Actually if you were comparing the two by actual audience size, Oprah has over 21 million viewers per week (5 hours a week).
According to Arbitron’s official numbers (accomplished by different means than television ratings) Lush gets 13,000,000 hits (at least a few minutes or more per hit) per week (15 hrs a week). His audience has been slipping since 2005 when it peeked at 20 million. Of course Premier Radio networks still boasts the 20 million number as if it wee fact and Lush himself places the number at above 30 million so who knows how many actual dedicated listeners he has in a weeks time.
Many who work in the radio industry suggest the actual number of dedicated listeners is closer to around 2 million (which sounds about right), since the secret patented mathematical equation used to measure the size of his audience is the same equation used in the early 60’s when AM radio dominated the airwaves.
Today you would be hard pressed to find people who fit the target audience for Lush, who can find the AM dial on their car radio, but why dwell on the facts, when there are advertisers with money to fraud!
