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 DRUDGE REPORT 2002®
  
 
 
 
 
   
 XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX FRIDAY JULY 19, 2002 14:26:37 ET XXXXX
 
 LIMBAUGH TRIUMPHS:  SMASHES O'REILLY IN LOS ANGELES;  TOPS FOX HOST MORE THAN 23 TO ONE IN CHICAGO RADIO MATCH
 
 **Exclusive**
 
 In six weeks of direct microphone-to-microphone competition, Rush Limbaugh scored 23 listeners to every one which tuned into Bill O'Reilly on the radio in Chicago, industry sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT.
 
 Limbaugh on WLS hit a 6.8 share with 110,900 listeners every 15 minutes from 11 am to 1 pm; O'Reilly on WAIT pulled a .3 and  5,400.  Limbaugh's audience in Chicago is 1954% larger than the FOX NEWS HOST, ARBITRON's Spring Book shows.
 
 In direct Los Angeles runs, for six weeks:  Limbaugh pulled a 4.5 share [107,800 listeners every 15 minutes, 12 years-old-plus] on KFI to O'Reilly's KABC 1.8 [43,700].
 
 O'Reilly -- who declared during an interview with Don Imus in May that Limbaugh had "run out of gas"  -- launched in May to heavy press and fanfare from syndicator CBSINFINITYWESTWOOD.
 
 O'Reilly, the nation's top cable news host, also hit radio static in his New York City  debut, microphone-to-microphone opposite fellow FOX Sean Hannity.
 
 For six weeks of direct competition, O'Reilly scored a 2.8 share on WOR [down from Bob Grant's 3.0 average,  previously in the slot] from 3 to 5 pm  -- to Hannity's WABC 4.5.
 
 Developing...
 
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