When Air America sought protection from bankruptcy earlier this fall, the glee from the right-wing blogosphere was evident. It was a clear victory for conservative talk radio over liberal talk radio: the market had spoken!
Well, it’s starting to look like the market was reading from a teleprompter. From Media Matters:
An internal ABC Radio Networks memo obtained by Media Matters for America, originally from a listener to The Peter B. Collins Show, indicates that nearly 100 ABC advertisers insist that their commercials be blacked out on Air America Radio affiliates. According to the memo, the advertisers insist that “NONE of their commercials air during AIR AMERICA programming.” Among the advertisers listed are Bank of America, Exxon Mobil, Federal Express, General Electric, McDonald’s, Microsoft, Wal-Mart, and the U.S. Navy.
At least one of the corporations listed, REI, says they never asked to have their ads excluded from Air America programs.
