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Air America Owes Maddow $3,952


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When liberal radio network Air America filed for bankruptcy last month, it left some of its high-profile contributors, including Rachel Maddow and Ron Reagan, holding the bag as creditors.

The New York TimesMedia Decoder blog reports that the company’s unsecured debts exceeded its net worth by more than $15 million at the time of bankruptcy filing, with most owed to Pendulum Media, the company run by Air America’s chairman, Charlie Kireker.

“But when the lefty chatter stopped, some of the talkers had not been paid for the last of the airtime they filled,” reports Media Decoder. “Ms. Maddow was due $3,952 for her services, which appeared to be about two-thirds of her monthly pay of $5,833. Mr. Reagan’s company was owed $6,351, two-thirds of his monthly pay of $9,375.”

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Reader Comments
  • Name: Jonboy
    Date posted: 2/5/2010 9:50:58 PM
    Hometown: South Dakota

    Comment:

    It is RON Reagan Jr., NOT ROB....... And he is not a flaming right winger. In fact he and his father Ronald Reagan were usually at odds with each other politically if my memory serves me correctly. His sister also was in battle. Ron Reagan, Jr. supported the democratic ticket for Obama. So, it did not surprise me that he was on Air America. He may have gotten paid more because he is the 'son' of a former president. That talks. You may be thinking of his brother Michael Reagan who is the adopted oldest child of Ron Reagan and his first wife, Jane Wyman. Michael is very right wing.

  • Name: Bobby
    Date posted: 2/5/2010 6:57:34 PM
    Hometown: Miami

    Comment:

    "We don't need people telling us how to think and vote, we make up our own minds unlike all those conservative right wing ranters." ----Hahahahahahahahahaha! What a lie, what's the name of that woman who ran for Vice-President with Dukakis? She has been a liberal all her life, but the minute she criticized Obama the "racist" label came on. The same was done to Hillary Clinton, and to any liberal who dares to have an independent thought.

  • Name: Shawn
    Date posted: 2/5/2010 3:51:15 PM
    Hometown: Boston

    Comment:

    We don't need people telling us how to think and vote, we make up our own minds unlike all those conservative right wing ranters. They follow dumb founded, remember conservative is against any type of change... look it up in the dictionary. I left the republican party because it does NOT want moderates only to go back in the dark ages and the right calls Iran a theoracy. Give me a break!

  • Name: Bobby
    Date posted: 2/5/2010 12:08:45 PM
    Hometown: Miami

    Comment:

    Oh, Chris, I confused Rob Reagan with the other guy with the Reagan name on right-wing radio. You're right, Maddow certainly deserves more money than your Reagan. By the way, do you even watch Fox News or are you getting your info from Media Matters?

  • Name: Chris
    Date posted: 2/5/2010 10:44:01 AM
    Hometown: Brooklyn

    Comment:

    Also, just to be clear, Rob Reagan Jr. was also on Air America. I doubt his ratings were higher than Maddow's, but if so, that's a sad commentary on the state of our country.

  • Name: Chris
    Date posted: 2/5/2010 10:39:01 AM
    Hometown: Brooklyn

    Comment:

    The last thing we need? Really? Because I would say the last the we need is spending $3 TRILLION on the War in Iraq. Think about the magnitude of that number and how much it distorts our debates over pennies in domestic spending. Also, predictable, unfunny, distorted, etc.? I was never a big fan of anything on AA other than Maddow, but what exemplifies all those adjectives is right wing talk radio (not to mention Fox). Clearly the quality and veracity of the broadcast is not what determines commercial success.

  • Name: Bobby
    Date posted: 2/5/2010 10:13:20 AM
    Hometown: Miami

    Comment:

    Chris, it's called RATINGS! Air America has pitiful ratings, right-wing radio enjoys HUGE ratings. Get it? You get paid what you're worth, not how brilliant you are, not how sexy you are, if you bring a large audience you deserve a large paycheck. The last thing we need is government bailout of poorly rated radio shows and struggling liberal newspapers. Air America failed because it's boring, predictable, dishonest, biased, has no sense of humor and dull.

  • Name: Chris
    Date posted: 2/5/2010 9:47:25 AM
    Hometown: Brooklyn

    Comment:

    Why the hell was dumbass right-wing-spawn Ron Reagan Junior paid twice as much as the brilliant and influential Rachel Maddow? Sexism? Savvy Republican business negotiators?



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