Posted on 10/26/2005 8:44:33 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache
Ratings Gap Between Rush Limbaugh and Liberal Talkers Looms Large
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 26 -- According to the Arbitron Summer 2005 ratings survey for New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, Mr. Rush Limbaugh beat liberal talkers in the ratings game. In New York, Mr. Limbaugh's Persons 12+ audience is more than three times larger than Mr. Franken's audience. Heard Monday through Friday on WABC-AM from noon-3 p.m., The Rush Limbaugh Show scored, among Persons 12+, a 4.8 share with an average quarter-hour audience of 159,400 listeners. Mr. Al Franken, who airs at the same time on WLIB-AM, has a Persons 12+ share of 1.4 with an average quarter-hour audience of 47,800 listeners.
Mr. Jerry Springer also airs on WLIB-AM and has a Person 12+ share of 1.0 with an average quarter-hour audience of 30,100.
Below are their rankings among all AM and FM programming for Persons 12+ in New York:
Host Share Avg. Quarter Hour Rank (all AM/FM (Persons 12+) (Persons 12+) programming-persons 12+) Rush Limbaugh 4.8 159,400 3 Al Franken 1.4 47,800 23 Jerry Springer 1.0 30,100 27
In Los Angeles, The Rush Limbaugh Show is heard Monday through Friday on KFI-AM from 9 a.m.-noon and scored a Persons 12+ share of 4.8 with an average quarter-hour audience of 112,700 listeners. Mr. Franken, who airs at the same time on KTLK-AM, scored among Persons 12+ a 1.3 share with an average quarter-hour audience of 29,500 listeners. Mr. Limbaugh ranks #1 in his daypart for Persons 12+ and draws 3.5 times the listeners of Mr. Franken.
In addition to Mr. Limbaugh and Mr. Franken, here are the numbers for liberal talker Mr. Ed Shultz, who broadcasts at a different time:
Host Share Avg. Quarter Hour Rank (all AM/FM (Persons 12+) (Persons 12+) programming-persons 12+) Rush Limbaugh 4.8 112,700 1 Al Franken 1.3 29,500 28 Ed Shultz 0.9 22,900 33
Heard Monday through Friday on WLS-AM in Chicago from 11 a.m.-2 p.m., The Rush Limbaugh Show scored a Persons 12+ share of 5.9 with an average quarter-hour audience of 96,300 listeners. Mr. Franken, who airs at the same time on WCPT-AM, scored among Persons 12+, a 0.9 share with an average quarter-hour audience of 14,900 listeners. Mr. Limbaugh ranked #1 in his daypart and draws 6.5 times the listeners of Mr. Franken.
In addition to Mr. Limbaugh and Mr. Franken, here are the numbers for other liberal talkers in Chicago, who broadcast at a different time:
Host Share Avg. Quarter Hour Rank (all AM/FM (Persons 12+) (Persons 12+) programming-persons 12+) Rush Limbaugh 5.9 96,300 1 Al Franken 0.9 14,900 29 Ed Shultz 0.9 14,300 31 Jerry Springer 0.4 6,500 42
Known as the media pundit who reshaped the political landscape with his entertaining and informative brand of conservatism, Mr. Limbaugh is also widely credited with resuscitating AM radio by many industry experts.
Source: Premiere Radio Networks
Content, content, content.
Have they outsourced their press release writing to Nigeria?
"Huh! The people! What do they know? The rabble listen to the propaganda from Limbaugh, while the truth is available from Al Franken! But do they care for the truth? No! They cannot handle the truth! That is why the people need an iron hand to guide them! We will seize power, and ban this Limbaugh fellow and force the peasants to listen to Franken! They will find him quite amusing ... or else." [/Hillary]
They can never come near Rush. Selling lies is tougher and now they know it. Go Rush!
He's not a Commie. He's a limousine Liberal, and a twit.
They can never come near Rush. Selling lies is tougher and now they know it. Go Rush!
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If it were not for the big-money liberal fools, like Comrade Soros, AA would never have "resurfaced". Leftist talk radio has ALWAYS been a loser. And with the left continuing to get more radical, it just makes it worse. Such a lost, empty effort.
Dear Mike, You know, an easy way to tell if a rant has a point worth listening to is to count how many swear words and personal attacks are contained in it. The more swear words and personal attacks, the more it becomes apparent that the individual speaking has nothing of real value to say. I’ve never listened to you before but so far in 10 minutes, all I hear you say are swear words and the calling of Bush and Cheney bastards, liars and so forth. Do you have a point – and is it backed up with anything of substance? That’s what I thought – you are mad and frothing at the mouth and are beyond bereft of a rational point of view. XXXX XXXXXX
A couple of minutes later, I received this reply back which says it all.........Note: This form letter is sent as a response to certain emails sent to the Mike Malloy Program, emails that are so over the top, so insane, so full of inane, right-wing horseshit as to render them incomprehensible and not worth asking Mike to read. Your email qualifies you to receive the form letter. Thank you for supporting the Mike Malloy Program. Due to the heavy volume of mail Mike receives, he does not read nor respond to each individual email. However, we do appreciate your taking time to write, especially at a time when the airwaves – both radio and television – are so dominated by Republican thugs and liars, phony “Christians,” and red-state morons who hate America and hate Democracy. Thank you for listening to Mike’s program Staff Mike Malloy Program
What conclusions can be drawn about a lib network that features Jerry Springer?
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How about this clown Ed Schultz though? While traveling I occasionally tune into whatever will come through the radio and have listened.
It sounds very much to me like he's trying to mimic Rush.
Problem for him is that he simply doesn't have the talent or unflinching beliefs that demonstrate conviction in what he says.
Heard him reply to a question yesterday about the fairness of asking 'If you know now what you didn't know then' - he was stumped.
If Liberalism was as popular as Conservatism Randi Rhodes and Ed Shultz would be as rich as Rush Limbaugh!
Actually he is a commie.
Traditional Democrats are now liberals and liberals are now marxists.
Ask a liberal if they would vote for John Kennedy. He was too far to the right for them.
I tried that experiment with my inlaws. I told them everything about Bush then I asked would they vote for him based on those facts. They said no. Then I told them it wasn't Bush I was describing but JFK.
Isn't this the best news?. As I sit by my trusty portable radio and wait for the elder statesman himself, I do bait my breath.
Of course this Plame business is something that has the El Rusbo firing the heavy artillery. Can it all come right? Rhetorical questions here. Oh,radio news says unlikely indictments today. A bit of a long screed here- sorry.
One more thing. In the early am,a few nights ago, a signal came in on my radio.It was ranting,almost hysterical, liberal. I listened. The station was WCKY and fading. Then a song came eulogising a Mr Franken. Then a strange ,almost alien rant in a foreign language, drowned out WCKY. A harsh man's voice in a stream of words. Ah well. El Rushbo time- gotta go.
If I was a horse I would insulted by your post.
The writers of scams coming out of Nigeria are too honest to work for Airless America.
Mike Malloy should be examined for rabies.
The stuff that comes out of a horse's ass is at least useful...
Where Franken goes, nothin' grows.
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