Limbaugh's Audience Size? It's Largely Up in the Air (when every other attack fails..)

WaPo ^ | Mar 07, 2009 | Paul Farhi

[libh8er]

When every other attack on Rush fails, challenge his audience size..

[Tamatoa]

Hahahahahaha...

Rush wins again

[worst-case scenario]

What IS his audience size? Does it matter?

[2banana]

I thought size didn’t matter...?

[Billthedrill]

Well, whatever it is, all of this free publicity isn’t going to do anything but help. Thanks, libs!

[pallis]

When they get through trying to measure the millions who listen to Rush on the radio, they can go onto trying to measure how many millions listen to him over he Internet.

[steve8714]

Easy; bigger than CNN; bigger than MSNBC; bigger than ABC.

[EyeGuy]

Easy answer.

Look at the rates his advertisers are willing to pay.

Unlike talentless journalists and politicians, businessmen rely on facts, and will DEMAND accurate audience measures before they fork over advertising dollars.

[sobieski]

I think they know enough to justify $400mn over 8 years.

[libh8er]

Actually bigger than all of them put together.

[outofstyle]

But estimates of Limbaugh's nationwide (and overseas) audience are exercises in guesswork

On the other hand, estimates as to the readership of the Washington Post are exercises in nano statististics.

[Cyber Ninja]

Rush Limbaugh...

Who?

[Star Traveler]

While others do have fun listening to Rush, I can’t do it. For one, I just can’t see spending that kind of time. It’s just too much time involved. I would never get anything else done. It’s bad enough just participating on Free Republic (for “time” considerations... LOL...).

So, I pick Free Republic over Rush... :-)

[InterceptPoint]

I often wondered whether that 20,000,000 per week is the same 4,000,000 people listening 5 days a week or 20,000,000 "unique visitors" to use the Internet term.

If anyone knows the answer for sure they should post what they've heard.

[popdonnelly]

Why don’t these people get a life? Better yet, why don’t they analyze what’s going on in the government, instead of exercising their obvious fascination with Rush Limbaugh?

This country reminds me more and more of “1984”. Got to have somebody to hate. I don’t remember who the villain was. Anybody know?

[stylin19a]

ROTFLMAO

They have no idea about the size of Rush’s audience, but they know exactly the number illegals (12 million - hasn't changed in 8 years) and the exact number of uninsured (48 million except 6 months ago, dingy harry proclaimed 50 million)

[carolinacrazy]

“Excuse us why we pick some fly crap out of pepper.” Worthless print.

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

“bigger than MSNBC”

I have a bigger audience than MSNBC, and I’m not even on the radio!

[steve8714]

I don’t have that number but I suspect it’s true. 22 million is what he has said, and I think that is independently arrived at.