{"id":16120,"date":"2012-03-29T17:49:17","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T17:49:17","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-03-29T17:49:17","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T17:49:17","slug":"because_you_asked_our_ratings_are_up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/03\/29\/because_you_asked_our_ratings_are_up\/","title":{"rendered":"Because You Asked&#8230; Our Ratings are Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><BR\/>RUSH: I have been, over the course of the past month&#8230; And this is inside baseball stuff, but you people have been so terrific during this past month.  Normally this is a question I wouldn\u2019t answer, but I\u2019m going to answer it \u2019cause I\u2019m being peppered constantly.  &#8220;What have your ratings been since that whole Fluke thing happened?&#8221;  And normally I don\u2019t talk about them in specifics because in the ethics of the broadcast business you don\u2019t do it. You don\u2019t do <\/line><BR\/>anything that would artificially affect them and there are penalties if you get too specific about methodology and so forth.  It\u2019s enough to say: Most listened to radio talk show in the country ever, and it\u2019s unlikely to ever be topped.<\/line><\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_60856\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/MIcLogo23Years_250Wide.jpg\"\/><BR\/>That\u2019s enough to say. <\/line><\/p>\n<p>But I\u2019ll just answer the question this way.  In the past month&#8230; Radio ratings are taken many different ways.  They\u2019re broken down in almost impossibly humorous ways.  For example, if I wanted to, I could probably make the case that I am the number one show among one-armed amputees at the corner of whatever and whatever in SoHo on Friday afternoons in the third hour.  If I wanted to make that claim, I\u2019m sure I could find it in there.  But the simple answer is that on the range of all 600 radio stations, our ratings are up anywhere from 10% to 60%, depending on the station. <\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s as detailed as I\u2019m going to get.  What I mean by that is we could be up 33% on one station, 12% on another, and 60% is the top that we\u2019re up on another.  We\u2019re up 50% in a number of places.  The advertisers who hung in here are going gangbusters, yes.  I mean, that\u2019s the simple truth. The only ones who got hurt are the ones who left.  And that\u2019s its own tragedy because they left under false, trumped up, unreal pretenses.  I don\u2019t want to relive that.  I just wanted to answer the question without getting too specific, because everybody\u2019s asking about it.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s a way of thanking you, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I have been, over the course of the past month&#8230; And this is inside baseball stuff, but you people have been so terrific during this past month. 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