Reply #9: Yes it is! Sirius Left actually looks pretty good amongst talk channels... [View All]

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... and that's not even Air America voices. Air America looks like it does well with the AQH rating (raw rating hours) even though their cume is higher. Kind of the opposite of what happens between Fox News vs. CNN, where the more conservative Fox News gets higher raw ratings, but lower cumes than CNN. I suspect it's because XM listeners (and perhaps Sirius listeners) have more other right wing hosts on other channels to choose from than the progressive folks do. Therefore the raw ratings of both of the progressive channels are quite a bit higher than the right wing channels.

Source, AQH, AQH Rating, Cume, Cume Rating
Sirius Patriot - 1700, 0.0, 46800, 0.02
Sirius Left - 3000, 0.0, 59100, 0.02
XM166 America Right - 5000, 0.0, 132400, 0.05
XM167 Air America Radio - 7200, 0.00 109600, 0.04