"I'm on a Mexican Radio-o-o-o----o!"
Posted on 04/23/2010 12:15:12 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
The new “Rush Radio” station has taken off, nearly quadrupling its audience since flipping from a Spanish music station to a conservative news talker last month.
WXKS-AM (1200) - which snagged Rush Limbaugh from right-wing rival WRKO-AM (680) - fetched a 1.1 share of all Boston listeners older than 6 during the month of March, according to Arbitron ratings released yesterday.
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"I'm on a Mexican Radio-o-o-o----o!"
Good for them
What happened to WRKO?
I don’t know about snatched. I’d say, hit the jackpot.
WRKO dumped RUSH in favor of some local RINO consultant.
I’d love to see those ratings - I bet RKO dropped 90% between 12-3pm when they dropped RUSH.
Imagine that,even the Boston LIBS are FINALLY coming around?
WRKO is going to have to cling to Howie Carr to keep afloat. I just discovered Rush Radio and I don’t need 680 on my memory anymore!
Rush and WRKO split a few weeks ago. WRKO still has Howie Carr, Michael Savage, Laura and Rush was replaced by a local person named Charley Manning. 1200 has Hannity and Beck among others.
I’ll bet the new station is Clear Channel. Clear Channel is a parent company for Rush and they grabbed him for their own benefit in every market they could once the current contract was up.
I’ve been listening to Rush Radio since the first day he moved to 1200AM. I love it, Hannity and Beck are aired on that station too. Also, I email RKO and told them that i’d be following Rush to his new station.
Well no surprise there. Who the heck listens to Spanish radio anyways, apart from the LaRaza types?
And WRKO suspended Howie for a week because they didn’t like his criticism of the station.
(Maybe if they let Howie go when he wanted to a few years ago, he wouldn’t be criticising the morons that run the station...)
Sounds like there are still some reasons to listen to it.
Rush Radio is great!
Rush’s syndicator, Clear Channel, has a strategic plan to get him on stations they own, preferably on FM along with Hannity, Beck. etc. in every big market that they can. They are calling this format Rush Radio.
104.7 here in Pittsburgh is not called Rush Radio, but that is basically what they are. They dropped from #3 to #6 in the latest ratings. I think because they seem to have a lot of technical glitches, plus they carry Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball and make us sit through 20-0 blowouts.
They’ve also got Glenn Beck on from 9 to 12, plus excellent streaming quality on their website.
Well you guys have Garrett Jones and Andrew McCutchen to be proud of ;)
Sensible talk is catching on.
Congrats to the new Boston Rush Radio.....however..
Indicative of how Liberal Boston is, I guess...but a 1.1 share of a radio audience is quite low for Rush’s program, in any size market. In most markets, a 1.1 rating is not cause for celebration....it is a cause for termination, for the station management.
WRKO went on for another 20-25 years as (mostly) a fantastic talk radio station. They had their missteps and mistakes (such as Marjorie Clapprood and Tom Leykis) but basically they delivered a steady and solid diet of conservative/libertarian talk radio. (Gene Burns and Jerry Williams were two of my favorites.)
A few years ago, they began to suck rather badly and today, they are truly pathetic. Even their radio signal sucks. After dark, you pretty much have to live within 20 miles of Boston to even pick it up properly. Even the one decent host they have left (Howie Carr) hates being there. He'll have to turn out the lights when he finally leaves.
Another good talk station in Boston (beside Rush Radio) is 96.9FM. It's got more of a libertarian bent (Jay Severin, Michelle McPhee, Michael Graham) but mostly good stuff. Just ignore it in the morning as their morning lineup is awful.
Quadruples the ratings overnight. LOL.
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