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Typical.. #tcot

Today's HuffPo headline says "Thousands" expected to attend Glenn Beck's rally today.  A second article suggests that the rally will test Beck's strength as a "Conservative lightning rod".  What's the old saying?  A picture is worth a thousand words?

More like several hundred thousand people.  Or more.

Funny thing, the Washington Post somehow seemed to paint a somewhat different picture of the event.

Feel free to continue to marginalize, ignore, and mock the movement.  We'll have the last laugh.

Hey Mr. President, is $5 million in 2009 "enough"?

Stop telling me how much I can earn, when you make considerably more than most of the people in this Country.

 

Classy folks you employ there, MSNBC..

Schultz wants to "rip out Cheney's heart, kick it around, and stuff it back in."  He wants Cheney to "shoot someone in the face again".  Class, pure class.

 

Oregon Liberals lie, Conservatives much more truthful..

At least when it comes to radio listening and reportage:

A new system of determining radio station ratings is now in place and it has been devastating to liberal talk radio. First, understand that radio ratings are based on a combination of how many listeners a station has and how long they listen. The old system of determining ratings was based on a diary system. A statistical sample of radio listeners was given a diary and asked to write down what stations they listened to and for how long. The new system is electronic. Listeners now receive an electronic gadget that a listener carries. The gadget receives a sub carrier signal broadcast by all radio stations and registers exactly what station is listened to and for how long. No longer can a loyal, enthused listener claim they listen to their favorite radio station 25 hours a day and thus corrupt the ratings. This new system began in Portland this past October. Arbitron ratings are based on 4 three month intervals (winter, spring, summer, and fall ratings periods).

The most recent ratings (October-November-December)from the fall ratings book have recently been released. It’s the first time the electronic devices did the measuring. Because of seasonal differences in listening habits, most radio time buyers, like myself, compare apples to apples. If I want to know how a radio station’s audience numbers are fluctuating, I’ll compare the fall 2008 ratings to the fall 2009 ratings.

What happened to KPOJ? These numbers represent the overall 12 years of age and older total audience share combining how many listeners with how long they listen. It’s called the average quarter hour share (AQH).

Fall 2008 = 3.5
Fall 2009 = 0.9

This means that under the old diary system where a listener wrote down what they claimed to listen to and how long, KPOJ was thought to have 3.5% of the audience listening to them. But when the electronic gadget registered what was actually listened to and for how long, KPOJ’s rating plummeted.
KPOJ’s programming essentially stayed the same during the past year. The only thing that was different was the reporting system. It very clearly shows that KPOJ listeners were wildly overstating the amount of hours they listened. They were lying.

As a point of reference, you may think a 3% share of the audience is very small. It’s not. Portland is the 23rd largest radio market in the United States. There are many radio stations in Portland. Historically, a station could be top rated with as little as 6% of the audience.

What about the conservative talk stations listeners? Don’t they lie too? The numbers say no.




It’s interesting to note that 2 of the 3 conservative talk stations actually increased their ratings under the new system. Apparently, conservative news talk listeners didn’t lie under the old system of writing down what stations they listened to and for how long.

 

It's interesting to note that in uber-liberal Oregon, Leftie talk-radio can't even score a full 1.0 point.  As I recall, Air America in NYC had worse ratings than when the station had previously run a 24/7 Caribbean music format.  If you can't sell Liberal talk radio in Oregon and NYC, how can it make it anywhere?

 

Oh that's right, it can't.

Buh bye..

Air America goes silent.  Until the Franken-led bailout, right?  Michelle Malkin has a good rundown of their rocky financial history.

Strange, isn't it?  In a time where radio ad revenues are down, Rush, Beck, Hannity, Ingraham and others still find a way to not only make it, but expand their base and add stations.

I wonder why?

Imagine if you will..

If Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, or any other prominent voice on the Right suggested cheating to help get Scott Brown elected.  Would there be any outrage?  Would there be calls for whatever media outlets that employ then to fire them?  Would their words be interpreted as a call to action for their listers to go try and cheat?  I think we all know the answer.  Now watch the video, and ask yourself what the blowback would be if the same words were uttered by any of the people mentioned before.

Please retweet and forward this post to your friends.  Show them how the Democrats feel about perverting our election system, if it furthers their views.

Radio ratings go high-tech..

Cool story in today's Denver Post on a wearable device that "listens" to the radio stations around you: in the car, the dentist's office, Home Depot, etc.  It provides much more data than the old handwritten journals that people recorded in.

It's caused quite a stir in Denver, as long-time frontrunner KOA actually wound up in 10th place.

"The new device is kind of agnostic," according to Lee Larsen, president and market manager for Clear Channel Denver. "It records what you actually do." In the old days, if you wrote in your diary that you listened to KBCO all day, for instance, the new PPMs know that, in truth, you flipped around, checking other stations during commercials or during an unfavorite song.

"We're drowning in data here," Larsen said.

From now on, expect KOSI to rise well above the competition in the PPMs.

Amy Griesheimer, manager of Entercom's Denver stations including KOSI, contends folks are listening to KOSI well beyond waiting rooms and elevators. "Who's to say you're not listening in the dentist's office?" She notes the station ranked No. 1 in the market "in at least 12 different demos. We're getting credit for what we weren't getting credit for before."

"This is a high point, but we were doing great before," she said.

"It makes perfect sense that KOSI's effective Christmas brand rocketed to No. 1 during the last rating period," said longtime industry analyst Chuck Lontine of Marconi Ventures. "Especially in this economy, I am certain that more people tuned into a trusted brand like KOSI for a holiday lift. It also comes as no surprise that KOA would drop during the same period. As the Broncos began to tumble, I suspect there was a loss of listeners to KOA." He also suggests the audience may be showing "political/talk radio burnout."

Insiders respect the people meter as an honest measurement technology. It's "a device that is as private as the radio itself," Lontine said. "It's no wonder that it would expose some guilty-pleasure listening habits," giving a boost to classic pop Jack-FM and smooth jazz KKHI.

Likewise, industry consultant Marc Hand said the old diary system turned up "a mix of what people thought they should be listening to" and failed memory, while the people meters offer "a much more accurate read." Nationally, every market has yielded different trends, but "adult contemporary" or soft rock generally has been a winner.

Not dead yet..

Rush is fine, and holds a presser:

 

Classy..

I'd say I was surprised, but I'd be lying.