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I have a theory about radio ratings of all shows. If gas is so expensive, people aren't driving around in their cars at midday listening to the radio like they used to. I bet most people listen to talk radio in their cars.
This story is all over the Internet and although I'm not a big Rush fan and an even lesser Hannity fan, the way the story was written sounded fishy. Why the mention of Don Imus in the same article? Rush and Hannity are syndicated....I don't think Imus is....if he is, not nearly as much so....so why the mention?
Well if you notice, the story is copied word for word where ever you find it on the Internet. It refers to Arbitron as the source for the ratings numbers but, then it mentions Crain's Business too....but, there's no link to Crain's. Well if you google Crain's you'll find that the real story (as others have mentioned I now see), is that they're only talking about WABC in New York.
This story is all over the place....Huffington's got it on a couple of pages....and then it looks like it was copied from there....but, that's just my guess. The point is, they very conveniently left out that they're only talking about one station. This is the way the media and politicians lie....they lie through omission.
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Top-rated Mr. Limbaugh has taken the biggest fall. He had a 3.0 share of listeners for his WABC-AM midday slot—a 33% slide from October and from last April. Mr. Hannity’s afternoon show was down 28% from its fall peak, as was fellow conservative Mark Levin’s evening program.
Numbers for the station’s more centrist personalities—Don Imus in the morning and John Batchelor at night—were both up from a year earlier.
He's #1 in the country because he has about 1 million stations.
But he's not #1 in all the major cities.
There's many cities where other people are beating him.
Does that surprise you? Common sense says MOST people who live in those big cities are liberal and vote democrat. Since they didn't support Air America they are left with The View and Oprah for their news.
I have a theory about radio ratings of all shows. If gas is so expensive, people aren't driving around in their cars at midday listening to the radio like they used to. I bet most people listen to talk radio in their cars.
I think you should get a prize . Many will car pool and would rather talk than listen.
Talk about lies and spin, that something that Rush and his minions know lots about. As far as his ratings, all that proves is that there are lots of very ignorant and stupid republicans out there.
Um....democrats and liberal listen to Rush..on a regular basis.
It just KILLS the Left that 25-30 million people each week listen to Rush.
Kinda puts a cramp in the leftist monopoly on what is "news", doesn't it?
He's #1 in the country because he has about 1 million stations.
But he's not #1 in all the major cities.
There's many cities where other people are beating him.
Where did he start? With ONE.
There is no denying the wildly successful enterprise that is RUSH.
He IS #1 in the country. NAME those that beat him.
The lefties also can't stand the fact that O'Reilly trounces everybody on MSNBC & CNN every night as well.
That story was indeed referring only to ratings for NYC radio stations, but the format continues to thrive nationwide, and there's no end in sight, especially with a Presidential election less than 18 months away.
Radio continues to reach over 90% of the nation's population every day according to Arbitron, and that number has barely moved for decades, since satellite radio is an also-ran insofar as weekly listeners are concerned.
The lefties cannot stand that Limbaugh, Hannity & Beck dominate the radio landscape to go along with their equally humungous stranglehold on cable news channels.
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