AIR AMERICA BACK ON THE . . . AIR . . . IN AMERICA

Hey, that was fast:

Just announced on Air America Radio: a judge has ruled in favor of Air America in a contract dispute over the Chicago station, WNTD 950AM. As we reported yesterday, the owner of the Chicago and Los Angeles stations, Arthur Liu, pulled the plug on both stations over a contract dispute relating to the LA station (KBLA 1580 AM).

A spokesman for Air America also said that they expect to resolve the problem with the LA station soon. Progress Media had learned that during a time that it had leased KBLA, Multicultural Radio was also leasing the station to another party. What Liu did is similar to someone renting an apartment and having the landlord also lease the apartment to another person until the first renter started moving in; control of the apartment belonged exclusively to the renter and should not have been leased to another party at the same time.

Because of Liu's actions, Progress Media stopped payment on the check they'd mailed Liu for the LA station until the dispute over the charges was settled in arbitration, as their contract with Multicultural radio requires.

Claims of checks bouncing, poor ratings, revenue promises unkept (which doesn't apply at all considering the station is leased), the network running out of money, the network having "serious cash-flow problems" (as implied by the conservative media), etc are all false.

Well, well, well.

I'd say something snarky, but the truth will have to do.

Oh, what the heck...

Once again a nuisance impediment is put in front of Al Franken, and is quickly dispatched once an actual judge has a look at it, while giving Franken and his gang a bunch of media attention in the process. Thanks!