Twin Cities turning deaf ear to political talk radio shows

[GAspnes]

Twin Cities listeners have been tuning out political talk radio.

Locally, conservative-talk icon Rush Limbaugh's show has lost 43 percent of its audience among 25- to 54-year-olds in the past year. Sean Hannity's show is down a whopping 63 percent. The shift is serious enough that "we're weighing where these shows fit for us in the future," according to Todd Fisher, general manager at KSTP (1500 AM), which carries both syndicated programs.

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The ratings shift hasn't affected partisan radio stations such as WWTC (1280 AM), known as the Patriot, or KTNF (950 AM), home to Air America programming, including Al Franken's weekday show. Both have maintained relatively stable, if small, audience shares of about 1 to 1.5 percent.

Franken is an exception, however. Locally, the Minnesota native has increased his audience share to 2.4 percent of listeners ages 25 to 54, compared with 1.3 last year.

So there's hope after all.

Full story at http://startribune.com/stories/462/5569938.html

[Lydia Leftcoast]

1. So in other words, the lefties are holding steady or growing, as are

the nuttiest of the wingnuts, but the borderline wingnuts are become disenchanted.

:-)

[Eric J in MN]

2. You beat me.

I was about to post this from SpeakSpeak News:

Are Minnesotans getting tired of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity?

In the Twin Cities:

Conservative-talk icon Rush Limbaugh's show has lost 43 percent of its audience among 25- to 54-year-olds in the past year. Sean Hannity's show is down a whopping 63 percent. The shift is serious enough that "we're weighing where these shows fit for us in the future," according to Todd Fisher, general manager at KSTP (1500 AM), which carries both syndicated programs.

...The ratings shift hasn't affected partisan radio stations such as WWTC (1280 AM), known as the Patriot, or KTNF (950 AM), home to Air America programming, including Al Franken's weekday show. Both have maintained relatively stable, if small, audience shares of about 1 to 1.5 percent.

Franken is an exception, however. Locally, the Minnesota native has increased his audience share to 2.4 percent of listeners ages 25 to 54, compared with 1.3 last year.

"The Patriot" is a rightwing radio station with hosts including Laura Ingraham and Michael Savage.

"Air America Minnesota" is a progressive radio station, with hosts including Al Franken and Ed Schultz.

[Eric J in MN]

3. You chose the same 3 paragraphs to excerpt as I did.

For SpeakSpeak News.

http://www.speakspeak.org/speak-blog/index.php?p=1050

[GAspnes]

4. Great minds and all that

And usually, I scan DU before the news...

[MnFats]

5. Limbaugh loses almost half; hannity almost TWO THIRDS!!!

station management is considering whether they fit....

Minnesota should be the start of a rollback of these lying creeps' empires.....this news made my day....

it should get kicked, in my humble opinon...