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.
Like anti-smoking people claiming George Burns “died of smoking”.
Michael Savage, the "conhservative" that gave the maximum allowable contribution Jerry Brown's campaign? Please, no!
This is not to bash the hosts, instead it is to point out that the left is being successful in targeting those who bought time on the shows. They created the belief that the resistance was there, though that narrative was false. That is how they are silencing the opposition.
Even if he ended up living his Gulfstream G650, his lifestyle would eclipse the standard of living the author of this article could ever dream of achieving.
I change stations immediaately when he gets into golf and football. Also, the program degraded so much when he stopped peppering the show with parodies and other humor. I agree with him; I appreciate what he’s done and does for America. He needs to get back to his roots.
I think we need better spokesmen/Ladies. Rush is a blowhard and difficult to listen to - particularly when he segues off on his football, ear operation, golf, or people gushing over him blather. He doesn’t advance the discussion anymore, he just seems to reminisce about himself.
We need a powerful, rational voice of conservatism - Michelle Malkin comes to mind.
We don’t need self-centered, draft-dodging oafs speaking to the really important issues.
Liberals can’t get lib talk radio to work. Here’s why. Talk radio requires live calls to it’s host and/or delayed by a few seconds. It’s easy to diffuse any lib argument. When conservative callers diffuse a lib talk host, that host loses credibility. The End.
That’s why liberal newspaper columnists continue to write their BS. They can hand pick what letters to post in the paper that responds to their blather.
Me neither. He won't be selling his Maybach either.
Football is his passion. That used to be conservatism and it showed in his work. There was passion, anger, drive and determined resolve. That’s gone it seems to me. Sure, he’ll get angry and still put up a token defense of conservatism and he’ll go off on the target du jour, but it’s perfunctory - rote and his heart just isn’t in it.
You give him one little break and he’ll be off talking about football or golf and a heartbeat. Most times when I hear him now he’s going over things I’ve already read about, thought about, and his opinion on it really isn’t anything new or innovative. Right now he’s a rich man with a good income and he’s skating.
What Salon doesn't mention, conveniently, was whether that station's 0.6 rating was recorded before or after Limbaugh's show moved to the station.
The sad journalistic road back from Snowy Moscow is littered turret to tread with the smoking, burnt out tank hulls of journalists pronouncing Rush`s career dead.
They do this every year, and every year it is simply more wishful thinking.
The solitairy grain of truth here is that radio is moving to the Internet, but then again rush too is moving more than ever to the Internet.
Even for idiots who bother themselves enough to to listen for a single hour It becomes clear that his recent smash hit books have garnereded him a huge number of fans in the under TWELVE YEARS OLD range.
As long as he keeps migrating to the Internet America will remain safe for another 25 years before Mark Steyn takes over.
What exactly are leftists celebrating? you count his years in Sacramento he’s been on the air for over 30 years. That’s pretty impressive, but nothing lasts forever. Jordan retired, Montana retired. People get old and like Glover said in LW4, “You can’t beat the clock Riggs”
Yeah! I listen in once in a while to talk radio, but I no longer trust these PHONIES who claim to love the Constitution soooo much. I now get my news and opinion straight from the Internet.
Yeah! I am still mad at Rush these other guys and gals.
If true tyranny comes to our nation, Rush and the others will sell their talents to the fascist oligarchy. They will spit shine the jack boots crushing our necks. ( They may even be doing that now!)
Ratings snapshots mean nothing. There are multiple delivery methods available these days.
Isn’t Boston a Liberal Firebase?
Yep! I agree.
Rush’s other problem is that he keeps turning off his longtime audience by spending hour upon hour talking about book promotion, deflated footballs, and tea. He needs to get back to what made him great. More humorous updates and Paul Shanklin parodies wouldn’t hurt.
Excellent analysis, and I agree with every word.
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