Rush Limbaugh's Ratings Have Fallen 30% In The Last Six Months

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Rush Limbaugh's Ratings Have Fallen 30% In The Last Six Months
Jen Ortiz | May 23, 2011, 5:35 PM | 20,113 | 28

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.

make the argument that his RW swill is more "good natured" and meant in "fun".

more and more Murcans have discovered he is a racist, homophobic, bloated, drugged-up, democrat-hating, evil piece of shit.

"evil pieces of shit" by comparing them to that motherfucker.

really. It has to stop somewhere.

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Being left broke and desperate by a bunch of con artists has a way of opening your eyes about things.

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Little hope that that large a population woke up so quickly.

The article in your OP was written in May.

didn't catch that

... while other more centrist listeners were tuning out Bah O'Heck and even tuned out in November.

...to see whether the trend continues...

Since tea partiers have gained the upper hand they can be held responsible if things go wrong. Right-wing whiners can no longer play the helpless victims of a vast liberal conspiracy ect.

The once hate-consumed radio callers are just waiting for tea party change to take effect -- it shouldn't take long.

his demographic is probably similar to o' lielly

And that there is a system now that measures when a radio is turned on, rather than just what people SAY they are listening to.

"No, really."

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who is raking in $40 million RepubliBucks a year to lie to you.

Regardless, no one is paid that kind of money to tell the truth. The truth is cheap - but no one in a position to allow it to be broadcast, will. Rush, an admitted water carrier for the Republican Party, is paid the big money to spin the truth and package his lies to a few million gullible dittoheads who will use it to vote against their best interests. That works out to $8-12 dollars a vote...very cost effective targeted messaging where a few million votes can sway an election and have a trillion dollar political economic impact.

Planting and nurturing the ideas of the 1% is a trillion dollar industry. The fact that they require so much money, planning, framing and almost all of the media to do it should tell you how wrong their message is.

Somehow, though, it works. Rush is paid hansomely to be the pied piper of stupid.

No wonder he's a druggie and sex tourist on his off time. It's got to be annoying to have to hang with the lowest common denominator and pretend to like them.

why does it take so long to bring these clowns to justice?

no longer have a radio after being laid off and foreclosed on?

without it getting old?

He's already way past his peak.

thing that is stopping him his listener can't afford radios any more XD

and with people not having jobs they have no commute and aren't listening to this stuff on the radio

His brand of propaganda has to have a "lessening": from time to time, in order to gin it up all over again with a white-hot fervor..

It;s also vacation time, when people may not be listening with such regularity..

His pay is not really all that dependent on ratings.. He's the mouthpiece/guru of rightwing-Nation.. His value transcends mundane things like radio ratings..,

only when "libruls" are in office is there leisure time to sit on your fat ass listening to a fat asshole.

so you don't have to. :-)

And every day, it is the same old shit. Obama....blah....blah..blah....and Obama said...blah...blah...blah...and Obama wants to tax the rich....blah...blah...blah...

Even for the Obama haters, it must get very old?

In the past couple years the Arbitron has switched from written diaries to a "people meter" which hasn't been kind to right wing blowhards like rushbo and his ilk.

First...a caveat here...Rushbo get NO national ratings. If you want to try to figure out how he's doing you have to go station by station and much of that information is by subscription only. Thus numbers about how many people listen to his show are and have been guestimates...many years old.

For the past year radio has seen a steep decline of listeners...especially AM radio as young people have gone to IPods and Online audio and older adults have also rejected the venom on AM and the repetitive music formats on FM. Most of the major companies are bankrupt, have been bankrupt or have avoided it for now but still carry a lot of debt. Not a pretty picture.

In the diary days a person could write that they listened to one show for 15 minutes and that was the only show that got credit. The meter knows when you pop the button to check another station and what surveys are showing is that people (naturally) tune out of commercial breaks and tend to jump to several stations in 15 minutes...not just one. Thus this is also being refelcted in the ratings.

Hate radio has proven to be cyclical...it generally is its strongest when there's a Democrat in office and there was a spike in the audience last year...but nowhere near what happened during the Clinton days of the 90s. It's a dying format on a dying medium...

Radio in general I mean, not just right wing blather.

There is so little variety, even NPR has moved to the center and is playing "both sides do it".

As you say, the music stations are mind numbingly repetitive with the only real exceptions being low powered stations at the bottom of the band.

At one time I was a fairly heavy consumer of radio, both AM talk and FM music, I haven't even owned a radio in close to five years now.

They can't cheat like they use to

I would think that ratings for political blather always go up approaching an election and then drop in the off years. Much as I'd like to think it's a permanent drop, I suspect that his ratings will be back up for the Hatefest-2012.

Both will always remain a #2 in my book.