No, liberal talk radio will not be as sucessful as Limbaugh or Hannity. But there are plenty of conservative hosts down there in the same ratings muck as Franken. And some of the liberal shows could be sucessful, but maybe without the same sucess as Limbaugh and Hannity. Those two are the mecca of talk shows. They are the exception rather than the rule. There are some darn good local liberal hosts.
WHO? Let's see. Whine about Bush. Whine about Rove. Whine about Haliburton. Cuss a lot. Scream bile at anyone who does not conform to the PC dogma. Yeah, that is REAL good radio for people who want a fight instead of THINK.
Sorry Liberal Talk radio sucks because it is no different then what you hear on any of the Alphabet networks or Public TV and Radio or "news papers" Conservative Talk Radio is dominate because it is THE ONLY outlet for the Right. Liberal Talk radio is just same old same old you can get anywhere. You know Joe, you don't HAVE to automatically take the hyper critic role on EVERY issued. You might want to actually THINK once in awhile instead of just automatically being a contrarian.
Listening to live streaming on the Internet.
Re: "The fact remains at one time Limbaugh could boast 20 million. Now just 14.75???? Where did they go?"
You better fire off an inquiry to the author of the article, rarely to reporters delve into such details.
Ten years ago, Limbaugh was about the only game in town. Now, there are dozens of conservative talkers to choose from. People like variety. Try adding up the listenership for all the conservative shows and compare it with the total listenership for the leftist shows and then tell us which side is slipping.
There are some darn good local liberal hosts.
I don't mind listening to Big Eddy, but I turned off Combs half the time. Pretty much all of the liberal talk shows have been dropped here.
This is so easy to answer.
They went to Hannity, O'Reilly, and other CONSERVATIVE talk show hosts. They didn't disappear, just changed their preferences.
Remember, for the longest time and when Rush was touting his 20 million numbers, Rush was IT. I don't suppose people remember the days of such luminaries as Larry King up against Rush. Rush was it for a national conservative talk show host - Hannity was only on in New York, and O'Reilly wasn't even known yet.
It is only natural that people like Laura Inghram and others draw away some of Rush's listeners. There are only so many hours in the day. Here where I live O'Reilly is opposite Rush, thus I'm sure drew away some of Rush's listeners (Hannity is on after Rush, so doesn't draw away listeners, here.)
AirCommunism, though, can't get a foothold anywhere it seems. 1 million for a nationwide network is pathetic - and they are, since they have the potential of XM Satelite/Sirus people listening in that Rush does not have.
>The fact remains at one time Limbaugh could boast 20 million. Now just 14.75???? Where did they go?<
They're probably surfing the web, reading Free Republic and other conservative web sites.
I am one of the formerly loyal listerners. I rarely listen because I don't learn much from his show, plus my job tasks have increased to the point that he'd be distracting.