Do More Now Listen To Limbaugh Than Watch Network News?

Viewership for the week of May 3 was a combined 19,410,000 for the ABC, CBS and NBC network newscasts according to the trade site MediaBistro.Com

This puts them behind radio talk show giant Rush Limbaugh who has 20 million plus weekly listeners according to Wikipedia citing the trade publication Talkers Magazine.

The breakdown is: 7,430,000 viewers for Brian Williams at NBC Nightly News; 7 million for ABC World News With Diane Sawyer; and 4,980,000 for Katie Couric at CBS Evening News.

Newsbusters.org did a little research and found that that is a combined loss of 1.67 million viewers from the week of May 4, 2009.

And 70 percent of the viewers of network news is over the age of 54.

The good news for the nets is they still beat Sean Hannity who has 16 million radio listeners and 1.9 million viewers of his Fox News Channel show.

OTOH, Laura Ingraham, Mark Levin and Dave Ramsey, who are tied for 6th place among radio talk show hosts with about 6.25 million weekly listeners, handily spank Katie Couric.

Now, there is a bit of apples vs. oranges in making these comparisons since radio audience is determined by Arbitron and is based on unduplicated listeners, while the TV networks use Nielsen Media Research which reports an average of nightly viewership over the week with obviously most of the same people watching  each night.

A year ago, however, the answer as to who touches more would not be debated.

 

Do More Now Listen To Limbaugh Than Watch Network News?

Do More Now Listen To Limbaugh Than Watch Network News?

One thought on “Do More Now Listen To Limbaugh Than Watch Network News?”


  1. I have been a Rush listener for many years. He is a voice of sanity in an upside down country. We can no longer trust far left network media because they are owned by NWO money. The NWO and all elected officials who are part of it are American Traitors. We must UNELECT all in Washington who have seats that are part of this One World Government, Satanically inspired agenda, to control the masses with a bio chip.(Mark of the Beast,Page 1004 or the health care bill) These groups are The Bilderbergs, The TLC, and THE CFR. If we do not get these people kicked out of office, it matters not who the president is. They put them there and control them as puppet masters. Rush,on(EIB)radio is one of few AMERICANS who is not afraid to open his mouth and speak the truth as he sees it. He is a real conservative and not a RINO. We have too many of those in the Republican party. Thank God the TEA party is kicking butt and targeting names for removal in November. Thanks.

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