Saturday, July 14, 2007

Pill O'Reilly's radio program flops in our nation's capitol.

From the Carpetbagger Report:

We also have the good sense to ignore Bill O’Reilly.

O’Reilly’s daily radio program, “The Radio Factor,” was such a flop here it was cancelled. WJFK-FM, a D.C. station that had carried the program, dropped it recently and replaced it with a sports program. The Washington Post reported:

The popular Fox News Channel TV host never attracted much of a radio following in Washington — in the most recent ratings period, his program had about 1.2 percent of the audience. But then, neither have many other conservatives, whose programs are popular in many cities but barely move the ratings needle in the Washington area, the nation’s eighth-largest radio market.

But wait, it gets better.

Such radio stars of the right as Laura Ingraham, Glenn Beck and Michael Savage at times have literally had no ratings in Washington, as measured by Arbitron. That’s partly because those hosts are carried on WTNT (570 AM), a station that has a weak signal, no local programming and little promotion. Last month, for example, the Clear Channel-owned station attracted an average of just 0.5 percent of the listening audience.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Now the airwaves won't be as polluted.