According to Talkers Magazine, these are the most listened to radio talk show hosts (with audience numbers in parentheses):
1. Rush Limbaugh (13.5 mil)
2. Sean Hannity (12.5 mil)
3. Michael Savage (8.0 mil)
3. Dr Laura Schlessinger (8.0 mil)
4. Glenn Beck (5.0 mil)
4. Laura Ingraham (5.0 mil)
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7. Ed Schultz (3.25 mil)
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11. Thom Hartmann (1.5 mil)
11. Stephanie Miller (1.5 mil)
11. Randi Rhodes (1.5 mil)
Notice a trend? Yes, conservative talkers dominate. Why is this? We're told liberal talk just doesn't draw the listeners in. And who could argue looking at the above numbers? But let's look deeper at the numbers. If we look at the audience numbers above, and consider the number of stations these talkers are on, we can come up with a listeners/per station average. Suddenly, we have a different look at the leaderboard:
1. Ed Schultz (32,500) 3.25 mil/100 stations
2. Sean Hannity (31,250) 12.5 mil/400 stations
3. Thom Hartmann (30,000) 1.5 mil/50 stations
3. Stephanie Miller (30,000) 1.5 mil/50 stations
3. Randi Rhodes (30,000) 1.5 mil/50 stations
4. Rush Limbaugh (22,500) 13.5 mil/600 stations
No, I'm not advocating a reinstatement of The Fairness Doctrine. However, short of not being able to sell advertising--what's the problem?
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
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"The Nookular Option" (0) 0 mil/0 stations
How's that for some stats, you jackasses!!
The reason, IMHO, that conservative talk radio outdoes liberal is because those dumbed-down dittoheads listening to it need daily reassurance that they are not the only jackasses in America.
Air America host Randi Rhodes wasn't mugged
BY DAVID HINCKLEY and TINA MOORE
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Tuesday, October 16th 2007, 12:28 PM
nydailynews.com
There's no truth to the rumors that Air America host Randi Rhodes was mugged near 39th St. and Park Ave. Sunday night. She is scheduled to return to the air on Thursday.
Air America radio host Randi Rhodes is temporarily off the air, but claims she was brutally attacked near her Manhattan apartment are bogus, her lawyer and a police source said today.
Fellow host Jon Elliott claimed on the liberal radio network that Rhodes had been mugged while walking her dog, Simon, on Sunday night. Elliot, who said Rhodes lost several teeth in the attack, waxed about a possible conspiracy.
"Is this an attempt by the right-wing, hate machine to silence one of our own?" he asked on the air, according to Talking Radio, a blog. "Are we threatening them? Are they afraid that we’re winning? Are they trying to silence intimidate us?"
A police source said Rhodes never filed a report and never claimed to be the victim of a mugging. Cops from Manhattan's 17th Precinct called her attorney, who told them Rhodes was not a victim of a crime, the source said.
Rhodes' lawyer told the Daily News she was injured in a fall while walking her dog. He said she's not sure what happened, and only knows that she fell down and is in a lot of pain. The lawyer said Rhodes expects to be back on the air Thursday. He stressed there is no indication she was targeted or that she was the victim of a "hate crime."
Rhodes started with the Air America when it launched in 2004. Her show airs from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays.
The network released a statement that said Rhodes "experienced an unfortunate incident."
"The reports of a presumed hate crime are unfounded," the statement read by a receptionist at the network's New York offices said. "Ms. Rhodes is looking forward to being back on the air on Thursday."
Still, the tale lived on in the blogosphere.
"What the %$#$ is WRONG with you people?? Are you that SICK in the head that just because you don’t agree with someone’s political views you believe that they deserve to be mugged? Are you on the right that DEMENTED??," a blogger called neddlenosehanty posted on watchingthewatchers.org.
Another blogger shot back, "I very seriously doubt if this unfortunate woman was mugged by a conservative. To jump to the conclusion that she was mugged by someone on the right is bigotry of another kind. Think not?"
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ME: Um, mud_rake, which side harbors the jackasses?? Hmmmm....
And who in the hell is Jon Elliot anyways? Well, he just pretty much showed me who we is by saying that.
Don't tell me that was some screwy joke or some crap - I know better. If nothing else, he's just a bad reporter, which is nothing new in America.....
Anonymous:
What's your point?
What lesson are we supposed to absorb here?
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