[edit] Current top programs in the United States
Talkers Magazine compiles Arbitron's data, along with other sources, to estimate the minimum weekly audiences of various commercial long-form talk radio shows. The most recent results, from September, 9, 2009 are as follows:
The Rush Limbaugh Show - 20+ million.
The Sean Hannity Show - 16+ million.
The Savage Nation - 9+ million.
Glenn Beck Program - 9+ million.
The Dr. Laura Program - 9+ million
The Mark Levin Show - 6.25 million
The Laura Ingraham Show - 6.25 million
The Dave Ramsey Show - 6.25 million
Neal Boortz - 4.25+ million
These results only take into account commercial programs. Public, non-commercial, and non-English programming is not included in this list.
Other terrestrial programs, such as news and music, are not generally estimated in as much detail. Notable high-rated programs that fall outside the long-form talk category include the late commentator Paul Harvey (estimated listenership: 20 to 22 million) and lovesongs host Delilah Rene.
Sirius XM Radio was monitored by Arbitron from only 2007 to early 2008. The latest numbers available, from early 2008 (prior to when XM and Sirius merged), have The Howard Stern Show being the most listened-to show on either platform, with Stern's Howard 100 channel netting a "cume" of 1.2 million listeners. However, recent third party independent research studies indicate that over 60% of the 21 million current Sirius/XM subscribers listen to Stern at some point in the week. [9]
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