Early on, sarevel of the Air America shows, especially Al Franken’s, got fairly good ratings on WLIB in NYC(this was a coincidental set of call-letters; they existed LONG before Air America came along)which ran a solid boosted-by-an-efficient-directional-antenna 10,000 watts days on 1190. According to some info on the New York Radio Message Board, WLIB achieved ratings in the area of 2.0 or more Monday through Friday, sometimes approaching the shows on WOR-AM 710. Five-thousand-watt WXKS-AM 1430 near Boston also got a whole integer to the left of the decimal point, something its 50,000-watt incarnation in the middle of the dial has so far failed to do. General Petraeus on “Meet the Press” referred to the Taliban as “ultra-extreme-right-wing conservatives” so I’d like to utilize the term in reference to the “ultra-extreme-right-wing conservative” talk show hosts and their acolytes who are hoist on their own petard when they say that left-wing programming can’t garner an audience and then claim that NPR leans left. Now PPMs include public radio outlets, and they are among the ratings leaders in PPM markets.