There are four stations on 98.7 in New York: WEPN, WGMN, WLZW, and WPAC. None are WOR! Indeed, none are even talk radio!
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Posted on 06/19/2015 5:29:39 AM PDT by 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.
>> Dennis Prager is the best talk show host nobody listens to. Primarily because he is on opposite Rush <<
Plus the facts that:
(1) Dennis is on many fewer stations, and
(2) too many of those stations have poor coverage areas, due to their relatively weak signals.
The **only** time I listen to Rush and the other yappers is if I am running errands in the car. They are untrustworthy. If they can ignore O’s eligibility and the Internet posted forgeries they are PHONY conservatives.
Hopefully, God will raise up leaders. He/She won't be one of these yappers.
Hate much?
Fairly sure he was dating Kathryn Rogers (the current Mrs. Limbaugh) at the time. So I'd say no.
Although the Viagra incident probably did have a negative effect on him. If nothing else, it could be seen as another warning shot by the left.
Nope. But resent plenty. In fact consider it to be duty to point out the facts. It is impossible to be a patriot if you let someone else's kids to the tough stuff.
Me too. The only cause those folks are interested in are fattening their wallets.
I agree completely with you that we need people of principle, not yappers.
Kuhner is one of the most ghastly sounding hosts I’ve ever heard, maybe not in content, but delivery.
I’m with you.
Frankly I think that the Sandra Fluke business was overblown—Sandra Fluke got what she had coming, as far as I’m concerned. The way I was raised, when you put yourself purposely in the public eye with something like that, you have to take whatever heat comes your way without complaining.
That being said, a lot of what Rush does has gotten old. He still hits it out of the park once in awhile, but the trick is knowing when the show will be good for all 3 hours and tuning in. Much of the time it’s like a soap opera—still hashing and rehashing the same stuff as months or years ago, with heavy emphasis on ANY mention of him in any segment of the media. He also has a habit of shooting his mouth off on subjects he clearly doesn’t know enough about. Some timely topics are conspicuous in their absence, for reasons known only to him. Thank goodness he doesn’t spend Mondays namedropping all the big shots he socialized with over the weekend any more. I think when I really lost considerable(not all, but considerable) respect for him was when he said that he makes up his mind about important questions based on who’s on what side. He was talking about climate change, but it could be anything. He said that because of who was on the other side was enough for him to decide what side he was on. Huh? Climate change aside, I don’t call that critical thinking. I was astonished that he would admit something like this.
Dennis is the Man. Too bad 1590 the Answer has the signal strength of a refrigerator bulb and I can’t get in Everett. But I listen whenever I’m in Seattle.
The only thing that bothered me about the viagra incident was that he said that he was getting a prescription in somebody else’s name to protect his privacy or some such. Must be nice. If doctors really do this, it seems that it would leave a lot of room for abuse. Maybe they won’t do it with narcotics and controlled substances.
Not wandering into birtherism is a point in Rush’s FAVOR, as far as I’m concerned.
And whatever my issues with Rush are, it’s only one-tenth of my issues with with Savage.
>> Dennis is the Man. Too bad 1590 the Answer has the signal strength of a refrigerator bulb and I can’t get in Everett. But I listen whenever I’m in Seattle. <<
Do what I did:
Get yourself an Internet radio, which means you’ll be able to listen 24/7 at home without firing up your computer.
There’s no question that the “birth certificate” is a crude forgery. Setting aside all the digital artifacts of forgery, there’s the fact that the typefaces of, IIRC, six different typewriters appear on it. (Maybe it’s eight typewriters.) This means that a nurse or clerk at the hospital would have had to type various words or individual letters, running from typewriter to typewriter—all of different makes. If you think the “birth certificate” is an image of an actual paper form, filled out in 1961, then you have to believe in the trotting nurse or clerk, dashing from typewriter to typewriter.
There are four stations on 98.7 in New York: WEPN, WGMN, WLZW, and WPAC. None are WOR! Indeed, none are even talk radio!
In New York City, Rush is on WOR 710 AM:
Compare WABC 770 AM:
t’s almost like they were coordinated.
Picking target. Freezing it. Personalizing it. Polarizing it.
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The left is systematic. Coordinated. Effective.
But what about tea? And kiddie books?
And calls about tea? And calls about kiddie books?
Agreed
OK, here’s what you have to believe in:
A pregnant teenage girl in the early 1960s who wants to fly to a foreign country(maybe not third world, but not exactly first world either)to have her first baby, away from her own mother and with strangers in a different culture.
The Honolulu Star Bulletin has a crystal ball and knows that this is one birth announcement that needs to be falsified.
In addition, the certificate of live birth which people were saying was not a legal document, just a souvenir, actually is a legal document. Mine is from Montana in 1956, but its probably similar. The thing with the footprints is actually a souvenir.
When I hear hoofbeats, I tend to think horses, not zebras, yes even in Kenya. This is my standard answer to all birthers, and all I will say on the subject.
there are a lot of us that feel the same way.
So what are the progressive radio show that have better ratings now?
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