Rush Limbaugh woes continue, as Foes celebrate ratings slide

National Ledger ^ | 06/18/2015

[SeekAndFind]

Rush Limbaugh's woes in the ratings game of partisan talk radio are being highlighted by his left-wing enemies, Media Matters is gleefully reporting that the radio talk show host is on a downward slide.

Salon puts this headline on the piece, "Rush Limbaugh’s downward spiral continues: Another demotion, another step toward irrelevancy."

The piece highlights a recent move down the radio dial Limbaugh was forced to make after being dumped by his host station in Boston, Mass.

Limbaugh is still on the air in Boston but the conservative radio talk show has a new AM home in the city and it "currently boasts a 0.6 rating, trails four non-commercial stations in the market, and becomes yet another big-city, cellar-dwelling outpost that Limbaugh is forced to call home," Salon reports.

The have a lot more Rush bashing here.

Earlier, the New York Daily News revealed that sagging ratings might mean less money for Limbaugh in his next contract noting that "the ratings for syndicated conservative talk have flattened or dropped for several years, despite the gift of a Democratic President to hammer, and some think the format is wearing down."

Daryl Parks, a former talk host, media blogger and self-described Republican is quoted by NYDN and has the opinion that the schtick is wearing thin,

“Today’s talk radio is fast fading into the sunset because of a format stuck with 1990s rhetoric,” he says.

“A constant right-wing political drumbeat no longer resonates.”

The article notes that Rush "lost many advertisers after the Sandra Fluke birth control controversy in 2012, and that could affect what his syndicator, Premiere, will offer when his eight-year, $50 million a year deal expires in 2016."

Despite the ratings woes and aging demographics for the show he is still the "face of syndicated conservative talk radio," according to the NYDN.

[Arthur McGowan]

Rush isn’t entertaining anymore. No song parodies, no funny fake ads.

And Rush, like Mark and Sean, hasn’t been honest about Hussein. All three of them, and most other talkers, have participated in the Conspiracy of Respectability about the crudely-forged “birth certificate”—the one typed on six different typewriters—and all the other evidence that Hussein is an illegal-alien foreign agent.

Nobody goes to Rush for information anymore. He offers philosophical musings and mildly amusing comments on ephemeral news items.

[Arthur McGowan]

Burns and Allen. Jack Benny. Fibber McGee and Molly. All of them: two 60-second commercials in 30 minutes.

[Alex Murphy]

I think three things took the wind out of his sails: (1) the utter duplicity of the GOP after the 1994 congressional victories (during the past 20 years they've made it clear they're part of the Uniparty); (2) his marriage to Marta and related divorce; and (3) the prosecutorial witchhunt over his misuse of prescription drugs.

I would add one more:
(4) three years after his misuse of OxyContin, Limbaugh was detained at the Palm Beach International Airport, arriving from a "private vacation in the Dominican Republic" carrying a bottle of Viagra prescribed under a different name. Was Limbaugh's trip actually a "sex tour"?

[Hot Tabasco]

Rush will still be on in Boston.

Several years ago WJR in Detroit moved Savage into the two hour 3 - 5 PM Hannity time slot and Savage bragged for months.

Of course what he failed to mention is that the Patriot network picked up Hannity, gave him 3 hours ( 3 - 6 p.m.)and put him on both their AM 1400 station AND their 92.7 FM station..........LOL!

[chimera]

I don't listen to him as much as I used to for those and other reasons. Football and golf discussions/promotions turn me off because I have ESPN and The Golf Channel for those. Don't have young kids anymore so promoting those time travel kiddie books makes me switch channels. Same with tea commercials. The worst is wandering off on tangents and never getting back to the main point. They ought to have a boxing glove on an extender so that Snerdly can bop Rush in the head every time he utters the dreaded phrase “By The Way”. If not, Rush becomes the Master of Asides.

[humblegunner]

I am still mad at him for ignoring Obama’s eligibility and the O’s many posted forgeries.

Yeah, because you know SO much more about running a successful radio show than he does.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

And that is fostered in the schools as their is no time to discuss anything in depth while pedaling to the metrics of Common Core and every other education mandate.

This is why schools have bells and periods, to prevent the habit of investigating anything in depth.

The lesson of the bells is to study a subject when and how someone else tells you to.

Mass government schooling has always been about establishing intellectual dependence.

The Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher

[bert]

Rush is from Missouri ya know. Like those others from Missouri, Tom and Huck, Rush will show up at his own funeral

[1010RD]

I’ve not listened to Rush in about six years. He’s boring and transparent. I enjoy the give and take online, better.

[itsahoot]

I think his ratings have fallen because people like me are sick and tired of him diverting off to talk about Deflate Gate or whatever football story there is and try to connect it to the topic of the day.

Nope he doesn't broadcast in Spanish. </s>

[itsahoot]

Michael Savage, the "conhservative" that gave us Border, Language and Culture bumper sticker that the others ignore.

[Fledermaus]

Cites Salon and Media Matters. I quit reading right there.

[itsahoot]

I find myself listening to John Gibson on Fox News radio more now. He does a good program.

John had a good TV show on FOX until he said the wrong thing. I forget what he said but the PC crowd went bonkers I guess.

[itsahoot]

Have to laugh at Libs who call Rush a “draft-dodging oaf” yet line up to salivate over Bill Clinton.

Rush at his weight would never get past the physical but pilonidal cyst seems to be the stated reason for his 4F rating.

[itsahoot]

And he does so haltingly, often stumbling over the words.

Hannity could cover 25% more stuff if he didn't repeat himself so much.

[Organic Panic]

Just wait until the liberals make their own radio station by stealing money from charities. Then he’ll really be off the air...Oh wait. they tried that.

[itsahoot]

Burns and Allen. Jack Benny. Fibber McGee and Molly. All of them: two 60-second commercials in 30 minutes.

In those days commercials were limited by the FCC. Today a one hour TV show is more like 38 minutes with commercials and what happened previously removed.

[CatherineofAragon]

"Hannity could cover 25% more stuff if he didn't repeat himself so much."

Agreed...during the 2012 election, I got so sick of the repetitive catchphrases that I yelled at the radio.

[Doulos1]

Rush is right, Sandra Fluke is a slut!

[wintertime]

When is that going to happen. It is like Waiting for Godot.