O'Reilly's radio show dropped in Denver

[FightingIrish]

On Monday, KHOW 630-AM pulled the plug on "The Radio Factor With Bill O'Reilly" because of poor ratings.

A few highlights from the article:

- Franken beat O'Reilly in New York and Seattle.
- Randi Rhodes beat O'Reilly in Portland
- In Washington, D.C., O'Reilly was dropped by WJFK (owned by Infinity, which owns O'Reilly's syndicator, Westwood One. Infinity has been clearing his show on many of their stations.

Denver ratings shares for O'Reilly, as well as his main competitors such as Franken and Limbaugh are at the link:

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[mwebster]

SF Columnist: Blow Up O'Reilly

From SFGate.com (San Francisco Chronicle website):
<blockquote> It's almost too easy. He's too easy a target, really, Bill O'Reilly of the casually toxic Fox News, too bloviated and too silly and too undercooked, and no one whose opinion you truly value or with an IQ higher than their waist size actually watches him with anything resembling intellectual honesty or takes anything he says the slightest bit seriously. You hope. Especially when he, like Pat Robertson ranting about how gays caused Sept. 11 or that Dover, Pa., is now a doomed and godless hell pit, given how the town fired every single one the imbecilic, intelligent design-supporting Repubs from the school board, especially when Billy goes off his nut once again and essentially wishes al Qaeda would attack San Francisco, well, it is up to us to merely look at him like Shiva looks at a sea slug -- i.e., a moment of compassion for his regrettable incarnation -- and then laugh and shake our heads and move the hell on. I mean, what else do you want to do? ... </blockquote>
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[ajhenderson]

> On Monday, KHOW 630-AM pulled the plug on "The Radio Factor
> With Bill O'Reilly" because of poor ratings.
>
> A few highlights from the article:
>
> - Franken beat O'Reilly in New York and Seattle.
> - Randi Rhodes beat O'Reilly in Portland
> - In Washington, D.C., O'Reilly was dropped by WJFK (owned
> by Infinity, which owns O'Reilly's syndicator, Westwood One.
> Infinity has been clearing his show on many of their
> stations.
>
> Denver ratings shares for O'Reilly, as well as his main
> competitors such as Franken and Limbaugh are at the link:

This has been a story for awhile; Westwood One FINALLY let KNOW dump O'Reilly and put Beck on.

The Seattle comparison isn't fair. Franken was moved to afternoon drive, whereas O'Reilly is on in the early evening (on a falling station nonetheless) when no one listens. Hard to compare. Not sure O'Reilly is offed at WJFK yet; Don and Mike were bitching about him and Severin recently.