Talkers Magazine has put out their "2008 Heavy Hundred" list rating radio talk show hosts across the country and one thing is obvious, conservatives still reign supreme in radio.Posted on 02/13/2008 10:42:06 AM PST by Mobile Vulgus
Talkers Magazine has put out their "2008 Heavy Hundred" list rating radio talk show hosts across the country and one thing is obvious, conservatives still reign supreme in radio.
The top ten includes one "progressive" (Ed Schultz) and one shock jock (Don Imus), but is otherwise dominated by conservatives. The rest of the list has a smattering of sports guys and a very few more left-talkers, but just as in the top ten, much of the other 90 slots are dominated by conservatives.
#1- Rush Limbaugh, #2- Sean Hannity,
#3- Michael Savage, #4- Dr. Laura Schlessinger,
#5- Glenn Beck, # 6- Laura Ingraham,
#7- Don Imus, #8- Ed Schultz,
#9- Mike Gallagher, #10- Neal Boortz
In an interview with CNSNews.com, Talkers Mag Editor Michael Harrison discussed the loss of traction seen by several well-known left-talkers.
Two of the most popular liberal hosts on the list lost ground in the ratings compared to last year. North Dakota-based Ed Schultz dropped from fifth to eighth. Air America Radio's Randi Rhodes plummeted from 13th to 40th place.
Amusingly, Harrison tried to soft peddle the loss of status that progressive talkers have seen over the last year.
Harrison explained that determining liberal hosts' positions on the list was more difficult than placing conservatives.
"It's a very subjective thing, determining the popularity of liberal hosts, because they have this sort of alternate universe they operate in," he said. "They have more importance because they're not a dime-a-dozen like so many conservatives out there."
I assume that was an effort by the Editor to forestall attacks for being "unfair" to left-talkers. Whatever the case, they fell in status and that cannot be papered over.
So, congratulations to the conservative talk radio stars that once again made the top 100 list and it shows that conservatism isn't a dead issue despite how badly Congress has muffed it for us all.
Sing it, brutha!
The McCain supporters are going to love this...
Geez, are they still calling Imus a shock jock?
Now with all the attention the media is giving talk radio their ratings and earnings will skyrocket. The Liberal media thinks they are hurting talk radio’s credibility with the multiple daily negative comments and are doing the reverse, making talk radio more popular and thus more influential and certainly more profitable.
But that makes sense, the MSM does exactly the wrong thing themselves whihc is why their ratings keep falling - they are in effect, always counter-predictors.
Anyone know what the salaries are for the top 6?
And please, let’s stop calling leftists “progressives.”
That’s like calling discrimination “affirmative action”
UMM, UMM, UMM, MUMBLE,MUMBLE,INCOHERENT IMUS.
GIVE ME BACK CURTIS & KUBY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can't count that high.
Actually, the word was in quotes because that is how the Talkers magazine was terming them.
Man oh man, all that schilling for Romney didn’t help Hugh Hewitt at all! Not even in the top ten! He gets the old bullet in foot award that Reagan handed out.
#1- Rush Limbaugh, #2- Sean Hannity,
#3- Michael Savage, #4- Dr. Laura Schlessinger,
#5- Glenn Beck, # 6- Laura Ingraham,
#7- Don Imus, #8- Ed Schultz,
#9- Mike Gallagher, #10- Neal Boortz
I know that Rush is “the man” but I really enjoy Glenn followed by Rush, Levin and a night guy, Rusty Humphries.
That means that the left will try to destroy them, beginning with #1.
They’re referring to how he gets his heart started every morning.
If the Democrats take over both congress and the white house they are going to try and implement the fairness doctrine. For information on this go here:
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/F/htmlF/fairnessdoct/fairnessdoct.htm
But, but, but, what about Al and Air America??? This has got to be rigged. Surely!
LOL
No problem. January 21, 2009, emergency session of congress, passes Fairness Doctrine and immediately signed by Commissar Hillary or Head Towel-head Osama Obama.
I’ve seen ed schultz on TV a couple of times, and I always wonder why anybody would listen to this inarticulate leftist thug. Hasn’t he assaulted people in bars a couple of times? A class act all the way.
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