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Date Posted: 16:19:00 03/24/03 Mon
Author: Scott Tilde
Subject: WPHT Ratings Up By 24% - 65% DueTo War In Sampling Last Week

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"Early results of Arbitron's Portable People Meter showed impending war pumping up ratings at Talk WPHT on MARCH 17, with exceptional boosts in ratings for afternooner Michael Smerconish (up 65% last Monday as opposed to an average Monday) and midday Premiere (Syndication) hosts Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. Listening was up overall in every hour 5a-10p, with a 24% jump 9a-4p."

Hmmm. I'd love to know what the morning numbers look like. And of course the O'Reilly rerun is DOA. Nice to see 1210 put Dom on Friday night in the O'Reilly slot. They ought to move Rollye up and can O'Reilly until the war situation settles down.

And the rally couldn't have hurt Beck, even if those of us who couldn't make it didn't get to hear it until Friday.

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[> WPHT -- Pat Donnelly, 17:03:49 03/24/03 Mon

PHT is doing a great job during the war, but don't you think it might be better listening if there was at least one voice on that station that did not tow the party line? Why can't someone on that station take issue with Bush and give us an intellectual challenge? And why are they playing Hannity reruns on Sunday night talking about things several days old when he is on live on Fox at the same time dishing us the latest. Hello..someone should wake up there.


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[> [> Pat: Halle-freakin-lujah! -- Rockford, 17:47:36 03/24/03 Mon

Particularly disappointing to me are the recent shows by the previously sane Dom Giordano. He recently had excellent interviews with Ed Asner and Mike Farrell in which everyone was respectful to everyone elses viewpoint, and legitimate issues were discussed. Dom properly cut off callers who just wanted to engage in silly name calling, and a genuinely interesting debate was had. Now, weeks later, both Asner and Farrell are in Dom's "field of 64 anti-war blowhards." So much for respectful disagreement.

By the way, anyone else see the soaking, dripping irony in a talk radio host referring to others as "blowhards"? Oh, sweet irony! Thy name is Dom!


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[> [> [> Well, in defense of Dom, Mike Farrell is polite and well-spoken, but like ~all~ anti-war protesters I've heard, he has ~no~ solutions to the problem. Yet he's still out there insisting he's right. Based on what? That's the textbook definition of a blowhard. (Did I miss the part where he described a workable solution?) -- Scott Tilde, 00:25:24 03/25/03 Tue


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[> [> [> [> I don't think that anything in that post really does much to defend Dom's hypocrisy on this. Speaking of which, last night he decried that war protesters were being "disrespectful to the president". From a talk radio host, THAT is truly priceless. -- Rockford, 10:36:24 03/25/03 Tue


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[> Well Actually -- Billy, 10:34:54 03/25/03 Tue

The trends show that of the 24 hours in the broadcast day, 21 of those experienced higher numbers...anybody want to guess which 3 hours stayed flat...flat...flat?


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