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- novenator, on 03/15/2009, -42/+79Good, they have used AM as a bastion of propaganda and brain washing for a long time.
- sjl127, on 03/15/2009, -32/+62This story doesn't make any sense. Last I heard, conservative radio advertising has a great response ratio... If in fact that these stations are scaling back, it's safe to assume that it's all radio, not just AM... So the story's misleading. Listen to FM lately? Awful.
- shupy, on 03/15/2009, -36/+65I think people are really really tired of conservative talk radio.
Now that their boy Bush is out of power, it has to be getting harder to be a right wing cheerleader. It takes a lot of self deception to convince yourself that we are better off after the 8 years of Bush. Kind of puts a damper on all those right wing talking points.
Whose life is really better than it was before Bush? - blackopsfreak06, on 03/16/2009, -2/+29this is for CALIFORNIA. Think about the demographics.
- ddoorn, on 03/16/2009, -27/+48Re: "I think people are really really tired of conservative talk radio." Gawd let's hope so...! I just can't imagine anyone with a BRAIN and even a SMIDGEN of common sense buying into that horsepucky!
Re: "Whose life is really better than it was before Bush?" I wouldn't know...talk to those whose income is stratospherically up into nosebleed territory! - blackopsfreak06, on 03/16/2009, -11/+31This is for CALIFORNIA. Not AMERICA.
- poopsybythebay, on 03/15/2009, -32/+51I know isn't it funny.
- enantiodromia, on 03/16/2009, -2/+18i'm glad you aren't counting NPR as Liberal, because listenership is up there
- DangerCollie, on 03/16/2009, -10/+25"Whose life is really better than it was before Bush?"
Several people at Haliburton, Wall St. execs...although they've taken a turn for the worse lately. Anyone making more than $500K a year, corporate farms, Haley Barbour, big pharma, health insurance company execs, Rupert Murdoch, Fred Koch.
See there are a lot of people benefiting at your expense. - mu0p, on 03/16/2009, -13/+28Posting statistics from the Rush Limbaugh site to support an argument in favor of Rush Limbaugh is such a perfect snapshot of conservative circular logic that i'm going to laugh/cry myself to sleep tonight.
- sugarazor, on 03/16/2009, -1/+16Well let's be honest, radio in general is on its way out. Stations are cutting staffs across the board, the radio station I used to work at is down to two employees. TWO! Voice tracking has replaced the live airshift, large corporate stations like KISS-FM and Mix play the exact same thing in all markets, and advertisers have caught onto the fact that no one actually listens to commercials on the radio. Radio (as we know it) is dead.
- bnasley, on 03/16/2009, -2/+16They still make AM radio?
- thebigredcat, on 03/16/2009, -8/+22Don't worry. They will always have FOXnews.
- novenator, on 03/16/2009, -7/+20wminz, not too much unlike talk radio?
- Karmashock, on 03/16/2009, -5/+18The irony of a dying newspaper saying the local radio stations are pulling in less money is a little rich. Even if they are pulling in less their overhead is less and their exposure is better then the newspapers. In the end they remain a better vehicle for ads... which is what fuels all these companies.
don't cry for talk radio... it's fine. Especially in LA where everyone is stuck in traffic for HOURS each day. That's were all of talk radio's power comes from... people stuck in traffic. If the liberals really want to kill talk radio... FIX THE F"ING ROADS!!! - Echota, on 03/16/2009, -14/+26I hope the wane broadsides Limbaugh and knocks him on his fat arse!
- tomasII, on 03/16/2009, -3/+15Everything is on the wane in California.
- inactive, on 03/16/2009, -1/+12The local Conservatives numbers are dropping, but they are all that is left. I know print and radio well, having worked with both. I can assure you that the local Conservative talk here, will last longer than the LA Times.
And that is dead honest, political bias aside. If you are not sports talk, or Conservative talk, your ad rev is hurting. - PeppermintPig, on 03/16/2009, -11/+22Actually, conservative radio usually thrives when their 'adversaries' are in power. The free publicity Rush has been getting is one indication, for example.
Still doesn't change the fact that conservative radio is, for the most part, rhetorical drivel. - MyNameIsGusto, on 03/16/2009, -3/+13Good radio is on the wane too. RIP 97.1 in socal.
- poopsybythebay, on 03/16/2009, -12/+22You are very wrong dude--the company that has Rush Limpdicks show is about to file for bankruptcy--so I'm not sure what other right wing cranks the company has on it's roster, but they aren't doing well at all. So I am not sure where you get your info from, but you are wrong. Also, what does the LA Times have to do with your guy getting the boot. Even if the LA times is doing poorly it does not stop the fact that your guys are on the way out as well. Try to keep up--I know it's tough for you guys, but give it a shot.
- justinbaker, on 03/16/2009, -9/+19i agree that AM radio is mainly conservative, but every major tv news station (except fox) is liberal as hell.
are they supposed to be bipartisan?
at least fox news is upfront on which side they are on
dont misunderstand me, im a democrat, i just dont see how the media can be so far left - fmaxwell, on 03/16/2009, -8/+18It's really pretty easy to understand if you just consider all of the institutions and states which conservatives say are too liberal.
Television news shows are liberal.
The courts are liberal.
New England and California are liberal.
Hollywood is liberal.
Colleges and universities are liberal.
NPR is liberal.
The Jon Stewart show is liberal.
Basically, anywhere that people are educated and informed is deemed "too liberal." Cause and effect: If you get educated, you become liberal.
There's a reason why George W. Bush swept the ten states with the lowest education levels while Gore (in 2000) and Kerry (in 2004) took all but one of the states with the highest post-high school education levels. - pinchduck, on 03/16/2009, -0/+9What? The market deciding what to put on radio without the intervention of "The Fairness Doctrine" or Stabenow? How could this be? It's unpossible!!!!
- SpinningHead, on 03/16/2009, -4/+13@wminzlaff
Yes, clearly to be conservative (for the status quo) shows more intellect than empirical thinking and adaptability.
That explains why the Pew Center study showed that viewers of the Daily Show and PBS had a much better grasp on facts than Fox viewers. - inactive, on 03/16/2009, -4/+12I love AM radio. I listen to it constantly. Don't care for Limbaugh but there are some good shows that come on.
- sugarazor, on 03/16/2009, -3/+11I love radio period, it's why it makes me so sad to see it die.
- demicritter, on 03/16/2009, -25/+33Only the LAme Times could claim the demise of conservative radio. Meanwhile, liberal radio is so abysmally bad it didn't even make the LAme Times list.
- CaptCarrot, on 03/16/2009, -3/+11The headline's a bit of a (wet) pipe dream for liberals. Misleading, naturally.
- inactive, on 03/16/2009, -3/+11kfi's john and ken are really amazing...they make hannity look like scholars...think morning zoo meets politics...two monkeys that heard conservative talk radio was popular and then tried to imitate it.
- inactive, on 03/16/2009, -7/+15Hey lying jackass, I live in LA and john and ken are conservatives. Or to be more precise, two morning zoo douche bag types who pretend to know what they're talking about.
- flip2trip, on 03/16/2009, -3/+11I have to admit there are some funny posts on this thread. The ones I like are those that attack the medium of radio as being "out of date" because they just cannot understand why no one wants to listen to liberal blather for 3 hours.
- inactive, on 03/16/2009, -8/+16hahahah your such a tool.
- fromaworld, on 03/16/2009, -4/+11There's a reply button for a reason. Use it.
- gttim, on 03/16/2009, -0/+7Also, those numbers are not unique listeners but total listeners a week- estimated. If a guy listens all 5 days, he is included 5 times. Actual unique listeners a week is probably closer to 3 or 4 million. However, nobody actually counts his listeners because it is difficult to count listeners in all those little AM markets he is pumped into. Limbaugh can make up any number he wants. And he does.
- skeptictank, on 03/16/2009, -13/+20I am an old geezer and only listen to talk radio on long trips and out of sheer curiosity. I try to keep an open mind but I'm sorry, most conservative talk shows rely too much on demagoguery and not enough on facts. It does however, re-enforce the world view of it's listeners, twisted as it may be. But the fact is the core group of conservative radio listeners(older white males) is dwindling. And as it was mentioned before, "liberals" are younger, usually college educated and just don't have the time to listen to talk radio. If they do... most of the ones I know, including me listen to NPR.
- thinkb4utype, on 03/16/2009, -3/+10I'm surprised that any English-language media in California still has any audience share. I thought all radio, TV, and newspapers were Spanish-language in that state by now.
- sleestakslayer, on 03/16/2009, -0/+7Is it dying because people don't listen anymore, or is it dying because its just racing to the bottom by cutting local shows and staff and just piping through syndicated tripe and playlists?
- trevor98, on 03/16/2009, -0/+7Is radio more outdated than newspapers?
- fmaxwell, on 03/16/2009, -4/+10@wminzlaff
"no...if you actually used a thinking process of any kind, you'd be conservative"
No, conservatives are far less educated than liberals. Ever wonder why the most highly educated parts of the country are liberal and why the least educated are conservative? Ever wonder why colleges are so liberal? Ever wonder why Dubya lost in every one of the ten most highly educated states but won in nine of the ten least educated? Facts must suck if you're a conservative.
"now digg this down so i know i did good!"
"Did well," not "did good." You people are just scary-ignorant. - bjornski, on 03/16/2009, -0/+6No, they're using Twitter now.
- inactive, on 03/16/2009, -3/+9hhahah your a stupid tool
- TheInformer, on 03/16/2009, -11/+17Funny that liberals cannot make a talk radio venture work. Anywhere. Even when backed by loads of capital. Interesting. Talk radio doesn't have visual flash, so one has to listen and think. TV is visual flash and doesn't require thinking, for example American Idol.
As for Fox News, it's one middle of the road voice compared to CNN, CNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, MSNBC, and the rest. Notice the phrase "compared to".
If the leftists didn't have Fox News to complain about, what would they do? If conservatives didn't have CNN to complain about, then there still is a long list of alphabet networks that toe the leftist line. - PeppermintPig, on 03/16/2009, -7/+13Further, gains relative to what other political radio is doing are not cited in the article.
Liberty oriented radio IS on the rise, while liberal radio seems to be making no advances upon conservative radio, even as it's falling aside due to the economic situation. - mithrasinvictus, on 03/16/2009, -0/+6Oh, come on. He was their presidential candidate. They even preferred him over mcCain in the 2000 primary.
- Kevin108, on 03/16/2009, -0/+6lol buy music
- inactive, on 03/16/2009, -3/+9Buried for a misleading headline.
- 919kwjc, on 03/16/2009, -6/+12Yes, people with a brain use words like Gawd and horsepucky, and all caps. Nice work.
- inactive, on 03/16/2009, -9/+15Great source, douche bag.
Nationally, Limbaugh's office puts his audience at 20 million per week. The national trade magazine Talkers, which does a semiannual count, estimates his listenership at "more than 14.25 million." John Mainelli, Limbaugh's former program director at WABC, says Limbaugh’s audience has declined from its peak in the 1990s and now stands around "12 million, tops."
Rush is also just one show, douche bag. -
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