Air America's Ratings Suck!

With all the talk and hype surrounding Air America Radio, I thought they’d at least have decent ratings. So I did some googleing today. I was wrong. So very very wrong. I’ve compiled a fairly rough list from 3 websites that rank radio shows by popularity. Here’s the websites:

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/story/373426p-317475c.html
http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/2005/05/annual-talk-host-rankings-revealed.html
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/12/1/14399/2475

Here’s a list that I kinda slapped together based on the above links:

Rank Talkshow Host Listeners (In Millions)
1 Rush Limbaugh 14.75
2 Sean Hannity 13
3 Michael Savage 8.75
4 Dr. Laura Schlessinger 7.5
4 Howard Stern 8.5
6 Laura Ingraham 5
7 Neal Boortz 3.5
8 Mike Gallagher 3.5
8 Jim Bohannon 3.75
10 Clark Howard 3.25
10 Bill O’Reilly 3.25
10 Doug Stephen 3.25
13 Glenn Beck 3
14 Dr. Joy Browne 2.75
14 Don Imus 2.75
14 George Noory 2.75
17 Jerry Doyle 1.5
18 Kim Komando 2
18 Michael Medved 2
18 Dave Ramsey 2
21 Bill Bennett 1.25
21 Jim Rome 2
23 Bob Brinker 1.75
23 Ed Schultz 1.5
25 Tom Leykis 1.25
26 G. Gordon Liddy 1
26 Jim Cramer 1
28 Al Franken 1
28 Tony Snow 1
30 Alan Colmes 1
31 Dr. Dean Edell 1
31 Phil Hendrie 1
31 Rusty Humphreys 1
31 Stephanie Miller 1

The ONLY two Air America pundits (out of 16) to crack the top 34 are Al Franken and Ed Schultz. They’re 2 for 34! Put another way, they’re batting .059. The Houston Texans have a better record. That’s terrible. What’s worse, if you factor the total percentage of listeners at Air America to the number of listeners on the above list, AAR listeners make up between 2 and 3% of the total. My gosh! Let there be no more doubt of AAR’s financial status.

UPDATE: I made a mistake. It turns out that Ed Schultz isn't actually an Air America Radio host. So even though I painted a dismal picture for the liberal station, it wasn't bad enough. Just one of the top 34 radio stations in the country is an Air America program -roughly 1% or the listeners in the top 34.