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Originally Posted by Derwood
because the vast majority of their audience doesn't view them as entertainers. they view them as fonts of wisdom who sermonize from their radio pulpit about the evils of socialism and various other fairy tales. Don't confuse the motives of the entertainer with their audience
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I don't know what the norm is for Glenn Beck but this shows he had 3 million viewers on 8/26. 3 million is less that 1% of the US population, I would assume many of his viewers are liberal (just like I watch Oberman occasionally just to see what he is talking about - ironically he spends a lot of time talking about people like Beck). I am also going to assume his viewers are going to decline because he is not very good.
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Last night Glenn Beck had over 3 million viewers at 5pm, second only to O’Reilly for the night.
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Big Beck: Goes over 3 million viewers, beats O’Reilly in demo: Cable News Ratings for Wednesday, August 26, 2009 - TV Ratings, Nielsen Ratings, Television Show Ratings | TVbytheNumbers.com
Ditto for Rush listeners:
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Premiere Radio Networks, Limbaugh's national syndicator, estimated last year that 3.59 million people were in Limbaugh's audience during an average quarter-hour of his program, based on a review of Arbitron's piecemeal data about hundreds of stations.
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Daily Kos: Counting Limbaugh's listeners
read the entire article, the numbers are in dispute, based on counting methods.
I have not checked but Chris Rock may be reaching as many or more people than Beck. Chris Rock's political commentary is much more entertaining.