Is this true??? Air America doesn't look that good in NYC......

[a kennedy]

NYC, JAN-MAR, 2006
RADIO AUDIENCE AVG QTR HOUR
12+ LISTENERS

LIMBAUGH 141,700
HANNITY 118,200
GAMBLING 108,400
CURTIS/KUBY 101,500
IMUS 94,100
LEVIN 80,700
JOY BROWNE 69,500
O'REILLY 64,200
SAVAGE 62,900
BATCHELOR 43,300
INGRAHAM 37,500
FRANKEN 35,600
RANDI RHODES 27,900
LIONEL 27,100

Got this off the drudge site, sorry, but, can this be right?? :cry:

[Initech]

1. Dont believe anything you read on Sludge Report

I bet this is hardly correct, especially with Falafel O'Reilly claiming that Air America's numbers have tanked for like, the last YEAR.

[movonne]

9. And did he say where these figures come from...you know all repugs

lie...

[Initech]

25. Exactly.

[AlCzervik]

2. what is 12+, the demographic? 12+ to what?

[Eric J in MN]

10. To any age (nt)

nt

[AlCzervik]

11. ty, n/t

[devilgrrl]

3. Bollocks!

Matt Drudge! It's gotta be true! :sarcasm::eyes::sarcasm:

[otohara]

4. These Are 12+

numbers. The numbers that count are 25-54 - apparantly in NYC there's no accounting for taste.

[KittyWampus]

6. Man, twelve year olds prefer to listen to Rush? Their purchasing power

can't match 20-50 somethings.

[LA lady]

5. arbitron

I think it's from Arbitron's winter book from yesterday

[movonne]

7. That don't even make sense, N.Y. is liberal and I'm sure they would

want to hear liberal talk more than that lineup of rw in the list..and I have heard Randi say they have beat out limpballs..

[phylny]

12. The problem is that it's nearly impossible for many of the suburbs

to get any kind of good reception on WLIB. I struggle to hear it before 9 a.m. and after 4 p.m.

[Catrina]

14. I agree and on Wednesdays now WBLI seems to be airing some kind

of highschool sports event for 3 to four hours. I can't hear Randy Rhodes live anymore. She is on at 6 PM when the reception is horrendous for some reason.

Stephanie Miller is clear in the morning, she is followed by Al Franken, then Ed Schultz. That's the lineup with Randi following Ed but it's a repeat of her earlier broadcast. I don't know what's up with Wednesday and the kids sports events.

Lionel now replaces Mike Malloy and I never liked Lionel anyway so don't bother with it most of the time ~

I don't get why WBLI has such bad reception. Right now I'm listening to Randi, and about two other stations at the same time.

They changed the whole afternoon lineup when the replaced Randi with Ed ~ I remember that Randi was beating Rush in NY in her first year.

[tishaLA]

16. Really? They did that in NY too?

Here in LA, we have the same schedule--Steph, Franken, Schultz, Randi, MR, then Marc Maron followed by Mallow at midnight. I can't believe they moved Randi to 6 PM in NY--that sounds crazy to me. Here in LA, the delay puts her at 3-6, which is drive-time and I think she's doing well (although Steph has the highest ratings on the station and second highest in the market). 6-9 in NYC is just crazy.

I think that's why she (and Malloy) have been doing CNN et al. The station must need the exposure, especially since the ~1 million viewers she gets on Dobbs is significantly more than her radio show is getting in her home city.

[NYCGirl]

17. She's on at 3:00 in NYC, followed by Majority Report at 7:00.

Edited to add: We don't get Stephanie Miller on the lineup in NYC.

[tishaLA]

22. OK thanks

I didn't think Schultz or Steph was on in NYC. I have heard that Clear Channel is starting another "progressive" station in NYC that will have more local programming than AAR does and it will have Schultz, so that probably means it'll have Steph too. There's a thread in GD: P about it from media week...but the thread is about AAR losing WLIB.

[Writer]

8. Guys, this is nothing to be concerned about...

this reflects the same ratings for NATIONAL listenership for political talk radio. Rush, Hannity, etc. always have been at the top, although they've dipped a bit. In reality, Al Franken made his first appearance on this list in the Fall of 2005. I think that looking at this list alone is quite deceptive. AAR is growing, imho... as long as Clear Channel remains a reliable radio partner. And, believe it or not, they have so far. :shrug:

[gasperc]

18. AAR is fine, the audience is growing

we're growing, the conservatives are dropping

we are going from nothing to the millions that they built up over the years

[iamahaingttta]

13. It's because New Yorkers...

...aren't drivers, so we don't listen to AM radio in our cars. We take the subway and listen to our iPods. We listen to AAR online or Podcasts! Radio ratings won't reflect that...

[a kennedy]

15. Whew, thanks.

I listen to AAR most of the time on XM radio channel 167, although I do listen to 169 too, "The Power". It's an all African American station, and I do know, don't believe everything I read on drudge.

[Junkdrawer]

19. Didn't AAR just loose it's NYC station?

:shrug:

[Junkdrawer]

21. Link

http://billboardradiomonitor.com/radiomonitor/news/business/net_syn/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002424382

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

20. Well For One Thing, AM 770 Comes In Far Better Than 1190.

At least in Morris County N.J.

Anything west of Parsippany you can still get 770 clearly but 1190 cuts out almost completely. That very well may be part of it. Can't have listeners if they can't hear the show right?

[Kurovski]

23. Oh, this crap again!

Air America radio will be going strong long after Rush is reduced to giving back-alley handjobs from his cardboard box in exchange for the occasional Oxycontin.

[Rosco T.]

24. Wanna help me take care of some assholey freeps???

go over to www.xmfan.com and visit the 'Politics' and 'News/Talk' sections...

you'll be greeted with a message in one of them of "are you lib fags still here"

have fun with one stupid Freep called SamC .. he STILL insists that Soros is paying for ALL
the air time for AAR on ALL the stations including XM.