John Stewart has become just another Democrat National Committee Lackey.
What's next. Him teaming up with Chris Mathews in a big "leg tingle"?
- Jackie S
- 05-16-2014, 06:00 PM
- LordBeaverbrook
- 05-16-2014, 06:15 PM
John Stewart has become just another Democrat National Committee Lackey.What is next is Rush's ratings collapse. The people are wising up and the market is speaking. 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.
What's next. Him teaming up with Chris Mathews in a big "leg tingle"? Originally Posted by Jackie S
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/05/01/rush-limbaughs-ratings-state-complete-collapse.html
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/05/...-collapse.html
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/05...tries-t/199124
Limbaugh's observation curiously coincides with new reports that Limbaugh's own show has run into ratings trouble. Three months after a much-hyped switch to a Clear Channel-owned station in Los Angeles bearing the call letters of Limbaugh's own "Excellence in Broadcasting" motto, The Rush Limbaugh Show has suffered significant drops in ratings. Limbaugh's show was a top-rated show in Los Angeles before moving to KEIB; in March, his show was ranked 37th, according to Nielsen ratings. By contrast, Limbaugh's former Los Angeles station remains a top-10 station with an audience six times larger than his current outlet. Meanwhile, in San Francisco, the ratings of Limbaugh's new station there have remained flat despite his addition.
Limbaugh's drop in the ratings are not limited to the Los Angeles market. In New York, the nation's largest radio market, Limbaugh's program dropped to 22nd after moving to another Clear Channel-owned station.
- IIFFOFRDB
- 05-16-2014, 06:22 PM
What is next is Rush's ratings collapse. The people are wising up and the market is speaking. 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.
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/05/01/rush-limbaughs-ratings-state-complete-collapse.html
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/05/...-collapse.html
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/05...tries-t/199124
Limbaugh's observation curiously coincides with new reports that Limbaugh's own show has run into ratings trouble. Three months after a much-hyped switch to a Clear Channel-owned station in Los Angeles bearing the call letters of Limbaugh's own "Excellence in Broadcasting" motto, The Rush Limbaugh Show has suffered significant drops in ratings. Limbaugh's show was a top-rated show in Los Angeles before moving to KEIB; in March, his show was ranked 37th, according to Nielsen ratings. By contrast, Limbaugh's former Los Angeles station remains a top-10 station with an audience six times larger than his current outlet. Meanwhile, in San Francisco, the ratings of Limbaugh's new station there have remained flat despite his addition.
Limbaugh's drop in the ratings are not limited to the Los Angeles market. In New York, the nation's largest radio market, Limbaugh's program dropped to 22nd after moving to another Clear Channel-owned station. Originally Posted by LordBeaverbrook
Maybe Rush should play some Rap music on his show? Then he could get that all important THUG listener from NY City and LA...
- Munchmasterman
- 05-16-2014, 07:04 PM
- CuteOldGuy
- 05-16-2014, 07:42 PM
He's had a long, amazing run, and he revolutionized AM radio. But it is getting old. I haven't listened for years, except sporadically. He's not the revolutionary he once was. He's a mainstream Republican. Boring as hell. I even listen to NPR more than talk radio. Better jazz!
- Old-T
- 05-16-2014, 07:48 PM
- IIFFOFRDB
- 05-17-2014, 06:31 PM
- IIFFOFRDB
- 05-17-2014, 10:44 PM
Rush Limbaugh will be fine
Cumulus and the Dickey brother managers, not so much... LOL
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeffrey...ses-50-chicago
By Jeffrey Lord | May 17, 2014 | 13:22
It’s the kind of conservative media story only conservatives understand.
The latest numbers are out for Michael Savage’s radio show. Recall that Savage was a key player in the battle between Sean Hannity and Cumulus radio. A battle that had an exasperated Hannity finally firing Cumulus, as reported here in NewsBusters at the time. But not before Savage, whom Cumulus had in the wings to replace Hannity in the latter’s Cumulus slots, took shots at Hannity, gloating at taking Hannity’s slot.
The Savage numbers tell a revealing tale of conservatism in the media. So let’s start with the brand new numbers themselves, numbers supplied by Nielsen Audio. They are the numbers for April – last month -, and cover 52 of America’s major radio markets. We will directly compare them here with Sean Hannity’s last numbers before being replaced on Cumulus stations - which is to say Hannity’s numbers for December, 2013. The percentages cited – again, these are from Nielsen Audio (formerly known as Arbitron) – are nothing if not startling.
New York – WABC – Savage numbers drop by 50%.
Chicago – WLS – Savage numbers drop by 59%
San Francisco – KSFO – Savage numbers drops by 26%
Dallas-Fort Worth – WBAP FM – Savage numbers drop by 13%
Houston-Galveston – KSEV – Savage numbers drop by 55%
Washington, DC – WMAL – Savage numbers drop by 17%
One could go on here through the entire devastating list that includes one major market after another all across the country. Markets with names like Seattle-Tacoma (-40%), Kansas City (-21%), Norfolk/Virginia Beach/Newport News, Virginia (-50%) and Memphis (-75%). But we’ll mercifully stop by saying that the average percentage drop in those 52 markets from the Hannity December 2013 numbers to the Savage April 2014 numbers is 47%. – again, according to Nielsen.
Why is this happening? The answer is as simple as it is predictable. Cumulus radio - at the express direction of its Dickey brother managers – has earned itself a reputation as despising its conservative talk radio audience. While Rush Limbaugh – also a longtime Savage target as was and is Hannity – eventually re-signed, in fact he was for months made the public target of the Dickeys. The attacks launched an endless round of stories in the liberal media depicting Rush as a “drag” on company earnings and more. One can write all this off as mere “contract negotiating in public” – but in fact the only possible outcome of this was to raise the hackles of Rush’s fans when it came to Cumulus itself. Many of Rush’s fans being, unsurprisingly, also being Hannity fans.
Hannity is an indelible voice of the modern conservative movement. His very persona – upbeat, optimistic, straight to the ideological point at hand – is, as they say in conservative shorthand, decidedly Reaganesque. But as we mentioned in this space last week, Cumulus has a perpetual problem that in fact has nothing – yet everything – to do with its conservative audience.
Perhaps the most astute reader of the Cumulus tea leaves is Inside the Music’s Jerry Del Colliano, who is a veritable encyclopedia on the behind-the-scenes of the radio business. Back in August of last year, as the Hannity-Cumulus relationship began to crash on the rocks quite publicly, Del Colliano presciently wrote that if Hannity departed New York’s Cumulus-owned WABC for WOR (along with Rush) the result would be the “eviscerating (of) whatever ratings WABC had left.” Del Colliano went on to predict Big Trouble for WABC , saying “if Savage replaces Hannity on WABC, Savage will be number one in angry men, 70 years old and older” adding “some advertisers think (Savage) is unsellable on the air in prime time.” Hannity and Limbaugh did in fact depart WABC for WOR, and Savage now holds Hannity’s once-sterling 3-6pm WABC time slot.
Now, the April Nielsens are out. And as night follows day, there in black and white are the cruel numbers at WABC, not to mention all those other stations. The difference in audience draw between Hannity in December and Savage in April on WABC is a full 50% drop. The word for that is free-fall.
But well aside from the political ramifications, the real focus here will have to be the base-line measurement in terms of what Cumulus in fact is. Cumulus isn’t about radio, it’s about business. Earning money for shareholders. And as reported in multiples of outlets, as here, for example, in Breitbart Cumulus is in increasingly deep water without a paddle. As noted in that Breitbart story from just last month, TheStreet.com rated Cumulus as a “hold”, giving it a “C-ratings” score.
“We do not recommend additional investment in this stock despite its gains in the past year... Compared to other companies in the Media industry and the overall market, CUMULUS MEDIA INC's return on equity significantly trails that of both the industry average and the S&P 500. The company, on the basis of change in net income from the same quarter one year ago, has significantly underperformed when compared to that of the S&P 500 and the Media industry. The net income has significantly decreased by 87.4% when compared to the same quarter one year ago, falling from $56.05 million to $7.04 million.”
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist with a Nobel in economics to understand that the 50% difference – make that drop – in the WABC ratings for Hannity in December and Savage in April and the row after row of similar dismal stats in the ratings “book” are playing a real role in all of this.
The real question here has to eventually become what it always is in a business situation like this with a publicly held company. When a company starts losing its customers – in this case that means ratings – somewhere along the line the company’s shareholders begin to get concerned. Put in context here, Hannity’s radio audience followed their favorite out the Cumulus door at WABC and all those other Cumulus stations across the nation as well. Whether the idea at Cumulus was to so anger Hannity that he departed and they were left with Savage as a result or, as Del Colliano believes, the Cumulus objective was to kill conservative talk radio – period - it is eventually not going to matter. Whether this strategy was followed quite deliberately or whether it was simple managerial incompetence, the fact of the matter is that the Savage-for-Hannity switch has left these radio properties hemorrhaging audience..
But whatever the reasoning and whatever the reason, the fact of the matter is that the April 2014 Nielsen ratings for Savage - seen in comparison with Hannity’s last Nielsen ratings book at the same stations in the same time slot for December - is nothing short of devastating.
This is, without doubt, one of the most eerily fascinating conservative media stories out there, with an entire radio audience simply turning against a radio network’s handpicked host at the departure of their favorite.
The question? When will the shareholders of Cumulus follow the audience and turn against the Dickeys?
Based on these latest numbers it can only be a matter of time.
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeffrey...#ixzz322TgbNv2
Cumulus and the Dickey brother managers, not so much... LOL
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeffrey...ses-50-chicago
By Jeffrey Lord | May 17, 2014 | 13:22
It’s the kind of conservative media story only conservatives understand.
The latest numbers are out for Michael Savage’s radio show. Recall that Savage was a key player in the battle between Sean Hannity and Cumulus radio. A battle that had an exasperated Hannity finally firing Cumulus, as reported here in NewsBusters at the time. But not before Savage, whom Cumulus had in the wings to replace Hannity in the latter’s Cumulus slots, took shots at Hannity, gloating at taking Hannity’s slot.
The Savage numbers tell a revealing tale of conservatism in the media. So let’s start with the brand new numbers themselves, numbers supplied by Nielsen Audio. They are the numbers for April – last month -, and cover 52 of America’s major radio markets. We will directly compare them here with Sean Hannity’s last numbers before being replaced on Cumulus stations - which is to say Hannity’s numbers for December, 2013. The percentages cited – again, these are from Nielsen Audio (formerly known as Arbitron) – are nothing if not startling.
New York – WABC – Savage numbers drop by 50%.
Chicago – WLS – Savage numbers drop by 59%
San Francisco – KSFO – Savage numbers drops by 26%
Dallas-Fort Worth – WBAP FM – Savage numbers drop by 13%
Houston-Galveston – KSEV – Savage numbers drop by 55%
Washington, DC – WMAL – Savage numbers drop by 17%
One could go on here through the entire devastating list that includes one major market after another all across the country. Markets with names like Seattle-Tacoma (-40%), Kansas City (-21%), Norfolk/Virginia Beach/Newport News, Virginia (-50%) and Memphis (-75%). But we’ll mercifully stop by saying that the average percentage drop in those 52 markets from the Hannity December 2013 numbers to the Savage April 2014 numbers is 47%. – again, according to Nielsen.
Why is this happening? The answer is as simple as it is predictable. Cumulus radio - at the express direction of its Dickey brother managers – has earned itself a reputation as despising its conservative talk radio audience. While Rush Limbaugh – also a longtime Savage target as was and is Hannity – eventually re-signed, in fact he was for months made the public target of the Dickeys. The attacks launched an endless round of stories in the liberal media depicting Rush as a “drag” on company earnings and more. One can write all this off as mere “contract negotiating in public” – but in fact the only possible outcome of this was to raise the hackles of Rush’s fans when it came to Cumulus itself. Many of Rush’s fans being, unsurprisingly, also being Hannity fans.
Hannity is an indelible voice of the modern conservative movement. His very persona – upbeat, optimistic, straight to the ideological point at hand – is, as they say in conservative shorthand, decidedly Reaganesque. But as we mentioned in this space last week, Cumulus has a perpetual problem that in fact has nothing – yet everything – to do with its conservative audience.
Perhaps the most astute reader of the Cumulus tea leaves is Inside the Music’s Jerry Del Colliano, who is a veritable encyclopedia on the behind-the-scenes of the radio business. Back in August of last year, as the Hannity-Cumulus relationship began to crash on the rocks quite publicly, Del Colliano presciently wrote that if Hannity departed New York’s Cumulus-owned WABC for WOR (along with Rush) the result would be the “eviscerating (of) whatever ratings WABC had left.” Del Colliano went on to predict Big Trouble for WABC , saying “if Savage replaces Hannity on WABC, Savage will be number one in angry men, 70 years old and older” adding “some advertisers think (Savage) is unsellable on the air in prime time.” Hannity and Limbaugh did in fact depart WABC for WOR, and Savage now holds Hannity’s once-sterling 3-6pm WABC time slot.
Now, the April Nielsens are out. And as night follows day, there in black and white are the cruel numbers at WABC, not to mention all those other stations. The difference in audience draw between Hannity in December and Savage in April on WABC is a full 50% drop. The word for that is free-fall.
But well aside from the political ramifications, the real focus here will have to be the base-line measurement in terms of what Cumulus in fact is. Cumulus isn’t about radio, it’s about business. Earning money for shareholders. And as reported in multiples of outlets, as here, for example, in Breitbart Cumulus is in increasingly deep water without a paddle. As noted in that Breitbart story from just last month, TheStreet.com rated Cumulus as a “hold”, giving it a “C-ratings” score.
“We do not recommend additional investment in this stock despite its gains in the past year... Compared to other companies in the Media industry and the overall market, CUMULUS MEDIA INC's return on equity significantly trails that of both the industry average and the S&P 500. The company, on the basis of change in net income from the same quarter one year ago, has significantly underperformed when compared to that of the S&P 500 and the Media industry. The net income has significantly decreased by 87.4% when compared to the same quarter one year ago, falling from $56.05 million to $7.04 million.”
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist with a Nobel in economics to understand that the 50% difference – make that drop – in the WABC ratings for Hannity in December and Savage in April and the row after row of similar dismal stats in the ratings “book” are playing a real role in all of this.
The real question here has to eventually become what it always is in a business situation like this with a publicly held company. When a company starts losing its customers – in this case that means ratings – somewhere along the line the company’s shareholders begin to get concerned. Put in context here, Hannity’s radio audience followed their favorite out the Cumulus door at WABC and all those other Cumulus stations across the nation as well. Whether the idea at Cumulus was to so anger Hannity that he departed and they were left with Savage as a result or, as Del Colliano believes, the Cumulus objective was to kill conservative talk radio – period - it is eventually not going to matter. Whether this strategy was followed quite deliberately or whether it was simple managerial incompetence, the fact of the matter is that the Savage-for-Hannity switch has left these radio properties hemorrhaging audience..
But whatever the reasoning and whatever the reason, the fact of the matter is that the April 2014 Nielsen ratings for Savage - seen in comparison with Hannity’s last Nielsen ratings book at the same stations in the same time slot for December - is nothing short of devastating.
This is, without doubt, one of the most eerily fascinating conservative media stories out there, with an entire radio audience simply turning against a radio network’s handpicked host at the departure of their favorite.
The question? When will the shareholders of Cumulus follow the audience and turn against the Dickeys?
Based on these latest numbers it can only be a matter of time.
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeffrey...#ixzz322TgbNv2
- Old-T
- 05-17-2014, 10:55 PM
Why do you think people care about Wacko on Wacko crime?
- Guest040616
- 05-18-2014, 02:05 AM
Salma Hayek offers a little #F*@KYOURUSH advice. Apparently our First Lady is not alone.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/cannes-2014...emiere-1448998
Salma Hayek has no trouble attracting attention, but the savvy star used her moment in the glare of the world's media at the Cannes Film Festival, to highlight the campaign for the release of 300 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram.
Arriving for the out of competition "tribute to animated films", a special screening of extracts from Khalil Gibran's The Prophet, the star held up a sign reading '#Bring Back Our Girls.'
Proving there's a place for politics even on the red carpet, the actress managed to bring something meaningful to the parade of beautiful people, as she publicly pledged her support for the safe return of the Nigerian schoolgirls.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/cannes-2014...emiere-1448998
Salma Hayek has no trouble attracting attention, but the savvy star used her moment in the glare of the world's media at the Cannes Film Festival, to highlight the campaign for the release of 300 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram.
Arriving for the out of competition "tribute to animated films", a special screening of extracts from Khalil Gibran's The Prophet, the star held up a sign reading '#Bring Back Our Girls.'
Proving there's a place for politics even on the red carpet, the actress managed to bring something meaningful to the parade of beautiful people, as she publicly pledged her support for the safe return of the Nigerian schoolgirls.
- Guest040616
- 05-18-2014, 06:07 AM
It has been almost a week since this thread was first began and not one of our Far Right Wing-Nut posters has joined with Jon Stewart in offering criticism against The King of Slime (Rush Slimebaugh) for his actions.
Is anyone surprise? I'm not!
There you have it folks, this thread offers further proof that Slime refuses to criticize its fellow Slime.
In closing, I will leave our Far Right Wing-Nut posters with a couple of additional thoughts.
#F*@KYOURUSH and while we are at it #F*@KYOUTOO!
Is anyone surprise? I'm not!
There you have it folks, this thread offers further proof that Slime refuses to criticize its fellow Slime.
In closing, I will leave our Far Right Wing-Nut posters with a couple of additional thoughts.
#F*@KYOURUSH and while we are at it #F*@KYOUTOO!
- Jackie S
- 05-18-2014, 06:52 AM
What The First Lady showed in her holding up that sign was a complete naïveté as to the type of animals we are dealing with in Nigeria. Or, for that matter, any thugs hiding under the disguise of "Muslim".
Social media. Give me a break. "OMG, Johnny kissed Jill at lunch"......"oh, and let my girls go".
The fact that those poor girls are still missing is proof that much of the Muslim World condones the actions. It probably goes right along with their attitudes toward women in general. They are merly property to be used for what ever men's needs and pleasures must be met.
The President of Nigeria says they can't find them? Fuck him. Just like Osama Bin Laden had been holed up just a few blocks from a Pakistani Military Base, this bunch of thugs are probably within eyesight of the Presidential Palace. Hell, he might have even ordered up one of the girls for himself.
The sign should have read, "your dead". Next.
Social media. Give me a break. "OMG, Johnny kissed Jill at lunch"......"oh, and let my girls go".
The fact that those poor girls are still missing is proof that much of the Muslim World condones the actions. It probably goes right along with their attitudes toward women in general. They are merly property to be used for what ever men's needs and pleasures must be met.
The President of Nigeria says they can't find them? Fuck him. Just like Osama Bin Laden had been holed up just a few blocks from a Pakistani Military Base, this bunch of thugs are probably within eyesight of the Presidential Palace. Hell, he might have even ordered up one of the girls for himself.
The sign should have read, "your dead". Next.
- i'va biggen
- 05-18-2014, 10:16 AM
Rush to judgement will have plenty of Kool aid sippers kneeling at his feet. Bet Bundy is a regular, along with Sterling.
- Guest040616
- 05-18-2014, 12:46 PM
- cowboy8055
- 05-18-2014, 01:17 PM
Salma Hayek has no trouble attracting attention, but the savvy star used her moment in the glare of the world's media at the Cannes Film Festival, to highlight the campaign for the release of 300 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram. Originally Posted by bigtexWe could have used her help leading a campaign against Boko Haram a few years ago. The FBI and CIA requested they be classified as terrorists but Hillary refused. This group has been killing people for years. Not too long ago they burned to death 59 school boys but we didn't hear a word about it. I guess it's a bigger deal kidnapping girls than it is burning and killing boys.