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Rush Limbaugh woes continue, as Foes celebrate ratings slide
National Ledger ^ | 06/18/2015

Posted on 06/19/2015 5:29:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Rush Limbaugh's woes in the ratings game of partisan talk radio are being highlighted by his left-wing enemies, Media Matters is gleefully reporting that the radio talk show host is on a downward slide.

Salon puts this headline on the piece, "Rush Limbaugh’s downward spiral continues: Another demotion, another step toward irrelevancy."

The piece highlights a recent move down the radio dial Limbaugh was forced to make after being dumped by his host station in Boston, Mass.

Limbaugh is still on the air in Boston but the conservative radio talk show has a new AM home in the city and it "currently boasts a 0.6 rating, trails four non-commercial stations in the market, and becomes yet another big-city, cellar-dwelling outpost that Limbaugh is forced to call home," Salon reports.

The have a lot more Rush bashing here.

Earlier, the New York Daily News revealed that sagging ratings might mean less money for Limbaugh in his next contract noting that "the ratings for syndicated conservative talk have flattened or dropped for several years, despite the gift of a Democratic President to hammer, and some think the format is wearing down."

Daryl Parks, a former talk host, media blogger and self-described Republican is quoted by NYDN and has the opinion that the schtick is wearing thin,

“Today’s talk radio is fast fading into the sunset because of a format stuck with 1990s rhetoric,” he says.

“A constant right-wing political drumbeat no longer resonates.”

The article notes that Rush "lost many advertisers after the Sandra Fluke birth control controversy in 2012, and that could affect what his syndicator, Premiere, will offer when his eight-year, $50 million a year deal expires in 2016."

Despite the ratings woes and aging demographics for the show he is still the "face of syndicated conservative talk radio," according to the NYDN.


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To: UB355

I could give a rat’s patootie about ratings snapshots.

AFAIK, the only ‘ratings snapshot’ is what I think about him and I’ve pretty much said my piece. I’d also hazard a guess there are others out there that have observed the same things I’ve mentioned.


41 posted on 06/19/2015 5:49:31 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer
Football is his passion. That used to be conservatism and it showed in his work. There was passion, anger, drive and determined resolve. That’s gone it seems to me.

Probably like me he can read the handwriting on the wall. The nation turned hard to the Left in 2008, and there is no indication that we are about to correct course. The 47% will very likely be 51% after they promise to forgive student loans. The half-life of Communism appears to be 70 years. Reagan Conservatism ain't coming back to this country in my lifetime.

He knows this. You can hear it in his voice every time he reads a mind-bending poll of Millenials.


42 posted on 06/19/2015 5:49:39 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: SeekAndFind

To paraphrase Mark Twain: ‘The death of talk radio is premature.’ Rush is not as good, but he - and talk radio - is still there for the common folks. The LSM would love their monopoly back, so they can choose who will B the next president.


43 posted on 06/19/2015 5:49:57 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: Graybeard58

Ironic that Libs used Air America as their name seeing that it’s the name of the CIA air support used in Laos during the Vietnam War. Great movie too BTW.


44 posted on 06/19/2015 5:49:58 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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To: Chainmail

ah....shut up. Limbaugh has done more to advance our movement than any other living American. He’s in his mid sixties now, and surely contemplating his exit as a daily host, but to do anything other than give him his due is absurdity. Pure and simple.


45 posted on 06/19/2015 5:50:30 AM PDT by ilgipper
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To: winner3000
we will be shocked at how much we will miss him once he’s gone.

I try to remember that when I listen to him pushing his Tea, and his books.
And if he didn't have a show anymore, I would miss it.

Of course everyone knows it's his show, but if no one listens, he might as well play with sock puppets in his kitchen.

I just don't want to listen to infomercials for the better part of three hours, and most of the time that's what I'm hearing.
46 posted on 06/19/2015 5:50:56 AM PDT by novemberslady
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To: SeekAndFind

Sadly I don’t listen to him any more. I want to. But his station is not convenient in L.A. any more.

I wish him nothing but success.

The only idea I have for him if he wants to climb back up the peak is to do something different this presidential election. Use what is left of his bully pulpit for good. He’s not some angel too high to be human. He’s the only radio guy who keeps his personal feelings aboutnthe candidates too close to his chest and doesn’t try to naturally influence his audience. Maybe he should. I know the thing is that he is afraid to be wrong. Well, you aren’t “wrong” if you have an educated preference, whether the candidate wins or loses. And it might sway enough people to give us a win. If his fave is Jeb I never said any of this. But I don’t think it would be.


47 posted on 06/19/2015 5:51:26 AM PDT by Yaelle ("You're gonna fly away, Glad you're going my way...")
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To: Buckeye McFrog
When he came on the air here in 1989, his only competitor in his time slot was Michael Jackson, who hosted a liberal talk show on KABC, a much weaker station than Rush's 50,000-watt KFI. Jackson soon disappeared from the airwaves.

Today, Rush has competition from Andrew Wilkow on Sirius satellite radio as well as others in his time slot.

48 posted on 06/19/2015 5:51:43 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Former Proud Canadian
"I don’t think Rush will starve."

Me neither. He won't be selling his Maybach either.

Idea for Rush's next book: "Making Ends Meet On Only $20 million A Year." Sniff!

I don't think Rush will completely retire although he might take longer and longer vacations. He does this because he loves doing it. I've been listening to him, on and off, almost since the beginning. There are ratings ups and downs -- his ratings should be expected to go up in an election year, down in the summer of a non-election year.

49 posted on 06/19/2015 5:52:20 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve." - Joseph de Maistre, 1753-1821)
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To: miss marmelstein
Rush's inimitable talent for mimicry.

I miss that too.

50 posted on 06/19/2015 5:52:33 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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To: Buckeye McFrog
I am still mad at him for ignoring Obama’s eligibility and the O’s many posted forgeries.
51 posted on 06/19/2015 5:52:44 AM PDT by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
I am still mad at him for ignoring Obama’s eligibility and the O’s many posted forgeries.
52 posted on 06/19/2015 5:52:46 AM PDT by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: Rapscallion

I think that’s it. There’s a loss of passion, I think. I listen to Mark Levin now more than Rush (not only is he on when I done at work), because he gets angry about what is happening to our country. Rush seems more resigned to things as they happen, less anger (actually none at all).

However, this seems cyclical. Libs love to herald Rush’s demise, and somehow he’ll bounce back.


53 posted on 06/19/2015 5:53:02 AM PDT by Thorliveshere (Minnesota Survivor)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Probably true. But I am not going to sit and listen to him everyday. He really doesn’t have anything to offer me anymore.


54 posted on 06/19/2015 5:53:20 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Will always listen to Rush, but his problem is started in elementary schools all over the country. From the minute a kid starts their education in a public school, right on up through graduation from college, they are browbeaten to death with liberal pro-abortion, anti-American, code-pink teachers and these kids naturally grow up to be liberals. Unless they have a strong conservative at home, someone that will keep them on the right track, they are lost forever. They are democrat voters for life because they have heard nothing but put down America their entire lives.


55 posted on 06/19/2015 5:53:42 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Probably like me he can read the handwriting on the wall.

I agree. Post 2012, he saw we were in a sea change in the wrong direction, and it's a totally different tone. He makes it clear he hasn't given up, but it became clear to Rush and many of us that the past 20 years of intensive brainwashing of the younger generations and the advent of 24/7 media has created a juggernaut for leftist thought. As he says daily now, what we were laughing at for the 20 years shouldn't have been laughed at. The absurd has become the mainstream.

56 posted on 06/19/2015 5:54:12 AM PDT by ilgipper
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To: SeekAndFind

I love Rush but will turn off for football,golf or the latest Apple product. As there is no alternative, he isn’t going anywhere.


57 posted on 06/19/2015 5:55:25 AM PDT by Neverforget01
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To: ilgipper

Rush on his worst day is still five times better than Sean Hannity on his best.


58 posted on 06/19/2015 5:55:38 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: SeekAndFind

Limbaugh is a shill for the status quo, so called conservative side of the political puppet show. He is no longer talking to a people that feel that one side has answers, the other, ruining what was once a great country. The country is in shambles, the leaders hold hands and ask us to jump off the cliff. It matters not who gets control of the handles of power. They are lawyers that argue their case in front of a corrupt judge vociferously, and shake hands and go out for toddies afterwards.


59 posted on 06/19/2015 5:55:43 AM PDT by Glad2bnuts
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To: Gaffer
I agree with you to an extent. I just turn the radio off when he gets going on the sports mode.

BUT...and here is where I think he has lost his edge...

Yesterday he was attempting to talk about Uber. Now I do give him credit he admits he knows very little about Uber and even insinuated someone of his celebrity would never be able to use Uber.

My first thought when he made that admission was, “and that indicates how you've lost touch with the common listener.” He has grown too old and too rich.

I also hold a certain amount of resentment when he tells listeners...now is not the time to act. He...his greatness...will tell us when. And the progressive agenda rolls ahead leaving us in the dust.

Another conversation he had this past week was about “objective truth” has died. That conversation was so old and shows he wasn't paying much attention to the core principles of the Tea Party or 912 movement.

Rush has lost his edge because his success has caused him to lose his touch of the common.

60 posted on 06/19/2015 5:56:19 AM PDT by EBH (And the angel poured out his cup...)
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