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Before leaving the air on Friday, syndicated host, Rush Limbaugh, admitted to his audience that he was addicted to pain-killers. He told his audience they were initially prescribed legally to treat post-surgical pain for spinal surgery. Limbaugh said had been addicted to several drugs for five years.
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With more than 20 million listeners every week, Rush Limbaugh is the most listened to and highest-rated talk show host in America. Each day Rush not only gives the news, but tells the listeners what to thinkabout it. You may not always agree with him, but it's hard not to stay tuned.
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LOS ANGELES, July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- America's Anchorman, Rush Limbaugh, wins the ratings game -- again -- as he approaches his 18th anniversary this August in national syndication. According to the Arbitron Spring 2005 ratings survey for Detroit, The Rush Limbaugh Show, heard Monday through Friday on WJR-AM from noon - 3 p.m. is the #1 nationally syndicated talk radio show in the market. Mr. Limbaugh scored, among Persons 12+, an 8.1 share with an average quarter-hour audience of 70,000 listeners. Among Adults 25-54, he has a 5.8 share with an average quarter-hour audience of 29,600 listeners. Al Franken, who airs at the same time on WDTW-AM in Detroit, has a Persons 12+ share of 0.5 with an average quarter-hour audience of 4,600 listeners. With Adults 25-54, he has a 0.6 share with an average quarter-hour audience of 3,200 listeners.
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On WOCA NewsTalk 1370, Ocala, Rush Limbaugh hosts his program from 12:00 Noon to 3:00 PM. It is the highest-rated national radio talk show, and the most-listened-to program in WOCA's NewsTalk lineup. WOCA was among the first 50 stations who began airing Limbaugh in August of 1988. The program is now carried by more than 650 stations and is heard by nearly 25 million people weekly.
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Rush Limbaugh is the outspoken, ultra-conservative, and ultra-popular radio host of The Rush Limbaugh Show. Limbaugh got his start in radio while still in high school. In the 1980s he landed in Sacramento, California and perfected the politically-oriented sarcasm that earned him national syndication. Limbaugh gained particular fame as a staunch opponent of president Bill Clinton; by 1995, when Newt Gingrich led a Republican majority into the House of Representatives, Limbaugh was one of the most popular radio hosts in the U.S., with a fervent audience of "dittoheads," fans who parroted his conservative views. In July of 2001 Limbaugh signed a contract extension, reportedly worth $285 million, to keep him on the air through 2009. Later that year Limbaugh announced that he was almost completely deaf, saying he had first experienced hearing loss only four months previously.
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Rush Limbaugh is the most popular radio talk show host in America. He blasted onto the national scene in 1988, and within just a few years his three-hour daily broadcast was blanketing America. By 1993 he was heard on more than 650 radio stations and was listened to by more than 20 million people. His 1992 book The Way Things Ought to Be was on the New York Times bestseller list for several months and was the fastest-selling hardcover non-fiction book in history to that time. His second book did almost as well. His monthly newsletter has more than 370,000 subscribers.
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