Rush Limbaugh Rules Los Angeles and Chicago

Rush Limbaugh Rules Los Angeles and Chicago

- Numbers Don't Lie -

LOS ANGELES, July 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Rush Limbaugh, the first national radio host to interview Vice President Dick Cheney and former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani today about President George W. Bush's nominee to the Supreme Court, also was first today in the Arbitron Spring 2005 ratings survey for Los Angeles and Chicago. The Rush Limbaugh Show, heard Monday through Friday on KFI-AM in Los Angeles from 9 a.m. - noon scored, among Persons 12+, a 4.4 share with 100,100 listeners tuning in, on average, every quarter hour. Among Adults 25-54, he has a 2.5 share with 35,900 of them tuning in, on average, every quarter hour. Al Franken, who airs at the same time on KTLK-AM in Los Angeles, has a share of 1.2 with 28,400 listeners Persons 12+ tuning in, on average, every quarter hour. With Adults 25-54, he has a 0.8 share with a listening audience of 11,900, on average, every quarter hour. Mr. Limbaugh's audience of Persons 12+ is three and a half times the size of Mr. Franken's audience. Among Adults 25-54, Mr. Limbaugh more than triples Mr. Franken's audience.

In addition to Mr. Limbaugh and Mr. Franken, below are numbers for other talkers who don't run head to head with Mr. Limbaugh:

Host Share Avg. Quarter Rank (all AM/FM (Persons 12+) Hour programming- (Persons 12+) persons 12+) Rush Limbaugh 4.4 100,100 5 Al Franken 1.2 28,400 27 Bill O'Reilly 2.3 54,900 14 Ed Shultz 0.9 20,500 34

Host Share Avg. Quarter Rank (all AM/FM (Adults 25-54) Hour programming- (Adults 25-54) adults 25-54) Rush Limbaugh 2.5 35,900 14 Al Franken 0.8 11,900 31 Bill O'Reilly 0.9 13,100 29 Ed Shultz 0.6 9,000 42

In Chicago, The Rush Limbaugh Show is heard Monday through Friday on WLS-AM in Chicago from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and scored a 4.9 share with 78,200 listeners tuning in, on average, every quarter hour, for Persons 12+. Among Adults 25-54, he holds a 3.4 share with 31,700 listeners tuning in, on average, every quarter hour. Mr. Limbaugh has no competition in this market.

Known as the media pundit who reshaped the political landscape with his entertaining and informative brand of conservatism, Mr. Limbaugh is also widely credited with resuscitating AM radio by many industry experts.

Source: Premiere Radio Networks

CONTACT: Amir Forester of Premiere Radio Networks, +1-818-461-5404

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