Posted on 10/11/2007 7:41:22 AM PDT by rface
Rush Limbaugh remains the most listened-to talk show host in America, according to a semi-annual estimate in the trade magazine Talkers, with at least 13.5 million people tuning him in at some point during the average week.
Sean Hannity is a close second with at least 12.5 million. Then there's a drop to Michael Savage and Dr. Laura Schlessinger, who Talkers says each have at least 8 million listeners a week.
Limbaugh and Hannity are heard locally on WABC (770 AM), Savage on WOR (710 AM) and Schlessinger on WWDJ (970 AM).
Talkers says its figures are based on station reports, Arbitron "and other sources." and are not precise ratings data.
The top 12 for spring 2007:
1. Limbaugh, at least 13.5 million
2. Hannity, 12.5 million
3. Savage & Schlessinger, 8 million
4. Glenn Beck, Laura Ingraham, 5 million
5. Neal Boortz, Mark Levin, Dave Ramsey, 4 million
6. Mike Gallagher, Michael Medved, 3.75 million
7. Jim Bohannon, Clark Howard, Bill O'Reilly, Ed Schultz, Doug Stephan, 3.25 million
8. Bill Bennett, Jerry Doyle, George Noory, 3 million
9. Rusty Humphries, Kim Komando, Lars Larsen, Jim Rome, 2.25 million
10. Bob Brinker, Dr. Joy Browne, Tom Leykis, Mancow, 1.75 million
11. Alan Colmes, Thom Hartmann, Hugh Hewitt, Lionel, G. Gordon Liddy, Stephanie Miller, Randi Rhodes, 1.5 million
12. Dr. Dean Edell, Bill Handel, Opie & Anthony, Michael Reagan, 1 million.
Where’s Air America?
Is FreeRepublic slow for YOU too?
It’s dragging a bit this morning and I see that the “views” feature is missing, again...
Crush Rush ??? BWA HA HA HA HA
Is that combined?????
ML/NJ
For those who missed it this week, Rush pinned Waxy in two out of three falls.
Do you mean to tell me that only 13.5 million people listen to Rush Limbaugh??? This is dangerously low!
I thought so too, but it might be because the listener base has a broader range to choose from than say, five to ten years ago.
About a year ago, I heard Rush say that he had 21 million listeners. Why would the number decrease by about a third?
‘I thought the number was 20 million a week.’
Keep in mind this covers the summer months, when listeners have other things to do. Its telling they add ‘at least’.
I like Glenn Beck, but I really do wish that he would stop constantly referring to himself as “the third most listened to show in America”, because he isn’t.
Personally I don’t know how they could even get a number.....
These figures probably only account for people listening via radio and not those downloading podcasts or streaming via direct subscription.
Those numbers come from “Talkers Magazine”, a publication mostly ignored by the money people in radio, but not by the MSM. Go here for the full story;
DREAM ON, ED
Progressives Use Faulty List, Rush Wrongly Downgraded
http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/2007/10/talkers-magazine-top-talk-radio.html
The number is more like 27 million listeners.
Ellen RATner works for talkers doesn’t she? That’s all I need to know.
Thanks.
In Davey Jones’ Locker arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
“with at least 13.5 million people tuning him in at some point during the average week.”
This new formula was concocted a few years ago. The 13.5 million is at any given time. People tune it at various times. I always listened via radio but now it’s only Internet. I probably don’t count as a listener anymore.
I bring my radio into the “work room”....and I get (make) four others to listen to the broadcast.....so one radio - 4 listeners. ..... every day ......
B'OR is now on head-to-head with Rush, instead of just against the last hour. Dennis Miller is now on against Rush-3 and Hannity-1. Steve Malzberg is in there between Miller and Weiner.
On the WABC side of things, Bob Grant is back in the evenings and John Batchelor is on Sundays instead of Whitman and/or Drudge.
I listen to him, Hannity, Medved and others every day over the internet. Would internet listeners included in those numbers?
Imus is coming back and WABC will get him.
That means that they'll either cancel their successful pairing of Curtis Sliwa and Ron Kuby (say what you will but they've lasted together for something like 6-8 years) or they'll put him on FM in place of Scott & Todd (who have been there for over 15 years).
Whichever it is, I won't be listening.
(Can you imagine Imus as a lead-in to Rush?? Okay, there would be an hour or two in between, but still!)
Not all Rush listeners are over the airwaves any longer. I expect the number differences are because Rush includes internet listeners and dittocam watchers. The other numbers include only those that mention Rush when polled about their radio listening habits.
YES.
I thought it was only me.
quite often I am forced to listen on the air.
I can even listen on the air over my phone! (internet not radio)
Dingy Harry did the counting...
20 Million is a cumulative number for the week. 13.5 million for any given time.
I wish we still had Joy Browne. Dave Ramsey is really good.
Reid made some claim in his rant against Rush about “steadily dwindling listenership”. I think Rush addressed this last week.
Some of the talk hosts listed—near the bottom—are
“progressive talkers” like Ed Schultz (syndicated by
Jones Radio Networks) and Randi Rhodes & Thom Hartmann
(Air America). Some have trusted the “numbers” given
by TALKERS over the years though some wonder if Rush
actually has more listeners than estimated, and the
prog. talkers actually may have less.
The likes of Rush, Hannity, Beck, etc. have as much as
600 stations, most fairly powerful. Prog. talk is relegated
to maybe 60-70 or so, fairly weak stations. In the past
year or so maybe one “prog. talk” station has been added
(Atlantic City, NJ) with many more being dropped (4
small stations in Hawaii; Memphis, etc., and KLSD
in San Diego is long rumored to be next.
It could be that conservative talkers bring in listeners
from across the political spectrum (some people can’t
stand Rush or Hannity yet still listen) while libtalkers
focus only on the Left...those on the left who would
prefer a commercial talk station to what’s on NPR (and
can’t bring themselves to tune to Rush, etc.)
One of prog. talk’s biggest failures is Boston which
lost Air America last December. The state is rife with
Dems in office, liberals and moonbats, etc. Yet the
prog. talk station(s) failed.
The Great One!
Yes he did... Limbaugh is feared more by the socialists than ANY Republican in office.
If Imus were to replace Scott & Todd, that would give me absolutely no reason to listen to WPLJ. I wouldn’t want him to replace Curtis & Kuby either, but there are other shows on WABC that are good. Like LEVIN!
See #11 —— Randi Rhodes among others.
When Glenn Beck met WITH a GROUP of radio hosts with President Bush.....he referred to the meeting, as if it was JUST BETWEEN HIM and the President......made me a little skeptical of him.
Well...a little more like it but still unbelievably low...!
By the way, who is Ed Schultz?
(Ever heard of anybody who doesn't know who Rush Limbaugh is???)
2. Hannity, 12.5 million
3. Savage & Schlessinger, 8 million
4. Glenn Beck, Laura Ingraham, 5 million
All together :
Alan Colmes, Thom Hartmann, Hugh Hewitt, Lionel, G. Gordon Liddy, Stephanie Miller, Randi Rhodes, 1.5 million
Any wonder why the socialists are adamant about getting Rush et al off the air?
We need to be sure we keep the socialists out of the WH - or Rush is liable to be a victim of Arkanicide -
IT takes a lot of fortitude and downright super patriotism to do battle as Rush does, day after day, with the minions of evil...
My new fave is Dennis Miller. I wish he was a Christian (I wish the same for dear Rush), and I wish he was pro-life. But he is respectful of such positions and is very funny and creative.
Has anyone done a definitive study on why listeners to conservative versus liberal shows is so lopsided?
Could it be that, without all the voter fraud, this country just may not be as evenly divided as we are led to believe??? (The figures on how many of us believe in God - 86% - should be a clue as well)
? Same as the inflated figures for the percentage of homosexuals?
Time for a candidate that will not worry about the gay or other lib issue voters - for every one of them they would alienate, they would gain 2+ on the other side.
Hence the libs’ push for the fairness doctrine.
very well could be an indicator of voter fraud
An even bigger indicator of voter fraud is how hard the Dems fight any sort of voter ID requirement.
Rusty Humphries...much better looking than the a-ver-age host, yeh! Rusty Humphries...listening to him may make you a millionaire, yeh!
You gotta give it to him. He’s got a great sense of humor.
I don't know if anyone has done this definitive study, but in my opinion, the most obvious answer is because television and the newspapers are so heavily dominated by the left, radio is the only medium where our opinions ever really get a fair airing. Limbaugh came in at a time when the vacuum was so large, it was begging to be filled by someone, and boy did he big time.
I remember saying at the time Air America was starting that it was doomed to fail, because the market for liberal opinion was already pretty well saturated in the media. Even on the radio, NPR had already been around quite a while to appeal to the mainstream left. Air America is designed to appeal to the ulra far-left MoveOn.org George Soros crowd who doesn't feel that NPR is liberal enough. And that crowd is a pretty small slice of America, and virtually nonexistent outside of San Francisco and the Boston to DC Beltway corridor.
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