He’s doing swimmingly in individual markets.
Michael himself has said that he doesn’t give a rat’s ass what happens to him in drive time — he says that his core audience is quite different from the afternoon drive audience, and frankly, I don’t think he gives three shits what people think about him.
If this afternoon drive career advances, good.
If not, so be it.
He could care less, frankly. His life is all about Teddy, some Italian Merlot and his hole-in-the-wall favorite Chinese joint in Chinatown.
In the real world, it is clear that he is fading away, 3.5 million listeners puts him way down the list, way, way down.