How many listeners ed schultz

He considered himself a liberal, although he remained opposed to abortion rights. At its peak, the show had more than 3 million listeners a week on more than stations. Schultz became a consistent critic of the administration of George W. Eastern time slot. He brought a loosely scripted, free-flowing style to the cable network and was a resounding success in his early years.

He scored higher ratings than his opposite number at CNN, Anderson Cooper, yet he was far behind his conservative competitors on Fox News. Edward Andrew Schultz was born Jan. His father was an aeronautical engineer, his mother a high school English teacher. He had tryouts with the Oakland Raiders and New York Jets, then briefly played pro football in Canada before beginning his broadcasting career in His marriage to Maureen Zimmerman ended in divorce. Survivors include his wife of 20 years, the former Wendy Noack, of Washington and Detroit Lakes, Minn; a son from his first marriage, Dave Schultz of Fargo; and five stepchildren.

Schultz never claimed to be a Washington insider or an authority on politics. Instead he maintained that he followed the same formula as Limbaugh and other talk show practitioners. It just has serious errors. Right now, for instance, there's something on Wikipedia on me, Ed Schultz, that says I'm against gay marriage. I'm not. Never have been. Who the hell put that up there? What am I going to spend all day correcting that stuff?

I don't care who anyone marries. Technology is changing the media so fast, terrestrial radio is almost obsolete. If you want to expand your brand, you have to be multiplatform. I think talk radio is a conservative industry because of the ownership.

There are a lot of major radio companies that haven't even tried progressive talk or liberal talk because they're owned and operated by conservatives. Citadel doesn't do liberal talk radio.

Bonneville doesn't do liberal talk radio. The Salem Radio Network , same thing. Of course, ownership does have its privileges. If Ed Schultz owned radio stations, I can guarantee you Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity or any other right-wing hack job would not be on my stations.

But until liberals go out and buy signals, you're not going to get a lot of liberal talk radio. And I don't buy that there are more conservative listeners than liberal listeners. A lot of the liberal listeners are listening to NPR. That's where most of the liberal audience is and that's who we, the commercial liberal format, have to peel away listeners from. This industry is ideologically-driven. That's the culture of it. The hosts out there that think they can strike a chord with the middle of the road people have it all wrong.

What's the middle of the road position on universal health care? What's the middle of the road position on having the wealthy pay taxes? What's the middle of the road position on fighting foreign wars? Liberal radio has identified absolutes. If you're true to your conviction, I think you can run a business in this industry.

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