From Bad To Worse: Limbaugh's California Ratings Debacle Deepens
The syndicated talker, who for two decades has been universally regarded as the most popular and powerful AM talker in the country, continues to wallow in obscurity in the nation's second largest radio market. According to recently released
ratings from Nielsen Audio, Limbaugh's California flagship station, KEIB, now ranks 39th in the Los Angeles market, attracting an anemic .5 ratings share. (A ratings share
represents the percent of those listening to radio in the market who are tuned into a particular station.)
The tumble to 39
th place represents
yet another downward lurch -- in March the station logged in at 37th place. Note that there are a total of 45 rated stations in the Los Angeles market, which means Limbaugh's KEIB station (the call letters mirror Limbaugh's motto, "Excellence in Broadcasting") has nearly reached the ratings basement.
And yes, Limbaugh's syndicator, Clear Channel-owned Premier Networks,
pays the talker $50 million a year.
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Rush Limbaugh was awarded the “Author of the Year” from the Children's Choice Book Awards, and declared, “It was a big deal.”
No, it’s not. The award is not fake. It’s the notion that it represents any kind of merit that’s phony.
The Children's Choice Book Award is given to the person who wins the most online votes on the award's website, and according to the Boston Herald's blog The Edge, the folks behind the award have no way of verifying that only children voted, nor do they have a mechanism in place that prevents people from voting multiple, multiple, multiple, multiple times. I'm not sure what's sadder: the fact that Rush Limbaugh won a children's literature award, or the fact that he probably won it by prompting his fans to vote for him. Just picture it: Rush's butt-boys stood there hitting refresh over and over again, freedom-boners rising against their patriot zippers as they Did Literally The Least They Could Possibly Do for their country.
The nominations are based on book sales, and the award is given to the book that receives the most votes online with no way to restrict who votes or how often, and nothing about the award represents merit.
These scam awards were created by the Children’s Book Council (CBC), a trade association of children’s book publishers who seek to promote literacy but especially like to sell more books.
The irony here is that even though this scam award is just a popularity contest, three of Rush’s fellow nominees in the category (Rick Riordan, Veronica Roth, and Jeff Kinney) actually
beat out Rush by a wide margin in 2013 sales according to Nielsen Bookscan, which tracks 80% of all book sales (and Kinney also beat Rush in sales on Amazon). So Rush didn’t have the most book sales.
The Bestselling Books of 2013