RUSH & HANNITY --- TANKING --- Limbaugh's Ratings Have Fallen 30% In The Last Six Months

[kpete]

The just-released Arbitron report reveals that a lot less people are listening to right-wing talk radio.

With a lull in ratings since November, Rush Limbaugh had a 3.0 share of listeners for his radio time slot, which is a 33% slide from October and from last April, reports Crain's Business.

Meanwhile, The Sean Hannity Show was reported to be down 28% from its peak numbers in the fall.
Interestingly, numbers for Don Imus' Imus in the Morning were said to be up year over year.

Premiere Radio Networks, which syndicates the shows, tells Crains they are not worried: Limbaugh and Hannity “continue to be No. 1 and No. 2."


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/rush-limbaugh-hannity-imus-radio-ratings-2011-5#ixzz1NJrckOlV

[leftyladyfrommo]

1. Gosh, How awful for Rush.

It certainly will be a much quieter world without him.

[Cal33]

5. Even some die-hard Repubs. must be getting tired of their BS.

[NOLALady]

2. Yep.

Number one aka P*ss

And Number two aka crap.

[southernyankeebelle]

3. Well I hope they keep lower themselves out of the market. We could use their hot air

light Tx.

[Drew Richards]

4. Not really true just accounting correction

Before it was a haphazard collection system where people could write in or just reply on surveys what they watch...now they are using the arbitron data correctly like others do...

So in essence EIB have been lying about their numbers until now.

[KharmaTrain]

6. More Deception Than Lying...

The people meters that have replaced recall diaries are having a major impact on AM hate talk. Its showing the actual time listened as opposed to a guestimate. But then Rushbo has always used guestimates rather than any accredited data to claim he had an audience far larger than actually listened. Unlike television, radio programs aren't rated nationally only locally and thus there never has been a true audit of the size of Rushbo's listenership...the syndicator would slap together numbers based on top performing affiliates and then assume that was how it was nationally. Amazing the fun you can have with numbers and the gullible people who will buy it.

The real problem is radio's self-destruction...losing its audience to internet, satellite and television. Hate radio will continue since there's no other alternative...old angry white guys are the only listeners left with AM radios.

[socialist_n_TN]

7. As I said in another thread, the numbers don't really matter

to the people these guys work for. Their MAIN job is to divide the proles. As long as they do that, it won't matter how much their ratings tank.

[Mojeoux]

8. R.I.P. Haters!

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