How Will New York Liberals Manage Without It?

Air America, the left's failing experiment in a talk radio network, may be going off the air in its biggest market - New York City:

AIR America is close to losing its New York flagship station - knocking Al Franken and his liberal colleagues off the air on their second anniversary.
The network has a two-year lease with WLIB (AM 1190) that is reportedly set to expire April 1 - and at least one reliable report says it is "extremely likely" the deal will not be renewed.

Losing its New York outlet would be a serious blow to the fledgling liberal radio network. "Radio Equalizer" blogger Brian Maloney - who blew the whistle on questionable loans to the lefty network last year - published the first report that WLIB was on the verge of evicting Air America some time soon.

Air America's options for a new home are not promising. All of the city's other strong-signal stations are spoken for, leaving only weak-signal "fringe" stations that do not cover the entire city and suburbs.

Air America parent Piquant LLC has reportedly been paying Inner City Broadcasting - controlled by former Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton and his son, Pierre - $2.5 million a year to air Franken and others.

That last paragraph tells you all you need to know about Air America's problems. No successful conservative network, such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Medved, Hugh Hewitt or others is having to pay stations to put them on the air. In fact, the opposite is true because the demand for the product is such that the stations can pay the network fees and more than make up for it in advertising revenue.

The left tried to make people listen to 24 hour whining, complaints and conspiracy theories, but there just isn't that big a market for that kind of programming.