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Meghan McCain is not taking any of the Laura Ingraham insults without responding...noting on the TV syndicated "The View" program that Laura Ingraham can "kiss my fat ass".
Laura Ingraham notes to McCain that she is being used...
The Blogosphere is working the story...
NewsTalkers are all over former the V-P Cheney Sunday statement (which was a repeat of something he has said previously) that the President is making it easier for the country to become a target for terrorists.
Now, of course, he’s on the receiving end of the White House ful power...
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President Obama is reverting to campaign style tactics to gain support for budget policies. Will it work and reduce opposition rancor?
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At the time last week that the claim was made that Limbaugh’s audience had doubled to 20-million listeners, we said why not check the ARB numbers. Well, there were none available and no credible methodology to validate such a claim.
We were not the only ones to question the number...
Why stop at 20? Why not claim Limbaugh has 50 million listeners each week?
Obviously radio syndicators have ratings numbers off of which they sell advertising, but those figures are closely held -- unlike Arbitron data, which is more widely avail able.
So, basically, it’s up to the syndicator to dole out the ratings numbers to the press; like last year, when Limbaugh’s syndicator, Premiere Radio Networks, claimed 20 million listeners tuned into Limbaugh’s show each week.
As a radio trade reporter confirmed to MSNBC last week, common industry shorthand to determine the actual size of a radio audience at any given moment is to cut the cume figure down by a factor of 10, which would mean Limbaugh’s 20 million becomes 2 million.Or, if you take the more modest cume number of 14 million, which some inside the industry have used to judge the talker’s audience, Limbaugh’s rating becomes 1.4 million, which is roughly the same size audience that Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann get each night on cable TV.
So why doesn’t the press treat them as the ultimate kingmakers?
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It’s the kind of story we hate to hear... our good friend Don Imus told his radio show listeners this morning that he’s battling Stage II prostate cancer.
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There is good news for NewsTalkers...
New Coleman study stays spoken word can thrive in PPM - especially all-news and sports.
The broad average for spoken word rises when comparing 80+ stations under their first four People Meter months, to their previous four diary quarterlies. Their 12+ AQH share improved from 2.1 to a 2.4, says Jon Coleman at last weekend’s R&R Talk Radio Seminar.
Spoken word stations do a smidgeon better than that in 25-54s and 35-64s. (Particularly in morning drive.) And the biggest contributors, format-wise, are all-news stations and sports. While the stations defined as “news/talk” - which I’m guessing are mostly “talk” - indexed at a 102, pretty much even with their diary numbers.
Public radio stations that specialize in news/talk/information index at a 94 - worse than the diary. (All-news indexes at 140 and sports at 134.) So why the increases? Coleman Insights says it’s mostly a matter of better TSL, Time Spent listening. It’s true the cume rises compared to the diary, but less than it does for some other formats.
But even with the cume and TSL gains, Coleman says the better average share for the broad spoken word category “does not result in rank improvement.” Coleman’s been producing an ongoing series titled Mapping the DNA of PPM”, and the “spoken-word” pdf is here.
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It’s a BIG story in the Newspaper biz today... Hearst says it’s great Seattle paper - the P.I. will discontinue publishing a paper edition and go on-line beginning next week.
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It’s the kind of stuff that sells newspapers and generates audience. Former Presient Bush and Vice President Cheney are at odds.
It’s a bitter disagreement over "Scooter" Libby and the how’s and why’s of Libby not receiving a Presidential pardon...
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Under pressure from the Feds., AIG is scaling back those controversial bonuses we’ve been talking about so much this past week.
BUT, they were big news and talk Sunday and will be again today!
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Just how long did you think the Administration would continue in its day-to-day business before taking a few verbal shots at the former Administration?
And, why not say it as it is... as President Obama pointed out the other day while speaking to business executives.
His Administration inherited a trillion dollar debt load -- so is honesty too much a threat?
Or, is that in opposition to what the President said back in January that he was not going to do?
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NewsTalkRADIO may be our core business but we certainly enjoy TV Talkers who know how to cut through the clutter and be heard.
Take Jon Stewart for example. Can he see how to build an audience and what people want to HEAR?
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Here’s a question we’re hearing more and more lately... just what are Entertainer Limbaugh’s true core belief’s. Is he "really" a true conservative?
Some are saying just a minute and here’s why...
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Important declarations come on Fridays... for a variety of reasons...
One of which is to minimize the amount of press that they receive.
For instance on Friday the 13th as the White House declared it would no longer label terror suspects down at Gitmo as Terror Combatants...
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Bernie Madoff was lead off to Fed. Prison Thursday afternoon after pleading guilty to charges he was the guy in charge of a HUGE Ponzi scheme.
But, that left his wife and a lot of people wondering whether her income, and money that Bernie had as of the end of 2008, came from the ill goten gains of Bernie’s scheming... has it all been worked out?
How much is it worth? Guess again....
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All eyes will be on the Federal Courthouse in NYC come JUNE 16th as Bernie Madoff is sentenced. And, once he arrives at the Big House he’ll no doubt be the center of attraction...
Until then bail is revoked and Madoff’s next meal will come only after he stands in line with others in jail.
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Mention the name Anna Nicole Smith and watch the reactions...
Now, following a two year investigation... it turns out that the government believes her boyfriend and doctor’s were not her best friends as you might have believed...
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