Liberal talk radio hosts, including Air America Radio, trended ahead of Rush Limbaugh in key Florida demographics.
Liberal talk radio hosts, including the new liberal talk network, Air America Radio, trended ahead of Rush Limbaugh in key Florida demographics.…
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76 - Truth Teller
Rush Limbaugh Rules Los Angeles and Chicago
Wednesday July 20, 8:58 pm ET
- Numbers Don't Lie -
LOS ANGELES, July 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Rush Limbaugh, the first national radio host to interview Vice President Dick Cheney and former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani today about President George W. Bush's nominee to the Supreme Court, also was first today in the Arbitron Spring 2005 ratings survey for Los Angeles and Chicago. The Rush Limbaugh Show, heard Monday through Friday on KFI-AM in Los Angeles from 9 a.m. - noon scored, among Persons 12+, a 4.4 share with 100,100 listeners tuning in, on average, every quarter hour. Among Adults 25-54, he has a 2.5 share with 35,900 of them tuning in, on average, every quarter hour. Al Franken, who airs at the same time on KTLK-AM in Los Angeles, has a share of 1.2 with 28,400 listeners Persons 12+ tuning in, on average, every quarter hour. With Adults 25-54, he has a 0.8 share with a listening audience of 11,900, on average, every quarter hour. Mr. Limbaugh's audience of Persons 12+ is three and a half times the size of Mr. Franken's audience. Among Adults 25-54, Mr. Limbaugh more than triples Mr. Franken's audience.
In addition to Mr. Limbaugh and Mr. Franken, below are numbers for other talkers who don't run head to head with Mr. Limbaugh:
Host Share Avg. Quarter Rank (all AM/FM
(Persons 12+) Hour programming-
(Persons 12+) persons 12+)
Rush Limbaugh 4.4 100,100 5
Al Franken 1.2 28,400 27
Bill O'Reilly 2.3 54,900 14
Ed Shultz 0.9 20,500 34
Host Share Avg. Quarter Rank (all AM/FM
(Adults 25-54) Hour programming-
(Adults 25-54) adults 25-54)
Rush Limbaugh 2.5 35,900 14
Al Franken 0.8 11,900 31
Bill O'Reilly 0.9 13,100 29
Ed Shultz 0.6 9,000 42
In Chicago, The Rush Limbaugh Show is heard Monday through Friday on WLS-AM in Chicago from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and scored a 4.9 share with 78,200 listeners tuning in, on average, every quarter hour, for Persons 12+. Among Adults 25-54, he holds a 3.4 share with 31,700 listeners tuning in, on average, every quarter hour. Mr. Limbaugh has no competition in this market.
77 - Truth Teller
Rush Limbaugh Rules in Detroit and Philadelphia
Thursday July 21, 3:39 pm ET
- Numbers Don't Lie -
LOS ANGELES, July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- America's Anchorman, Rush Limbaugh, wins the ratings game -- again -- as he approaches his 18th anniversary this August in national syndication. According to the Arbitron Spring 2005 ratings survey for Detroit, The Rush Limbaugh Show, heard Monday through Friday on WJR-AM from noon - 3 p.m. is the #1 nationally syndicated talk radio show in the market. Mr. Limbaugh scored, among Persons 12+, an 8.1 share with an average quarter-hour audience of 70,000 listeners. Among Adults 25-54, he has a 5.8 share with an average quarter-hour audience of 29,600 listeners. Al Franken, who airs at the same time on WDTW-AM in Detroit, has a Persons 12+ share of 0.5 with an average quarter-hour audience of 4,600 listeners. With Adults 25-54, he has a 0.6 share with an average quarter-hour audience of 3,200 listeners. Mr. Limbaugh's audience of Persons 12+ is 15 times larger than Mr. Franken's audience.
In addition to Mr. Limbaugh and Mr. Franken, below are numbers for other talkers who don't run head to head with Mr. Limbaugh:
Host Share Avg. Quarter Hour Rank (all AM/FM
(Persons 12+) (Persons 12+) programming-persons 12+)
Rush Limbaugh 8.1 70,000 1
Al Franken 0.5 4,600 31
Bill O'Reilly 1.2 2,100 21
Ed Shultz 0.4 3,600 33
Rank (all AM/FM
Host Share Avg. Quarter Hour programming-adults
(Adults 25-54) (Adults 25-54) 25-54)
Rush Limbaugh 5.8 29,600 1
Al Franken 0.6 3,200 31
Bill O'Reilly 1.6 1,300 20
Ed Shultz 0.4 2,000 35
In Philadelphia, The Rush Limbaugh Show is heard Monday through Friday on WPHT-AM from noon - 3 p.m. and scored a Persons 12+ share of 4.9 with an average quarter-hour audience of 46,500 listeners. Among Adults 25-54, he holds a 3.0 share with an average quarter-hour audience of 15,700 listeners. Mr. Franken, who airs at the same time on WHAT-AM, scored among Persons 12+ a 0.2 share with an average quarter-hour audience of 2,200 listeners. Among Adults 25-54, his share is 0.4 with an average quarter-hour audience of 2,100 listeners. Mr. Limbaugh's audience is more than 20 times the size of Mr. Franken's audience.
In addition to Mr. Limbaugh and Mr. Franken, below are numbers for other talkers who don't run head to head with Mr. Limbaugh in Philadelphia:
Host Share Avg. Quarter Hour Rank (all AM/FM
(Persons 12+) (Persons 12+) programming-persons 12+)
Rush Limbaugh 4.9 46,500 3
Al Franken 0.2 2,200 40
Bill O'Reilly 5.7 13,600 6
Rank (all AM/FM
Host Share Avg. Quarter Hour programming-adults
(Adults 25-54) (Adults 25-54) 25-54)
Rush Limbaugh 3.0 15,700 14
Al Franken 0.4 2,100 31
Bill O'Reilly 2.6 2,800 16
78 - Dave Nalle
Actually, it looks like O'Reilly rules Philly.
Dave
79 - Quizmos
You might try a spell checker when you write. There are several misspellings though especially grating were your poor references to biblical quotes; Commandments begin with "Thou", and not "Though". FYI, for future writing, quotes can be Googled (to ensure accuracy). Otherwise, this was well written and included some interesting, if not enticing information.
80 - KYS
Since THOUGH is a word, spell-check will not catch that as an error. If Bill Gates can create a program that can anticipate what we MEAN to say, that will be a feat indeed.
81 - Gavin
As a European lefty from an apparently failing liberal country according to some posts above (strange our country couldn’t be doing better economically) oh and just so you know its Britain. I don’t really understand how you can compare Air America to Rush in the ratings. Air America has only been on the radio for just over a year and has grown to what? 67 stations in that time, its ratings are very impressive for such a small amount of time, you have to remember Rush has been on for what 15years or more. It will take a while for AAR to catch-up but from what I've heard it’s a very impressive format with generally, but not always unbiased news reports. I listened to Rush and I could not believe the utter rubbish he was spewing, I’m so glad that our laws in this country don’t allow for such biased filth to be spewed out to the population. If it’s not fair and balanced it’s not allowed, (and that means presenting both side equally) and for the most part AAR seams to achieve a fairly balanced view from a wide range of sources (you should never rely on one source). As an aside I’m not that fond of Franken the morning sedition and Rhandi Rhodes programs are much better. Oh and over here we fully blame your president for dragging us into a war that was for his and his friend’s financial gain i.e. Chaney and Halliburton spring to mind, (120000 Iraqi civilians, 1800 U.S. troops and around 200 UK troops dead and that since the so called end of the war!) and that has made us the target of terrorists. We never supported the war and we still don’t our government stupidly followed yours and I suggest you read the Downing Street memo (you may learn something shock horror) which Rush to my knowledge has never mentioned while AAR hasn’t shut up about!! As far as I can tell Rush is demagogue of the neo-fascist zombie brigade of the extreme far right who have vilely perverted Christianity in the same way that extremists such as Bin Laden have perverted Islam. I’m just glad that air America is going from strength to strength and while it may not be quite a match yet for Rush and his like yet, in 5years or so they may just.
82 - Donna Hankins
very good point from our british friend. As someone who has listened to Air America Radio since its launch...I can tell you about the difference I've seen/heard in the program's reach. My favorite hosts are Randi Rhodes and Al Franken. Randi does an amazing job of educating her listeners and tries to be patient with her neo-con callers as well. I have learned so much from her show....and why did I bother to listen? Because one of the first times I listened to her show I heard her say that she won't push so-called rumors on her show unless she has more than one reliable source. Limbaugh never has real sources...it's just crud that he spews out of his own evil brain. Anyway..her straightforward and intelligent (radio only smarter) approach has lots of saddened republicans tuning in to hear the truth. last year's gop callers were really hateful and not willing to listen...since traitorgate has begun lots of them are calling in and letting her know that they're ashamed about what is happening in the white house....BUT...they are grasping for something to say that makes them feel better so they tell her she shouldn't say that GW is an idiot because that's not nice. However...she easily gives them a litany of all the things that prove he's really NOT smart and the callers are speechless. anyway...checkout her show...i won't be surprised if she is the one that out scores limbaugh. i know she has a huge following in florida so those numbers are absolutely believable.
83 - donna
btw...i listen online from east tennessee where we don't have a radio station....yet....AAR has just added 2 louisiana stations though so maybe we'll get one...i know that i bump into plenty of people in tennessee who listen online and those numbers are hard to track to provide total listeners. i take the podcasts with me in the car so that i never miss a word of the Randi Rhodes show.
84 - Curtis
Much ado about nothing. The TV news on the major networks have an overwhelmingly liberal, demonstrable, quantifiable liberal bias. When this happens on talk radio, liberals try to invoke the Fairness Doctrine. Give the doctrine a decent burial, it no longer has any relevance. The tactic is to cut into conservative talk shows. If you do not agree with what the conservative talk show people say, THAT is what the on/off button is for. Also, there are alternative, reliable news sources. If there is any justice to the misapplication of the Fairness Doctrine, it is the refusal to date of Clinton, Obama and Edwards to "debate" on Fox. How hypocritical can they get? They want a level playing field, so long as it is tilted strongly to the left. Besides, they do not want to debate issues, they want a protected forum to obfuscate their shifting postions.
85 - REMF
What does the Fairness Doctrine have to do with Rush Limbaugh's dodging the draft during Vietnam; or his illegal purchasing of Black Market drugs like Oxycontin?
86 - Dave Nalle
Nothing at all, MCH. Which is why your last comment is completely off topic.
Dave
87 - Tip Top
Try searching "Limbaugh+gay" on Google. No wonder he's failed three times at marriage, and Mr. Family Values has no children. Does he ever go to church?
88 - sr
AS ALWAYS PLEASE DONT CONFUSE LIBS WITH FACTS. IT'S UNFAIR.