Posted on 11/09/2005 9:47:20 AM PST by raccoonradio
List of top talk radio hosts (estimated audience) is up at TALKERS magazine. Al Franken comes in at #13, a mere 12.5 million fewer listeners than Rush.
The cutoff is one million, and, amazingly, a few "progressive" talk hosts made the cut. Not sure how accurate these figures are and, again, the likes of Franken, Schulz, and Steph Miller still lag way behind Rush, Hannity, Savage, Ingraham etc. (Note that these are TALKERS magazine estimates and are not necessarily the same as Arbitron ratings figures)
---------------------------------------- Still at the top is Rush Limbaugh followed by Sean Hannity, who again moved toward narrowing the gap between the two. Michael Savage remains a powerful force and Dr. Laura Schlessinger shows amazing resilience considering many news-talk stations’ realignment toward more politics and less relationships programming during the past year. Limbaugh and Hannity –– the nation’s leading political talkers –– showed some overall erosion since the prior survey, but a study of news-talk radio trends over the past 15 years indicates that this is common in the ratings periods immediately following an election year. More recent indicators over the summer show that both hosts, as well as political talk in general, are moving back up to their prior positions.
Hosts on the upward path include Neal Boortz, Mike Gallagher, Bill O’Reilly, Doug Stephan, Jerry Doyle, Bill Bennett, Ed Schultz, Tony Snow, Michael Medved and Dave Ramsey.
Making their first appearance on the survey are Al Franken, Alan Colmes and Stephanie Miller.
Tony Snow TIED with Al Franken. Rats.
I'll take choice #2. I'd sooner listen to the sound of a fax machine answering a mis-dialed phone call.
Good gosh, can't anyone in the media do basic math? If there is a tie at 5th, the next lowest one isn't 6th, it is 7th. There are actually 34 shows ranked, which would properly be shown as:
1) Rush Limbaugh 13.75+
2) Sean Hannity 12.50+
3) Michael Savage 8+
4) Dr. Laura Howard Stern--tie 7.75+
6) Laura Ingraham 5+
7)Neil Boortz Mike Gallagher--tie 3.75 (these shows tend to be on some weaker signals)
9) Jim Bohannon, Clark Howard, Bill O'Reilly, Doug Stephan--all tied 3.25
13) Glenn Beck, Dr. Joy Browne, Don Imus, George Noory--all tied 2.75 (time to retire to the ranch, Don-O?)
17) Jerry Doyle, Kim Kommando, Dave Ramsay, Michael Medved--all tied 2.25
21) Bill Bennett, Jim Rome (tied) 2.0
23) Bob Brinker, Ed Schulz Tied 1.75
25) Tom Leykis, G. Gordon Liddy tied 1.50
27) Jim Cramer, Al Franken, Tony Snow tied 1.25
30) Alan Colmes, Dr. Dean Edell, Phil Hendrie, Rusty Humphries, Stephanie Miller--all tied 1.0
I was just copying what TALKERS had on their site :)
Sorry for not being more clear, I was criticizing only the magazine, which did the rankings.
At least, not on terrestrial radio.
What's even more surprising is that we don't get G. Gordon Liddy-a hometown boy-here.
Yup, knew you were but just mentioning that TALKERS did it that way. And I admit a basic addition error in a post I did earlier where I added up a few libtalk hosts and got 4.75 when it really was 5 (million). In other words, add about 4 of the top rated lib talk hosts and you get 5 million listeners
while Rush has over 13 million all by himself!
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