[CheshireTheCat]

This is not as good news as it sounds. NPR's podcast listenership is up.

[CondoleezzaProtege]

NPR's podcast listenership is up.

Indeed, an area where conservatives and conservative intellectuals need to improve upon.

[BenLurkin]

Listen to NPR while driving to work?

Guaranteed to put in someone a pissy mood even before they sit down at their desk.

[vaskypilot]

The Washington DC area conservative radio station (WMAL) has ratings through the roof. As a teleworker, I am listening more during the day. It appears some people only listen to NPR for traffic and weather.

[rhinohunter]

This is not as good news as it sounds. NPR is federally funded, so ratings are really irrelevant.

[fwdude]

Now where’s that tiny violin of mine?

[W.]

Sleepytime radio...

[dfwgator]

I imaging the local Sports Talk Radio stations have taken a massive hit as well.

I listened to The Ticket here in DFW for years, haven’t listened to it in months.

[Paladin2]

Defunding needs to occur.

[newfreep]

NPR...communist propaganda spoken softly for believability.

[jughandle]

In the competitive world NPR wouldn’t exist.

[T.B. Yoits]

It became clear 25 years ago that radio was aiming for the captive audience of commuters stuck in their cars or buses.

Prior to that, I would listen to the radio while working on stuff, looking forward to the late night Friday and Saturday harder rock and b-sides.

Once the private stations sold out to large conglomerates (which may have been inevitable anyway), it all went down hill.

It wasn't video that killed the radio star, it was the mp3.

[Cboldt]

-- NPR's podcast listenership is up. --

Yep. They dominate the podcast ratings.

[JonPreston]

Broadcast ratings for nearly all of NPR's radio shows took a steep dive in major markets this spring, as the coronavirus pandemic kept many Americans from commuting to work and school

This is the first sentence of the article. If anyone ever asks me why I don't bother reading most articles that are posted, this would be a good example.

WHO LISTENS TO NPR ON THEIR WAY TO SCHOOL???

What pure slop.

[Pilated]

No thanks I would rather have dead silence than to listen to any npr.

[dfwgator]

[reg45]

I lost the last reason for listening to NPR when Car Talk ended.

[mrsmith]

I don’t know, but I suspect their views have gotten so far out that they’ve lost listeners who would put up with it for the classical music.

Of course, they would want some other explanation.

[KarlInOhio]

Recently on an episode of Wait Wait Don't Tell Me the "contestants" were making jokes about homosexuals that would have gotten any right wing radio host tossed off the air. I wish I could quote the details, but I was surprised.

If you get past the sonorous NPR announcing style and pay attention to their stories you can find enough logical fallacies in one show to teach an entire course.

One blatant example was "proving" that illegal aliens have no effect on wages because the meat processing plants in one town where a lot of illegals worked were about the same as a plant in a town with few illegals. But the two towns were only about 20 miles apart so it would be an easy commute between the two. NPR pretended that 20 miles was outside the range someone would travel for work, especially away from NYC.

[Pennsyltucky Boy]

Many NPR listeners have had enough of their predictably leftist take on ever possible topic, or non-topic that they attempt to turn into an issue. They didn’t used to lay on the liberal so thick. Now it is just non-stop leftist progressive propaganda. I like in depth coverage and was once a listener. No more and never again.

[bitt]

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