1) Rush Limbaugh 13.75+
2) Sean Hannity 12.50+
3) Michael Savage 8+
4) Dr. Laura Howard Stern--tie 7.75+
5) Laura Ingraham 5+
6)Neil Boortz Mike Gallagher--tie 3.75 (these shows tend to be on some weaker signals)
7) Jim Bohannon, Clark Howard, Bill O'Reilly, Doug Stephan--all tied 3.25
8) Glenn Beck, Dr. Joy Browne, Don Imus, George Noory--all tied 2.75 (time to retire to the ranch, Don-O?)
9) Jerry Doyle, Kim Kommando, Dave Ramsay, Michael Medved--all tied 2.25
10) Bill Bennett, Jim Rome (tied) 2.0
11) Bob Brinker, Ed Schulz Tied 1.75
12) Tom Leykis, G. Gordon Liddy tied 1.50
13) Jim Cramer, Al Franken, Tony Snow tied 1.25
14) Alan Colmes, Dr. Dean Edell, Phil Hendrie, Rusty Humphries, Stephanie Miller--all tied 1.0
All estimates are from TALKERS magazine and DO NOT NECESSARILY MEAN ARBITRON RATINGS
So Rush has 11 TIMES as many listeners??
>>Hosts on the upward path
Of these, only one is liberal. Colmes and Miller, at #13,
make their first entries on the chart. If we're gonna have a talk host whose last name is Miller, why can't it be Zell!
For fun, add up all the millions for conservative talk hosts and compare it to the cumulative figures for Franken,
S. Miller, Colmes, and Schulz (4.75 to be exact). Do the math on the others. It isn't even close.
Randi Rhodes and several other Air SCAmerica hosts didn't
even make the cut.
I can't believe Stuart Smalley beat Phil Hendrie! Hendrie has talent.
A neurotic who could breakdown at any minute is pretty entertaining.
Al Who?
"I'm not good enough, I'm not smart enough, and doggone it, nobody listens to me."
Tony-Snow-Oughtta-Be-On-There PING
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