Posted on 03/07/2009 2:35:05 PM PST by libh8er
How many people actually listen to Rush Limbaugh, the radio talk titan White House officials have spent the past week characterizing as "the head of the Republican Party"?
According to what Limbaugh delights in calling "the drive-by media," the number varies wildly. Is it 30 million (Pat Buchanan on MSNBC), 20 million (Time magazine, ABC News), 19 million (Fox News), 14 million (CNN), or "14.2 million to about 25 million" (The Washington Post)?
Answer: Maybe.
Limbaugh is widely acknowledged to be the most popular talk-radio host, as evidenced by the record $400 million, eight-year contract he signed with his syndicator last July. But estimates of Limbaugh's nationwide (and overseas) audience are exercises in guesswork, slippery methodology and suspect data. Limbaugh himself has muddied the water with the claim that he reaches 20 million people a week, although there's no independent support for that figure.
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You give them too much credit.
Sit around the dinner table and you have a bigger audience than MSNBC.
Yeah, he earns $50,000,000 dollars a year because nobody can figure out how many people listen to him. Except for his advertisers.
20 million individuals tuning into the show at some point during the week. It also includes folks like me who absorb every syllable coming out of his mouth and into the Golden EIB mic and finally out of my iPod..
20 Million here in Texas alone!
Or, you can listen by the hour with no interruptions at his site.
Rush is on now here. http://radiotime.com/station/s_28771/WFLA_970.aspx
Anything is bigger than audience numbers over at MSNBC.
One good thing about radio is that it gives you the freedom to do other things as you listen.
Add to this all of the other conservative talk radio hosts that exist before, during, and after Rush’s show, including overnight hosts and weekend hosts, and this is a huge chunk of people that listen to conservative talk radio. Really getting rid of “everything non-leftist” will be seriously overreaching, and it will severely backfire for the left, even if it’s not so obvious so quickly after it’s officially done by the left.
And MSNBC reaches 237 per night. Rush beats them without getting out of bed.
Thank you!
Now listening while Freeping!
Well, the basic message that he gets across is okay; it’s just that it takes too long to get it across (for me, anyway). It’s way too time-consuming, so that’s my personal major complaint.
And, if I were going to listen to him, then it would be by some method like podcasts, because I would have to pick the time for me to listen. And I would rarely ever listen to a program every day. It’s more likely for me to listen in a group, all at once, maybe once every two or three weeks and skip through it, for what I don’t want to hear. That’s the way I like to listen — so a lot of the stuff would be “lost” to me, because it might be “time-limited” and listening to it two or three weeks later wouldn’t be the same.
I do listen to radio shows, but they’re more along the lines of Christian ministry programs and/or preachers. And, for them, I will listen just exactly the way I was mentioning above.
Furthermore, I do prefer “written material” for getting information across to people, because you can scan the pages very quickly and skip the stuff you don’t want to go over, and stop and look more carefully at other stuff.
And you can speed read it, in any case. That makes a transcript of the show much more desirable than the actual show itself (per Rush...). I just want certain “information” and not a lot of time spent getting it.
I know what the show is accomplishing (in that they paid him so much money) is that they need an audience for a specified period of time, so they can sell advertising. Well, I’m not personally interested in the advertising (although that’s what they’ve gotta do..., but I don’t have to cooperate... LOL...). I just want to get down to the facts in a hurry, and a transcript can do that.
Thanks! :o)
WaPo's own figures say 25 muillion, but no-- in the end it doesn't matter --he's the 800 pound gorilla regardless, and all the urine-soaked liberal underwear in the capital won't change that.
Here’s how radio audiences are measured, like how TV audiences are measured.
TV has Nielson....
Radio has Arbitron....
If this dumb*ss WaPo reporter was fact checking for $h*t, he wouldn’t even get a smell....
Let’s count the number of people who have heard of journalist Paul Fahrsi.
Okay, I just checked over there and see that they want $50 for a year of the 24/7 membership. Ummm..., sorry..., I’ll try the podcasts and maybe look at his transcripts — but not pay $50.... :-)
I won’t “keep a schedule” with any radio program or TV show. I record shows and watch them whenever I want. I could record the program live (on my computer) and then go back and listen to it later, but if the program won’t provide that for me, for free (like a lot of program I listen to, do...) then I don’t want to work at that myself.
So, it looks like I’ll just listen to what others are saying about Rush’s programs...
He so obscure, I didn’t get his name right.
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