DaddySatyr
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Maher on the difference between him and Rush quote:
Maher, during his monologue “I sometimes called Sarah Palin a bad name.” Chuckling to himself, he noted, “I don’t have sponsors, I’m on HBO.” I posted that for a reason... Maher's "ratings" are irrelevant because he works on the "flagship" station of cable TV. I did a fairly exhaustive search to find his ratings and was unsuccessful because, frankly, they don't matter. While HBO takes some notice, certainly, there are no third-parties that, quite frankly, drive commercial television and radio. It's as fair, using Rush's ego-driven quotes as a basis for ratings as me, using Maher's. However, I'm a decent guy so: Arbitron does not do national ratings. The closest anyone has ever come to doing so is one publication, "Talkers' Magazine". It's a very difficult thing to do since one would have to analyze Arbitron ratings from over 4,000 (talk Radio)stations. However, Talkers' Magazine does and they estimate that Rush has 15 million listeners. Media Matters, that bastion of right-wing support says: quote:
ORIGINAL: Media Matters spokesperson "...common industry shorthand to determine the actual size of a radio audience at any given moment is to cut the cume figure down by a factor of 10, which would mean Limbaugh's 20 million becomes 2 million. Or, if you take the more modest cume number of 14 million, which some inside the industry have used to judge the talker's audience, Limbaugh's rating becomes 1.4 million, which is roughly the same size audience that Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann get each night on cable TV. Read more: Numbers may be smaller than you think So, the madcow and the ombudsman do roughly the same as Limbaugh. Now, radio is different than TV in that radio listenership primarily consists of people in a car who are going somewhere and going to be getting out of the car. If they're in their car and headed for home, chances are they'll be turning on the TV, when they get there. Now, we have a horse race. TV viewership is vastly different in that, especially in the evenings (prime time), people are "settled in". The dinner dishes are finished, they're in comfortable clothes and not planning on going anywhere. One could make the statement that Maher's viewers are paying more attention to him than Rush's listeners are paying attention to Limbaugh. When you factor in that "prime time" in radio listenership happens to be drive-time in most places, you'll see how the numbers can be skewed. Rush rarely appears in drive-time in any market as his time slot is noon-three Eastern time. That makes even live broadcasts on the West coast start right around the time rush hour is over (9 AM) Either way to deny that either of them has any influence over their listeners would be silly. Peace and comfort, Michael
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