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   XPost: alt.fan.j-garofalo   
   From: hello101@notreal.net   
      
   mogulah@hotmail.com (Transition Zone) wrote in   
   news:3f224cda.0312240555.aa55907@posting.google.com:   
      
   > Source: The Drudge Report   
   >   
   > Just released ARBITRON radio ratings show FOX NEWS CHANNEL's Bill   
   > O'Reilly in near-collapse -- just one year after launching a   
   > nationally syndicated rival to Rush Limbaugh.   
   >   
   > For the completed Winter Book [January thru March '03], O'Reilly   
   > trailed Limbaugh in the same time slot by more than 5,000%, in the   
   > extreme.   
   >   
   > Top industry insiders have kept the numbers under wraps -- until now.   
   >   
   > While O'Reilly's nightly TV show has produced consistent wins for FOX   
   > NEWS -- topping all viewers watching current affairs on cable -- the   
   > radio FACTOR has experienced a polar opposite response, raising   
   > questions about O'Reilly's future in the medium.   
   >   
   > ARBITRON registers just 300 listeners in a quarter hour for O'Reilly   
   > Radio in Dayton, Ohio; with 200 people in West Palm Beach, Florida.   
   >   
   > In cities with direct microphone-to-microphone competition, among all   
   > tuners over 12-years old:   
   >   
   > LOS ANGELES   
   >   
   > LIMBAUGH 5.1 SHARE 125,700 [AUDIENCE IN QUARTER HOUR]   
   > O'REILLY 2.2 SHARE 54,100 [AUDIENCE IN QUARTER HOUR]   
   >   
   > ADVANTAGE: LIMBAUGH 132.3%   
   >   
   > CHICAGO   
   >   
   > LIMBAUGH 6.6 101,400   
   > O'REILLY 0.3 004,100   
   >   
   > ADVANTAGE: LIMBAUGH 2,373.2%   
   >   
   > SAN FRAN   
   >   
   > LIMBAUGH 6.2 77,900   
   > O'REILLY 0.7 08,800   
   >   
   > ADVANTAGE: LIMBAUGH 785.2%   
   >   
   > BOSTON   
   >   
   > LIMBAUGH 5.0 40,300   
   > O'REILLY 4.5 36,200   
   >   
   > ADVANTAGE: LIMBAUGH 11.3%   
   >   
   > HOUSTON   
   >   
   > LIMBAUGH 6.8 57,000   
   > O'REILLY 1.3 10,700   
   >   
   > ADVANTAGE: LIMBAUGH 432.7%   
   >   
   > SEATTLE   
   >   
   > LIMBAUGH 6.7 41,000   
   > O'REILLY 0.4 02,500   
   >   
   > ADVANTAGE: LIMBAUGH 1540.0%   
   >   
   > PORTLAND   
   >   
   > LIMBAUGH 7.7 26,800   
   > O'REILLY 3.6 12,600   
   >   
   > ADVANTAGE: LIMBAUGH 112.7%   
   >   
   > PITTSBURGH   
   >   
   > LIMBAUGH 13.4 60,200   
   > O'REILLY 02.1 09,500   
   >   
   > ADVANTAGE: LIMBAUGH 533.7%   
   >   
   > SAN DIEGO   
   >   
   > LIMBAUGH 6.8 32,800   
   > O'REILLY 2.2 10,700   
   >   
   > ADVANTAGE: LIMBAUGH 206.5%   
   >   
   > WEST PALM BEACH   
   >   
   > LIMBAUGH 4.8 10,900   
   > O'REILLY 0.1 00,200   
   >   
   > ADVANTAGE: LIMBAUGH 5,350%   
   >   
   > BUFFALO   
   >   
   > LIMBAUGH 11.0 25,200   
   > O'REILLY 01.0 02,200   
   >   
   > ADVANTAGE: LIMBAUGH 1,045.5%   
   >   
   > PROVIDENCE   
   >   
   > LIMBAUGH 5.0 15,600   
   > O'REILLY 1.4 04,200   
   >   
   > ADVANTAGE: LIMBAUGH 271.4%   
   >   
   > DAYTON   
   >   
   > LIMBAUGH 10.5 17,200   
   > O'REILLY 00.2 00,300   
   >   
   > ADVANTAGE: LIMBAUGH 5,633.3%   
   >   
   > Note: In the nation's top radio market, New York City, O'Reilly goes   
   > opposite FOX NEWS CHANNEL's Sean Hannity. ARBITRON reports O'Reilly   
   > pulls a 2.1 share [19th place in market during 3 to 5 pm on WOR] to   
   > WABC Hannity's 4.7 [4th place]. Among males 18-years old and over,   
   > O'Reilly trails Hannity in Gotham nearly 3 to 1, with a 2.3 share   
   > [18th place] against a 6.1 [First]   
   >   
      
   OK, Rush beats O'Reilly. Big deal.   
      
   How about giving the figures for Randi Rhodes vs Rush in West Palm   
   Beach? Or the figures for Neil Rogers vs Rush in the Miami market?   
      
   Ooops. Rush ain't so popular down here where he is correctly identified   
   as a right wing blow hard who's quite likely to be charged with   
   trafficking in Oxycontin if he ever shows his face in Palm Beach County   
   again.   
      
   The idiotic drug laws in Florida ( possessing more than 12 pills   
   obtained illegally = trafficking ) are going to be his downfall.   
      
   a.s.   
      
   --   
   They offer you many things,   
   I a few.   
   Moonlight on the play of fountains at night   
   With water sparkling a drowsy monotone,   
   Bare-shouldered, smiling women and talk   
   And a cross-play of loves and adulteries   
   And a fear of death and a remembering of regrets.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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