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Arbitron: Rush Limbaugh’s ratings have fallen 27% to 40% in key markets The Limbaugh Ship of Fail is slowly sinking. Rush Limbaugh’s ratings have dropped sharply in several major markets following the firestorm over his comments about Sandra Fluke, Politico reports. […] Politico’s Dylan Byers got an early look at the latest ratings report from Arbitron: The conservative radio host’s ratings fell 27 percent in the key 25-54 demo in New York City, 31 percent in Houston-Galveston, 40 percent in Seattle-Tacoma, and 35 percent in Jacksonville, according to a selection of the March 29-April 25 Arbitron ratings provided by an industry source. Sources told Byers that it was possible that a bubble has burst: Limbaugh saw a spike in listeners due to the controversy, and now those people have stopped tuning in. Limbaugh’s ratings were also up in other markets, such as San Francisco. Rush Limbaugh Ratings Drop In Several Big Markets
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Arbitron: Rush Limbaugh’s ratings have fallen 27% to 40% in key markets

The Limbaugh Ship of Fail is slowly sinking.

Rush Limbaugh’s ratings have dropped sharply in several major markets following the firestorm over his comments about Sandra Fluke, Politico reports. […] Politico’s Dylan Byers got an early look at the latest ratings report from Arbitron:

The conservative radio host’s ratings fell 27 percent in the key 25-54 demo in New York City, 31 percent in Houston-Galveston, 40 percent in Seattle-Tacoma, and 35 percent in Jacksonville, according to a selection of the March 29-April 25 Arbitron ratings provided by an industry source.

Sources told Byers that it was possible that a bubble has burst: Limbaugh saw a spike in listeners due to the controversy, and now those people have stopped tuning in. Limbaugh’s ratings were also up in other markets, such as San Francisco.

Rush Limbaugh Ratings Drop In Several Big Markets

A couple of Andrew Sullivan‘s readers want to challenge the unquestioned / untested fiction that both Arbitron and Limbaugh have handed to us for 18 years, about how many millions of listeners his show draws. Not only do both Limbaugh and Arbitron have a vested financial interest in propping the numbers, but the actual listeners themselves may not feel so great about being braying Dittoheads if they knew that their total hoard was actually between 1-2 million instead of 15-20 million.
Limbaugh’s (and Arbitron’s) fantastical fairytale of 20 million listeners
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