Rush Limbaugh’s Ratings Are In a State Of Complete Collapse

[whitehall]

Somehow the transition from Duh Bubble morphed that link into something about the Fairness Doctrine. But your original claim was "fevered efforts to shut down talk radio". Even dismissing "fevered", this fails to make that case.

Well I didn't think there was anything there. I tend to ask unanswerable questions. But only when others post undocumentable fantasy.

Perhaps there's a publisher out there looking for that next dime novel. Keep at it.

AM talk radio is subject to a freaking room full of federal, state and local regulations as well as FCC scrutiny. The 1st Amendment is still alive and well in the US when a host of a talk show is able to offer opinions critical of the administration and still comply with the law. The (fevered) ironically named "fairness doctrine" was intended to regulate speech and opinion which conform to newly established political ideology. It's a dangerous but typical attempt by the left to control political speech.

Wrong. As always.

Neither the FD nor any other FCC regulation EVER controlled what political opinions were prescribed or proscribed. Ever. You're invited to take my standing challenge -- show me any case where that ever happened. Ever.

You won't. As I just told Milli Vanilli -- I ask unanswerable questions. Know what you're talking about before you come in here and you won't find yourself painted into a corner.

Where did you lose the thread? Thanks to the 1st Amendment, political analysts on both sides of the isle are able to criticize or defend the administration. The ironically named "fairness doctrine" bill would regulate political speech at the whim of the political party in power and faceless bureaucrats. It's a dangerous concept but seems to be defended by low information lefties.

 

[HenryBHough]

The Fairness Doctrine did not, of itself, even try to control political opinion. It was, however, abused to require presentation of minute-for-minute "equal time" for all opposing views.

What commercial station devoting one hour to commercially successful programming from a popular point of view donate an hour to an opposing point of view that would attract no sponsorship and kill off the audience? In fact, no station ever was "punished" but many were forced to jump through expensive legal hoops to keep from being punished. If anyone wishes to explore this further Google "Red Lion fairness doctrine".

Please do that before you make up your mind - see the long list of results and pick any three to read thoroughly. Try to pick at random because every one of the hundreds of possible results has an agenda.

Here's just one for the truly lazy:

A Brief History Of the Fairness Doctrine - TIME

But I digress.....

Now we all know (well, all liberals have been instructed) that commercial radio stations are owned by evil capitalists who must be deprived of all use of the airwaves! Only government should be allowed to communicate freely via, what, The Ministry of Truth?

Beware the views of hobbyists whose only exposure to broadcast was carrying the coffee for the left-wingers at a far-left owned tea-kettle power FM.

 

[whitehall]

The Fairness Doctrine did not, of itself, even try to control political opinion. It was, however, abused to require presentation of minute-for-minute "equal time" for all opposing views.

What commercial station devoting one hour to commercially successful programming from a popular point of view donate an hour to an opposing point of view that would attract no sponsorship and kill off the audience? In fact, no station ever was "punished" but many were forced to jump through expensive legal hoops to keep from being punished. If anyone wishes to explore this further Google "Red Lion fairness doctrine".

Please do that before you make up your mind - see the long list of results and pick any three to read thoroughly. Try to pick at random because every one of the hundreds of possible results has an agenda.

Here's just one for the truly lazy:

A Brief History Of the Fairness Doctrine - TIME

But I digress.....

Now we all know (well, all liberals have been instructed) that commercial radio stations are owned by evil capitalists who must be deprived of all use of the airwaves! Only government should be allowed to communicate freely via, what, The Ministry of Truth?

Beware the views of hobbyists whose only exposure to broadcast was carrying the coffee for the left-wingers at a far-left owned tea-kettle power FM.

Has anybody ever advertised on the radio? Two minutes is expensive. What is an hour of "donated time" worth to a network? What federal agency or faceless bureaucrat would be in charge of determining the "fairness" of free speech? It's a crazy Nazi concept akin to book burning and no surprise that it is promoted by elements in the democrat party.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Rush Limbaugh’s Ratings Are In a State Of Complete Collapse

Stewart hashtags Rush

 

[HenryBHough]

Has anybody ever advertised on the radio? Two minutes is expensive. What is an hour of "donated time" worth to a network? What federal agency or faceless bureaucrat would be in charge of determining the "fairness" of free speech? It's a crazy Nazi concept akin to book burning and no surprise that it is promoted by elements in the democrat party.

Network time IS expensive. Even "make believe" networks like Air America was before it went bust and a lot of sincerely liberal old people lost their life savings. Even "make believe" networks like EIB or "The Blaze". ABC, CBS and NBC used to be pretty powerful radio networks but now they're reduced to short newscasts and a few commentary programs.

Local radio, except in major markets, can be bought cheap. In even medium markets "Dollar a Hollar" minute-long spots were not uncommon. I haven't worked with commercial radio in about 20 years (most recently in TV and broadcast products manufacturing) so I imagine it might be up to five bucks for a minute but not much more. For that reason a lot of pure crap is being "bird (satellite) fed" so local stations can get by with a staff of about three instead of the much larger numbers that used to be employed. Hell, even markets the size of Providence, R.I. have stations with zero news staff. Surprisingly some of those are good sized stations but the "news staff" is a corporate news office in a distant city. Even on the TV side, group ownerships are clustering TV master control operations for a half dozen or more stations at a single location, sometimes hundreds of miles away from the "local" transmitter.

Make no mistake - the business is cutting its own throat with this centralization. The suppression of free speech is going to arrive in the form of "localism" edicts which will shut down the major "talk" pseudo-networks and have acne adolescents working for minimum wage playing some form of recordings in between local gossip tid bits. Even THEY will be "voice tracked" - so don't call the station to ask to run a lost dog announcement 'cause all you'll get is voicemail. But, hell, that's mostly what you'll get already.

 

[Pogo]

AM talk radio is subject to a freaking room full of federal, state and local regulations as well as FCC scrutiny. The 1st Amendment is still alive and well in the US when a host of a talk show is able to offer opinions critical of the administration and still comply with the law. The (fevered) ironically named "fairness doctrine" was intended to regulate speech and opinion which conform to newly established political ideology. It's a dangerous but typical attempt by the left to control political speech.

Wrong. As always.

Neither the FD nor any other FCC regulation EVER controlled what political opinions were prescribed or proscribed. Ever. You're invited to take my standing challenge -- show me any case where that ever happened. Ever.

You won't. As I just told Milli Vanilli -- I ask unanswerable questions. Know what you're talking about before you come in here and you won't find yourself painted into a corner.

Where did you lose the thread? Thanks to the 1st Amendment, political analysts on both sides of the isle are able to criticize or defend the administration. The ironically named "fairness doctrine" bill would regulate political speech at the whim of the political party in power and faceless bureaucrats. It's a dangerous concept but seems to be defended by low information lefties.

Bullshit.

There's no instrument in the FD to do any such thing in any way. If there were, you could demonstrate. You can't. You lose.

 

[Jroc]

Bad ratings news is rolling in for Rush Limbaugh as his show has fallen to 22nd in New York and 37th in Los Angeles. Limbaugh’s ratings are in a state of major decline.

Rush Limbaugh’s claim to radio fame has always been that he is a right wing talker who brings big ratings to major markets in blue states, but this isn’t the case anymore.

As Jerry Del Colliano, publisher of the radio-centric Inside Music Media put it, “We’re watching the end of right-wing conservative talk radio. The genre is dying among ratings and dying among advertisers … Rush is at the end of his career. His constituency is all wearing Depends. And he’s getting himself into trouble he doesn’t need. So can you put Humpty Dumpty back together again? They have been able to improve their advertising picture, but they have not been able to come back.”

The answer for why Limbaugh’s show is dying can be found in demographics. Rush’s average listener is 66 years old. Younger people aren’t turning on their radios to listen to Hannity, Beck, Limbaugh, and Savage. Their audience mirrors that of the Republican Party. It’s white, conservative, and male.

The High Cost of Rush: Talker Bleeds Millions From His Carriers As Toxic Talk Slumps, Cumulus Seems Set To Part Ways With Rush Limbaugh - The Daily Beast

What kind of idiot posts an link to a piece that's over a year old? Sandra Fluke? is she someone important?

 

[blastoff]

Bad ratings news is rolling in for Rush Limbaugh as his show has fallen to 22nd in New York and 37th in Los Angeles. Limbaugh’s ratings are in a state of major decline.

Rush Limbaugh’s claim to radio fame has always been that he is a right wing talker who brings big ratings to major markets in blue states, but this isn’t the case anymore.

As Jerry Del Colliano, publisher of the radio-centric Inside Music Media put it, “We’re watching the end of right-wing conservative talk radio. The genre is dying among ratings and dying among advertisers … Rush is at the end of his career. His constituency is all wearing Depends. And he’s getting himself into trouble he doesn’t need. So can you put Humpty Dumpty back together again? They have been able to improve their advertising picture, but they have not been able to come back.”

The answer for why Limbaugh’s show is dying can be found in demographics. Rush’s average listener is 66 years old. Younger people aren’t turning on their radios to listen to Hannity, Beck, Limbaugh, and Savage. Their audience mirrors that of the Republican Party. It’s white, conservative, and male.

The High Cost of Rush: Talker Bleeds Millions From His Carriers As Toxic Talk Slumps, Cumulus Seems Set To Part Ways With Rush Limbaugh - The Daily Beast

What kind of idiot posts an link to a piece that's over a year old? Sandra Fluke? is she someone important?

That's easy. A lefty idiot! And you can't miss 'em. They're everywhere.

 

[elektra]

So many lies about Rush Limbaugh and simple ordinary people.

Has anyone pointed out that Rush Limbaugh has to best sellers and the New York Times list as well as Rush just received an award for Children's book of the year.

Rush is even more popular now, then yesterday.

 

[HenryBHough]

So many lies about Rush Limbaugh and simple ordinary people.

Has anyone pointed out that Rush Limbaugh has to best sellers and the New York Times list as well as Rush just received an award for Children's book of the year.

Rush is even more popular now, then yesterday.

Oh they know....

And they're blind with rage because of it.

Cute, aren't they!

 

[Pogo]

So many lies about Rush Limbaugh and simple ordinary people.

Has anyone pointed out that Rush Limbaugh has to best sellers and the New York Times list as well as Rush just received an award for Children's book of the year.

Yeah, there's a thread for that. See here.

Where are these "lies" then? Got a link?

Rush is even more popular now, then yesterday.

You're basically paraphrasing H.L. Mencken here:
"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public".

Limblob is definitely not going broke, we all agree there.

 

[Synthaholic]

So many lies about Rush Limbaugh and simple ordinary people.

Has anyone pointed out that Rush Limbaugh has to best sellers and the New York Times list as well as Rush just received an award for Children's book of the year.

Rush is even more popular now, then yesterday.

Rush Limbaugh "now ranks 39th in the Los Angeles market, attracting an anemic .5 ratings share. (A ratings share represents the percent of those listening to radio in the market who are tuned into a particular station.)

The tumble to 39th place represents yet another downward lurch -- in March the station logged in at 37th place. Note that there are a total of 45 rated stations in the Los Angeles market, which means Limbaugh's KEIB station (the call letters mirror Limbaugh's motto, "Excellence in Broadcasting") has nearly reached the ratings basement.


LINK

 

[bedowin62]

rush has a much higher raing than syntaholic; who is just another left-wing clown spewing nonsense

 

[bedowin62]

oh god; rush isnt connecting with people in LA!!!???

oh the horrors!!

lmao

libs are losers who comically try to dictate the parameters to make their weak arguments seem relevant

 

[Harry Dresden]

Bad ratings news is rolling in for Rush Limbaugh as his show has fallen to 22nd in New York and 37th in Los Angeles. Limbaugh’s ratings are in a state of major decline.

Rush Limbaugh’s claim to radio fame has always been that he is a right wing talker who brings big ratings to major markets in blue states, but this isn’t the case anymore.

As Jerry Del Colliano, publisher of the radio-centric Inside Music Media put it, “We’re watching the end of right-wing conservative talk radio. The genre is dying among ratings and dying among advertisers … Rush is at the end of his career. His constituency is all wearing Depends. And he’s getting himself into trouble he doesn’t need. So can you put Humpty Dumpty back together again? They have been able to improve their advertising picture, but they have not been able to come back.”

The answer for why Limbaugh’s show is dying can be found in demographics. Rush’s average listener is 66 years old. Younger people aren’t turning on their radios to listen to Hannity, Beck, Limbaugh, and Savage. Their audience mirrors that of the Republican Party. It’s white, conservative, and male.

Howard Stern always kicked his ass anyway.....