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When you also consider that news-talk has been the most listened to format in the country since 2008 after spending most of the previous two decades in second place (behind country), that is indeed an insignificant drop in the ratings, and especially since both formats are heard on more than 2,000 stations nationally, and both do very well in markets of many different sizes, and frequently with double-digit (10.0 and above) shares of the audience.
When you also consider that news-talk has been the most listened to format in the country since 2008 after spending most of the previous two decades in second place (behind country), that is indeed an insignificant drop in the ratings, and especially since both formats are heard on more than 2,000 stations nationally.
That doesn't mean that Mr. Limbaugh's audience is big. It just is bigger than other small audiences that commercial radio attract. A 30% drop is insignificant, because the number of members in his audience is insignificant.
The media audience is so fragmented that it is interesting that a 15 million person audience is seen as a large audience when you consider there are hundreds of million consumers of media out there.
They never say "recovering addict," do they?
They imply that he continues to take drugs and the poster
that I replied to suggested that he go home and overdose.
hes an addict cool.
The free market will decide what how much Oxycontin his liver can take. Take out the trash Saint Jude, thank you.
jojajn...as a former mod...I grant you 2000 rep points....ugh porky pig....lol... the pig looks clean and disease free- as opposed to pock marked Rushpig
kudos to you for idolizing a disgusting pig with no intellect. Women with an education dont listen to an aberration like that.
btw politics aside---limbaugh looks like something swept aside on the floor of a meat factory- he is rancid garbage. ugh....sickening.....
One could listen to Rush's show every day for years
and never encounter that level of hate speech.
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Women with an education dont listen to an aberration like that. 
cool. 
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