Past Top Programs in The United States
From 1933 to 1935, Maxwell House Show Boat was the top radio show in the United States. In 1948 Walter Winchell had the top rated radio show when he surpassed The Fred Allen Show and The Jack Benny Program.
A. C. Nielsen rated the top ten radio shows in 1955:
- Jack Benny Program (CBS)
- Amos 'n' Andy (CBS)
- People Are Funny (NBC)
- Our Miss Brooks (CBS)
- Lux Radio Theater (NBC)
- My Little Margie (CBS)
- Dragnet (NBC)
- FBI in Peace and War (CBS)
- Bergen and McCarthy (CBS)
- Groucho Marx's You Bet Your Life (NBC)
Before moving to satellite radio in 2006, The Howard Stern Show peaked at 20 million listeners on syndicated terrestrial radio. At the time of both shows' departure from Talk Radio Network in fall 2012, The Savage Nation was estimated to have an audience of 9 million listeners and The Laura Ingraham Show was estimated at 6 million listeners. The later revivals of both of those shows were much smaller, each only registering an estimated 3 million listeners as of April 2013. Prior to his retirement, Neal Boortz registered approximately 5.75 million listeners. The public radio series Car Talk with Click and Clack had approximately 4 million listeners immediately prior to ending its original run, ranking it among the most-listened-to weekend radio programs in the United States.
Read more about this topic: List Of Most-listened-to Radio Programs
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