Monday, January 30, 2006

Mike Malloy’s rage:



As America moves steadily towards fascism, the shout of the Liberal Media is getting louder and louder, but the Main Stream Media, which is controlled by the powerful corporate lobby, is shutting them out.

Mike Malloy went way ahead of the other Liberal Talk Show Hosts with his expression of his deep inner rage against what is happening in America today. His reading of George Orwell’s book "1984” is something that EVERY Liberal Talk Show Host should be doing on every show.

The Young Turks have started a massive online protest programme to block Ailto’s nomination to the Supreme Court and to ensure that every Democreat Senator gets on board to oppose the cloture vote and filibuster this in the Senate on Monday and Tuesday. This has pulled them from the bottom of these ratings to the top.

It is sad that it needs such an event to bring out the best in these three hosts, who make up the Young Turks. Otherwise we have heard them vacillating and vacillating.

Ratings for the week ended 28th January 2006:

  1. Mike Malloy Show hosted by Mike Malloy and Peter Werbe ***** 5 (# + 1 +1) shows a week

  2. The Young Turks (Cenk Uygur, Ben Mankiewicz and Jill Pike) ** 5 shows a
  3. Nightcall hosted by Peter Werbe ***** 1 show a week

  4. The Stephanie Miller Show **** 5 shows a week

  5. Laura Flanders ***** 2 shows a week

  6. Ring of Fire (Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mike Papantonio) ***** 1 show a week

  7. The Randi Rhodes Show ***** 5 shows a week

  8. Bernie Ward ***** 4 shows a week

  9. Ray Taliferro ***** 5 shows a week

  10. Thom Hartmann *** 5 shows a week

  11. Mike Webb *** 5 shows a week

  12. Nate Clay ** 1 show a week

  13. The Majority Report (Janeane Garofalo, Sam Seder) ** 5 shows a week

  14. Air America Mornings (Mark Riley 0500 - 0700 and Rachel Maddow 0700 - 0900) ****

  15. Politically Direct (David Bender) **** 1 show a week

  16. Ecotalk (Betsy Rosenberg) **** 1 show a week

  17. John Rothmann *** 2 shows a week

  18. Ed Schultz 5 shows a week



Unrated this week:

Let us hope the Democrat Senators listen to their only base, the Liberal talk Show Hosts and vote according to what the Democrat grassroots are shouting trough their hosts to filibuster Sam Alito!

posted by Jacob Matthan at 17:00 0 comments

Saturday, January 21, 2006

Mike Malloy leaps far ahead:



Mike Malloy started reading from George Orwell's book "1984", a 6 minute segment everyday.

It is amazing what this Talk Show Host can do with such a simple tool as an old book. He just jumped miles ahead of other Liberal Talk Show Hosts in the ratings.

Stephanie Miller is getting good vibes from all around. Her short interview of Congressman John Conyers Jr. just a few minutes before the hearings in the basement of the House, because of the behaviour of the fascist, Republican Congressman and the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, James Sensenbeger, helped her jump up the chart.

Peter Werbe will be off the next two weeks, so do not be surprised when he does not appear on the ratings.

Lizz Brown has her technical team trying to solve why she cannot be heard live in Finland. Would love to bring her back into the ratings, but she will also have to keep her pages regularly updated to get a true rating.

Ring of Fire had some great items on last weeks programme, pushing them up the ratings.

The outrageously funny but deadly serious Ray Taliaferro really kicked both right-wingers and apologetic liberals in the backside on his shows this past week. He is one who takes no enemies and boy, was he good.

Nate Clay has been talking too much of local issues, but even so he still manages to hold his rating. He really exposes Democratic Senator Barrack Obama as an "Uncle Tom"! And Nate knows about Uncle Toms, he does.

Despite Sam Seder having a briiliant show with Louise Slaughter's scoop about day traders working with insider info out of GOP Senator's offices, the show still cannot hit the high spots because of the incoherent shouting that takes place on the programme. Louder does not make the items more sensational!

Ratings for the week ended 21st January 2006:

  1. Mike Malloy Show hosted by Mike Malloy ***** 5 (# + 1 +1) shows a week

  2. Nightcall hosted by Peter Werbe ***** 1 show a week

  3. Bernie Ward ***** 4 shows a week

  4. The Stephanie Miller Show **** 5 shows a week

  5. Laura Flanders ***** 2 shows a week

  6. Ring of Fire (Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mike Papantonio) ***** 1 show a week

  7. The Randi Rhodes Show ***** 5 shows a week

  8. Ray Taliferro ***** 5 shows a week

  9. Thom Hartmann *** 5 shows a week

  10. Mike Webb *** 5 shows a week

  11. Nate Clay ** 1 show a week

  12. Air America Mornings (Mark Riley 0500 - 0700 and Rachel Maddow 0700 - 0900) ****

  13. Politically Direct (David Bender) **** 1 show a week

  14. Ecotalk (Betsy Rosenberg) **** 1 show a week

  15. The Majority Report (Janeane Garofalo, Sam Seder) ** 5 shows a week

  16. The Young Turks (Cenk Uygur, Ben Mankiewicz and Jill Pike) *** 5 shows a
  17. John Rothmann *** 2 shows a week

  18. Ed Schultz 5 shows a week **



Unrated this week:


Till next week.

posted by Jacob Matthan at 22:00 0 comments

Saturday, January 14, 2006

Talk Show Ratings back on track



This was the week of the Sam Alito hearings for his appointment to the Supreme Court of America. If CSpan could be included in these Talk Show Ratings, this would have been Number 1.

The Democratic Senators failed to question the nominee adequately and the Republican Senators showed that they were just part of the Bush Choir. There was hardly a single question put by the Republicans questioning the nominee on his record. The Republicans, in the main focused on tearing down the Democrat Senators who asked quetions and the liberals and the left wing - contributing nothing to finding out the good, bad and ugly side of Alito.

Most of the Liberal Talk Shows this week were directed to covering these hearings. Almost all of them did a good job, although none better than Mike Malloy who tore the Democrat Senators to pieces in a way that showed the sham of the US Senate procedures.

I had email from the Radio Station that airs Lizz (Elizabeth) Brown as she has dropped off our ratings as her show cannot be heard LIVE. We are now trying together to establish why this is so.

The same situation with the Mark Levine Show which unfortunately cannot be heard LIVE any longer, for reasons unknown. Maybe his producer would like to do some investigation so that we can hear his show LIVE once again.

Mike Malloy stays at the top without any doubt. Peter Werbe stays in second spot. There is quite a battle for the third spot as 3 ladies try to get ahead of each other - Laura Flanders, Stephanie Miller and Randi Rhodes. Randi continues to talk “over” her guests, but she has had some good guests on including James Risen, the New York Times reporter who was behind the disclosure of Bushes spying on Americans programme and the author of the book: State of War : The Secret History of the C.I.A. and the Bush Administration.

Bernie Ward is a very focused Host and Ray Taliaferro continues to be the most hilarious and yet the Host with about the greatest punch in this line up. John Rothmann continues his hot and cold routine.

Thom Hartmann did not have his Friday session with Independent Congressman Bernie sanders, as he had some host from Phoenix, Arizona fill in for him. This Host could not give his strange name (for us foreigners) in a decipherable fashion and did not have much to say other than tell us he was standing in for Thom Hartmann. Maybe this break will help Thom to freshen up his routine a bit, but Thom’s stand that “a little expertience is THE REAL THING” does not stand up for much scrutiny when he quotes his fleeting visits to regions and countries as his "undisputable experience”.

Mike Webb is on air again, but I am not sure exactly how he is on air. He seems to have a blend of recorded stuff on his juke box online presence, but whenever I hear him Live, he is great.

Sam Seder continues to run his show and I rarely hear his partner, Janeane. When on together the shouting match is just too much for my ears.

One excellent feature on Air America Radio is that we online listeners do not have to listen to those stupid advertisements that Americans want to listen to. But they have been totally unimaginative of what to do with the space, which should have provided Air America radio with a golden opportunity to send out powerful messages to the Liberal world. But all we hear some off-putting music which is really off-putting. What a waste of valuable air time!

Ratings for the week ended 13th January 2006:

  1. Mike Malloy Show hosted by Mike Malloy ***** 5 (# + 1 +1) shows a week

  2. Nightcall hosted by Peter Werbe ***** 1 show a week

  3. Laura Flanders ***** 2 shows a week

  4. The Stephanie Miller Show ***** 5 shows a week

  5. The Randi Rhodes Show **** 5 shows a week

  6. Bernie Ward **** 4 shows a week

  7. Ray Taliferro **** 5 shows a week

  8. Ring of Fire (Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mike Papantonio) **** 1 show a week

  9. Politically Direct (David Bender) *** 1 show a week

  10. Ecotalk (Betsy Rosenberg) *** 1 show a week

  11. Thom Hartmann *** 5 shows a week

  12. Mike Webb *** 5 shows a week

  13. Nate Clay *** 1 show a week

  14. The Majority Report (Janeane Garofalo, Sam Seder) ** 5 shows a week

  15. Air America Mornings (Mark Riley 0500 - 0700 and Rachel Maddow 0700 - 0900) **

  16. The Young Turks (Cenk Uygur, Ben Mankiewicz and Jill Pike) ** 5 shows a
  17. John Rothmann ** 2 shows a week

  18. Ed Schultz 5 shows a week **



Unrated this week:


Wish you all very happy listening to the Liberal Talk Shows. The battle of the hosts is up and running again again - and may the best ones be at the top of these ratings!

posted by Jacob Matthan at 19:33 0 comments

Saturday, January 07, 2006

Only few shows rated this week



Like last week, this week has also been extreemely difficult to do the ratings. Many Talk Show Hosts have been on holiday. They had others fill in for them. Not quite the same.

Peter Werbe filled in for Mike Malloy for one day this week. Mike had a nasty throat. Peter did not have his own show last Sunday night / Monday morning.

Randi Rhodes was back and she had a couple of good guests. However, she has this horrible habit of talking over and for her guests, hardly giving them a chance to express their views. I do not know why she bothers to have guests on when she gives them so little time to do their talking. She does not get it that 4 hours of her non-stop talking is a bit much. She ruins the show by her "rude" behaviour. If I was her guest, I would walk off her set!

Sam Seder was on air and the show came up the ratings because of the fact that several shows were off.

Rachel Maddow has come back and goes up in the ratings. She shares the 4 hour spot in the morning with Mark Riley. They have the chance of making it big on the charts if they can keep their audience getting back to them. they have a nice international time slot.

Mike Webb is back on the air, but I do not know whether he is back on the station. He is his usual good self.


Ratings for the week ended 6th January 2006:

  1. Mike Malloy Show hosted by Mike Malloy or Peter Werbe ***** 5 (shows a week

  2. Bernie Ward ***** 4 shows a week

  3. Ray Taliferro ***** 5 shows a week

  4. Air America Mornings (Mark Riley 0500 - 0700 and Rachel Maddow 0700 - 0900) **** 3 shows last week

  5. Thom Hartmann *** 5 shows a week

  6. The Stephanie Miller Show **** 5 shows a week

  7. The Randi Rhodes Show ***** 5 shows a week

  8. Mike Webb *** 5 shows a week

  9. The Majority Report (Janeane Garofalo, Sam Seder) ** 5 shows a week

  10. Nate Clay ** 1 show a week



Unrated this week:


Happy listening as the Liberal Talk Shows resume their normal schedules from the coming week onwards. The battle of the hosts will begin again - and may the best ones win!

posted by Jacob Matthan at 22:25 0 comments

Monday, January 02, 2006

No official rating chart for last week:



Ratings for the week ended 30th December 2005:

Due to many Talk Show Hosts being on holisday, there were many show cancellations, many "best of" shows, and many stand-ins with quite unknown hosts, it was not possible to make a genuine ratings chart except that Mike Malloy and Peter Werbe held top spot with the Mike Malloy Show, Peter had a recorded interview show which was good, but was not a Talk Show, and Mike Malloy brought the couple of spots he did for Randi Rhodes, take the Randi Rhodes Show into top reckoning. Tony Trupiano did some spots for Ed Schulz which were really good. Let us hope wins Tony wins his race for the Congress.

Another important development was the termination of Mike Webb on quite flimsy grounds by his station, 710 KIRO Seattle.

I sent this email to the station as my way of expressing my concern.

Dear Sir,

I was greatly disturbed to hear that you had terminated Mike Webb, one of the best Liberal Talk Show Hosts on the Air.

This is the thread at the DU Forum:

"I just talked to Mike Webb (recently fired liberal talk show host)...

In case you don't already know the story Mike was recently fired from 710 KIRO Seattle. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002708...

He is doing okay but he didn't deserve this. What ever happened to being Innocent until proven guilty in this country? Mike got into a car accident and then next thing he knows he got fired and he didn't commit any felony or any crime for that matter. This is a bogus claim, and it really looks like the SPD has a vendetta against him. And while I'm ranting about this what about Tom Delay who is still a US congressmen and Rush who admittedly was doing his show on drugs. This is insane. All this is over $5000 that he didn't even receive from the insurance company."

In the Talk Show Ratings, Mike Webb has consistently been amongst the top for over 2 years.

http://TalkShowRatings.blogspot.com

I hope that you will explain to us, his international listeners, how you made such a radical decision without any legal basis.

I feel confident other Liberal Talk Show Hosts will give your actions the correct airing.

It means we will be dropping your station OFF our ratings if Mike is taken off as it takes a long time (3 years) to get rated on this content rating system-

More fool you than me!

--
Jacob Matthan
Oulu, Finland
http://jmatthan.blogspot.com


I will assess the shows this week to see whether the Talk Show Ratings can be resumed from next week.

Till then, stay tuned and listening to the live Liberal Talk Show Hosts on the internet.

posted by Jacob Matthan at 17:34 0 comments