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Limbaugh would help ABC
For the past week or so. ru
mors have been floating
around that Rush Lim
baugh may be the next co
host for Al Michaels on Monday
Night Football.
For ABC, this is probably one
of the best moves since it made
“Who Wants to be a Millionaire?”
a regular show.
While many people won’t
want to hear some right-wing
conservative for three to four
hours every week, Limbaugh
will, if nothing else, boost the
sagging Nielson ratings of MNF.
It will be another ploy in the re
cent efforts by the network to
save the 30-year-old American
staple. Along with the rumored
Limbaugh addition, ABC has
brought back producer Don
Ohlmeyer, who ran the show dur
ing the Howard Cosell and Don
Meredith days.
When Meredith and Cosell
were in the booth, MNF had its
most success and experienced its
highest popularity. Mainly be
cause people either loved or hat
ed Cosell.
But either way, America tuned
in every Monday night just to
hear Cosell for four hours. He
made MNF what it is today.
What’s most important for ABC
right now is to get that kind of fan
interest again. In the last five
years, MNF has gone through nu
merous line-up changes. The trio
of Al Michaels, Dan Dierdorf, and
Frank uinora, wno worked tne
broadcasts for 10 years from
1987-1997, got a facelift when
Gifford stepped down. ABC re
placed Gifford with the lame
duck Boomer Eiasion.
With ratings continuing to spi
ral downward, the network knew
it needed to revamp the play-by
play booth yet again. This time it
let Dierdorf go and went with
Michaels and Eiasion, a lame duo
at the very least.
So in another attempt to save
the sinking ship, ABC cut Eiasion
loose and is now in the middle of
a search for
someone to
team up
with
Michaels.
While
ABC has
neither con
firmed its
interest in
Limbaugh
nor his re
ported re
cent audition,
it would be
one of the network’s smarter
moves to hire him next season.
Limbaugh has his own daily
talk show on AM radio in which
he spends most of his time ranti
ng and raving about the democ
rats and the Clinton administra
tion.
You would think that Rush and
sports do not go together and that
he has no business in a play-by
Matt
O’Neill
play Doom oi a nationally broad
cast football game.
But that is where you are
wrong.
Limbaugh has a connection to
sports and to America in general.
He was the public relations
man for the Kansas City Royals in
the 1980s and is an avid sports
fan.
He also has a huge following
across the United States and
would draw a lot of people into
watching MNF again.
His die-hard followers would
tune in to get more Limbaugh and
the people who dislike him
would tune in to see him fail or to
make fun of him, much like I do
with Bill Walton on the NBC and
TNT broadcasts of the NBA
games.
And even the average fans who
don’t care one way or another
would watch just because he is
who he is.
He would have the kind of
draw that only Cosell had in the
1970s, which is what the network
wants. Although Limbaugh said
he is not trying to be another
Cosell, he will be — at least for a
while.
Either way, Limbaugh would
do what ABC wants.
Get ratings.
Matt O’Neill is a sports reporter for the
Oregon Daily Emerald. His views do not
necessarily represent those of the
Emerald. He can be reached via e-mail
at moneill@gladstone.uoregon.edu.
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Annual series of talk by the Muslim Student Association
Young American Muslim
Experiences: Life and Challenge
Ruben, Richie, Phil Tareq, Kamall, and
Yusef. Narrative Experience to the path and
community in the United States. Date: May
25th Time: 7 p.m. Place: Fir Room, EMU.
Muslim Behavior and Daily Life
By Mohamed Soliman, M. Econ. Date: June
2nd Time: 7 p.m. Place: 204 Condon Hall.
Qur'an, Knowledge, and Science
By Prof. Mahmoud Dhouadi, visiting
researcher from Tunisia, sociology
department. The place of knowledge and
science in the Qur'anic perspective. Date:
June 1st Time: 7 p.m. Place: 204 Condon Hall.
Muslims and the Media:
The True Lies
Tammam Adi, Ph.D. Discussing stereotypes
about Muslims and Islam: such as abuse of
women, terrorism, and hostility. Date: May
31st Time: 7 p.m. Place: Fir Room, EMU.
Image of Women in the Qur'an
By Prof. Mahmoud Dhouadi, visiting
researcher from the University of Tunisia,
department of sociology. Date: May 30th
Time: 7p.m. Place: Fir Room, EMU.
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