# How well is Air America doing?

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**Created:** [August 7, 2006, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-is-air-america-doing/367737 "2006-08-07T18:58:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-is-air-america-doing/367737/1 "2006-08-07T18:58:09Z")

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Where on the net can I find out how well Air America is doing w.r.t. ratings?

Periodically Air America hosts get in pissing contests with other hosts over whether AA is doing well or poorly. I can never figure out which side, if either, is telling the truth.

-FrL-

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-is-air-america-doing/367737/2 "2006-08-07T19:28:24Z")

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[Arbitron gives them a 1.2 share,](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_America_Radio#Ratings) but whether that is doing well or badly for an AM station, I have no idea. Furthermore, it’s not clear whether that figure is national, or based only on markets where AAR broadcasts. Most places you can’t get it at all. Tampa probably has a bigger left-leaning crowd than Miami, but you’ll find an AAR station only in the [latter.](http://www.am940southflorida.com/main.html) (But Tampa has [WMNF,](http://www.wmnf.org/) a non-commercial station which carries Pacifica Network News, Democracy Now! and Radio Nation.)

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**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-is-air-america-doing/367737/3 "2006-08-07T19:37:25Z")

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> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> [Arbitron gives them a 1.2 share,](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_America_Radio#Ratings) but whether that is doing well or badly for an AM station, I have no idea. Furthermore, it’s not clear whether that figure is national, or based only on markets where AAR broadcasts. Most places you can’t get it at all. Tampa probably has a bigger left-leaning crowd than Miami, but you’ll find an AAR station only in the [latter.](http://www.am940southflorida.com/main.html) (But Tampa has [WMNF,](http://www.wmnf.org/) a non-commercial station which carries Pacifica Network News, Democracy Now! and Radio Nation.)

Thanks.

Hey, from that wiki article:

> [@wiki](#):
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> For example, Rush Limbaugh, the most popular talk radio host in the United States, averages a cumulative weekly audience (“cume”) of about 13.75 million listeners on more than 500 stations nationwide, [8] whereas the Air America network as a whole reported a cume of 3.1 million listeners over 67 stations for the spring 2005 ratings period

Hey, that’s way more listeners _per station_ for Air America, right? Maybe that’s good for them, then? 🙂

-FrL-

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**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-is-air-america-doing/367737/4 "2006-08-07T19:53:24Z")

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**How well is Air America doing?**

Better than their critics would like. 😉