Franken cleans Limbaugh's clock

If you were an average 18- to 34-year-old in New York in April, you were 7 times more likely to be listening to Al Franken than Rush Limbaugh according to extrapolation of Arbitron ratings data (login/pass="freeread"). Air America Radio's WLIB beat WABC by a smaller margin among 25-54 year-olds.

According to the Chicago Tribune, "WLIB won sevenfold with a 2.9 share to WABC's 0.4" among the former group and "WLIB garnered a 3.4 share to WABC's 3.1" among the latter group between the hours of 10 AM and 3 PM, which comprises the last 2 hours of Unfiltered and all of The O'Franken Factor on WLIB and local radio personality John Gambling, Paul Harvey and Rush Limbaugh on WABC. The O'Franken Factor and Rush Limbaugh go head-to-head from Noon until 3 PM Eastern time.

Right-wing-generated rumours of Air America's quick demise have clearly been greatly exaggerated. Despite what amounts to a small set of problems unsurprising for any new business venture, Air America Radio has things well under control. Perhaps the Bush administration could learn something applicable to its out-of-control occupation of Iraq from Progress Media.

---Nick

http://web.morons.org/article.jsp?sectionid=6&id=5072

He's so soft and boring! and he...he caters to his right winger friends so much! Why is he so...so friendly sounding all the time...I could hate it! and...and...I can't stand his sidekick! I can't stand her girly-sounding voice! And...and...Randi Rhodes is so strident and unprofessional complaining all the time! And ..and her sidekick is so irritating laughing and agreeing with her! ...And...and the rest of them are so lousy and not worth listening to! And...and they haven't hired Mike Malloy yet! With...without him a fledgling network has...has no chance at all! And...and they have so many financial problems!...I can provide the links to Drudge that...that prove it!

I agree Al can be a bit boring. But if you saw him debate Bay Buchanan a couple of days ago, he was a very good debater. Randi is more about crude humor and raunchyness. I find her to be very funny, and I don't take her seriously.

Not the like the guys on the right are the most entertaining and fun to watch either. I've been listening to them for over ten years and have gotton sick of it. Look how annoying El Drugbo, and Hannity are. Heck they are even sadistic calling torture a "frat prank". Remeber how they made fun of Chelsea. No one on our side has done such things to the Bush twins. Don't forget that psycho Weiner Savage who sounds like he belongs in the KKK. So relax and take a chill pill....

or at least hope, he was being sarcastic. There's a contingent here who seems to live for complaining about AAR.

i think you covered all the usual suspects with that one. :)

:)