List: Top 100 Streaming Talk Shows

A list of the “Top 100 Talk Shows of 2012″ just released by Talk Stream Live – which ranks the nation’s leading streaming talk shows – placed Rush Limbaugh at the top, with Michael Savage No. 2 and Glenn Beck No. 3.

Laura Ingraham came in fourth, followed by Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, Tammy Bruce, Dennis Miller, Bill Bennett and George Noory rounding out the top 10.

Most surprising were the strong performances of Savage and Ingraham, wnd.com notes both were at least temporarily off the air following contractual disputes with their syndicators and moved to new providers of their shows to stations around the country.

Other rankings, especially where the online audience differs from the on-air “Heavy Hundred” ranking produced by Talkers magazine, show a stark difference between what audiences choose online and what they’re given on the radio.

For example, Talkers magazine ranks Ed Schultz No. 4, with over 3 million in his radio audience, but Talk Stream Live ranks the progressive talker’s online audience at No. 61.

Talk Stream Live notes its rankings, based on a sample of 2.75 million listener sessions, “tracks talk radio show metrics gathered on the Internet and collected through our cloud based server via TalkStreamLive.com’s website, gadgets, iPhone app and ‘click2listen’ links on social networks. They only rank the talk show hosts that are listed at TalkStreamLive.com. The TSL Top 100 report includes the big personalities talk show fans would expect as well as some new media rising stars. The conclusions are our own and not guaranteed to be accurate.”

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