Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Larry King Fails The Jerry Lewis Telethon Audition

The good news?  Larry King's two-hour Monday night CNN telethon to raise money for the BP oil-saturated snared $2 million.  The bad news?  The ratings sucked.

Monday June 21 cable news ratingzzz here.

4 comments:

  1. Next time, to insure a more attentive audience, maybe they could take hostages, and raise money for their ransom.

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  2. Even the 'celebrities' failed to pull in the numbers, Jim.

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  3. Larry King Live is not the place to do fundraising. And how does the shrimp fisherman get any of the money? Is there a middle man who takes a cut for deciding who gets financial assistance? That never came up.

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  4. Pat: I read somewhere Thursday this a.m. that a Louisiana shrimper committed suicide . . .

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