,000) and up 186 percent in total viewers (1,325,000 vs. 463,000) versus 9 p.m. in Jan. 08, the fastest growing cable news show in the hour.

That means the hour of yesterday's MSNBC that AAR offers to affiliates is not only old news, but is been-there-heard-that to most Rachel fans a day later.

Comments

[Coiler]

btw, it was posted the kids in that home were removed by the local sheriff.

Parents caught with ex bake oven making Hilter cakes

[rozskat]

Do you think Americans working at substandard wages is going to solve the unemployment problem? Hardly Steven as minimum wage workers or even workers who make $14 an hour could not afford to buy houses and cars. One of the causes of the current unemployment problem is the lack of credit available to businesses. In business the only real variable cost you have is labor and materials. In addition attempts by the new economy to create wealth by swapping paper and forsaking production has caught up with us.

No one desires high unemployment or should be stuck making minimum wage. It is ludicrous to demote workers to substandard wages just so they can compete with workers from China or India. Standard of living decreases with low wages. Unions have been neutered, the dollar is worthless, very few if any Americans have benefitted from free trade especially the production sector, deregulation and “free market” practices have created an atmosphere of less competition i.e. broadcasting, banking, airlines, and telecommunications and so on. The belief is that Americans are strictly consumers and not producers have resulted in personal negative savings and titanic debts while making us into a debtor nation. I am sure this has happened within the past 18 months.

[sparky]

Exactly, rozscat...but the facetiousness of your last sentence will be lost here.

[rozskat]

Let me rephrase the last sentence from "I am sure this has happened within the past 18 months" to "I am sure this has all happened within the past 18 months.

I stand corrected. Thanks Sparks.

[Nevets]

Yes Roz, I am sure it has all happened in the last 18 months. But I'll go even further and say it all has been happening in the last 30 years. Except the credit crunch. The credit cruch came after the banking collaspe, but unemployment has been on the downslide since Jan. 07.

So riddle me this Roz, how could President Bush with a Republican House and Senate get unemployment down to 4% with all the same things you mentioned happening? Wasit good luck? No Roz, the only common factors for unemployment being at 7.6% today is the Libs are in charge and the Libs raised the Minimum Wage.

And one other thing, Minimum Wage was never meant to be a "Living Wage".

[Nevets]

Coiler, I find it hard to believe you are worried about Walmart making a cake with the name Hitler on it especially after you just last November voted for someone who shares the same name of one of the top 10 worse dictators of the 20th century. Go figure.

[rozskat]

OK Steven, I pose a question to you. What did President Bush and the Republican Congress do to keep unemployment at “4%?” What was the quality of the jobs that were available? How many of those who are employed are technically underemployed? As my economics professor pointed out, economists live and die by statistics and unfortunately many of those stats do not show the underlying truth to what it is to represent. Would you admit that the economy was superb under the Clinton years or would that be considered sleeping with the enemy since he was a Democrat?

[Nevets]

For your answer, how Bush and the republicans got the unemployment rate down (not kept) to 4% was with tax cuts. The same tax cuts Liberals have been trying since Jan 07' to repeal. As for the types of jobs, the same jobs that are being lost today is my guess. One thing they didnt do is raise the Minimum Wage. They knew the consequnces of what that would do. As you can see today.

As for Clinton, three words...

Contract with America

[Nevets]

One other thing, hearing your reports from the sea makes me homesick.