Peter Werbe holds 1st and 2nd spot this week

Peter Werbe was hosting the Mike Malloy Show all last week. Although his style is completely different from Mike's, he managed to keep the Mike Malloy show at the top of the talk show ratings, while his own show, held its 2nd spot.

It is difficult to know whether John Rothmann is a Liberal or whether he is just posing as one. His hypothetical questions and the way he treatsd some of his callers seems to point to his roots as a Nixonian, the Republican Government in which he served. I will have to watch this show more closely, as much of what John Rothmann says is far far from the Liberal Agenda and more Zionist.

Ray Taliaferro, Bernie Ward, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mike Papantonio, still have great shows. Stephanie Miller was on holiday and her bubliness was not conveyed by her stand-in. Laura Flanders has a balanced show which keeps her amongst the top shows.

Randi was on TV and then she could not stop talking about her host. This is Randi at her worst as she follows the syndrome that the "last person who is nice to me is right". She kept talking about Lou Dobbs and how her 4 minutes on the show wass the greatest thing that could have happened in the universe. This performance, plus the way she overtalks on her callers, has dropped her ratings to the rock bottom, just ahead of John Rothmann.

Thom Hartmann is getting stale as he keeps repeating and repeating, but his sense of history is great. However, he still uses the micro-vision in many instances to influence his macro-views.

With all due regard, The Young Turks do not seem to have much idea as to how to run a TV programme. I wish they would stop expending such a huge amount of their funds with such boring visual TV! Stick to Radio is probably the best advice I can give them.

Al Franken is off the ratings and Sam Ceder did not help him get on them. Janeane Garofalo was probably the only person who gushed over am's performance on the Al Franken show!

Ratings for the week ended 26th March 2006:

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


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


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


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


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


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



7. Thom Hartmann **** 5 shows a week


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


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


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


11. Nate Clay ** 1 show a week


12. The Young Turks (Cenk Uygur, Ben Mankiewicz and Jill Pike) ** 5 shows a week


13. Ed Schultz** 5 shows a week


14. The Stephanie Miller Show 5 shows a week - **


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


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


17. John Rothmann * 2 shows a week

Unrated this week:

• Mike Webb ** 5 shows a week


• Revolution in the Air (Lizz Brown) ** 5 shows a week Unrated - Not Live


• Radio Inside Scoop (Mark Levine) ***4 shows a week Unrated - Not Live


• The Al Franken Show 5 shows a week


• Springer on the Radio (Jerry Springer) 5 shows a week


• Guy James 1 show a week - Not on air currently


• Morning Sedition (Marc Maron, Mark Riley) *** 5 shows a week Removed from Air America Schedule

Look forward to great week of Liberal Talk Radio, thanks to such hosts as Mike and Peter.