Station Owners: Limbaugh Crossed the Boundary

[listener-in]

Any station dumb enough to drop Rush will ultimately go out of business....just sayin'

And good riddance too!

[del_griffith]

I'd be surprised to see Rush go from the big Cumulus sticks.  Even to clear on their own product.  But it could happen.

And WTN in Nashville does better than WLAC that carries Rush, Sean and Glenn in the beauty pageant.   Probably demographically too.  WTN has a 5.5 share total audience share WLAC has a 2.4. 

So beating Rush can happen. 

[borderblaster]

Blowtorch as 1510 is in much of the country, in the Nashville metro area the signal sucks. Surprised with WTN doing so much better CC doesn't put WLAC on an FM if one is available

[MC]

"shill" is a better word than "sl*t"  which does not have as much of a personal element to it...so if Ed said: "Ingram is a shill for the righties" it would have been OK....  or if Limbaugh said Fluke was "shilling for the liberal agenda"  it would have been OK. 

Creative name calling that does not cross the line is important.  "A perfectly lubricated weathervane"  was something Huntsman came up with during the campaign...now that is creative name calling.   (I'm not being political, just analytical.)

A name with a sense of humor works better than something nasty.  People are paid big money to be on the air, so using the right words is important. 

[SHIFTY 1]

Amazing how radio personalities are the controversy and "newsmakers" in this all access and wired society. Medium is sustainable through all the other entertainment and electronic options

[TalkShowGuy1979]

  Fortunately,  I never had to decide what Talker goes as I own a music radio station network located in Southern New Jersey and we avoid all that.

    With that said, would like to hear how Limbaugh's rant is affecting your station.  Also, if you are replacing his program as a fair number of owners have already announced they will do,  what will replace the program?  Will it be local talk which is always king or a kinder, gentler, open-minded conservative like Jerry Doyle?   joshzz

Name one.

[TalkShowGuy1979]

What stations have announced that they are dropping the show?

"Which" stations.

ADVERTISER cancellations was LAST week's headline (though likely to continue); THIS week, AFFILIATE cancellations would accelerate the tailspin.

Watch Cumulus, whose soon-to-debut Huckabee show goes head-2-head and will throw A PILE of do-re-mi to The Bottom Line.  And losing Cumulus sticks like WABC, WMAL, WLS, WJR, WBAP, et al would sting.

There's blood in the water.

Holland you have been talking about blood in the water for years. Eventually Rush will go and you can claim victory. Holland will go away one day too. Blood is in the water.

Here is a fact, IF Cumulus drops Rush on any stations it is FOR Huckabee and not because of Rush. If they drop him company wide then, and only then, it will be because of these comments.

[HotTalker]

The smell of sour grapes in any thread about Rush is overpowering. I don't know what the guy ever did to the people who work in radio, but they really are a bunch of children when the topic of Rush Limbaugh comes up.

[borderblaster]

If one certain local Cumulus station cancels Rush for Huckabee, Rush is immediately on a 100kW crosstown flamethrower where he once was (LMA-Citadel bankruptcy issue)compared to their 6kW.

I said at the outset this controversy would be an excuse, but not the reason.

[Goat Rodeo Cowboy]

The smell of sour grapes in any thread about Rush is overpowering. I don't know what the guy ever did to the people who work in radio, but they really are a bunch of children when the topic of Rush Limbaugh comes up.

You make it sound like the discussion of Rush and the "carping" about rush is ONLY by "the people who work in radio."

Rush has a lot of fans who have NEVER worked in radio.  Rush is despised by a lot of people who have NEVER worked in radio.

I arranged my day so I could hear for myself how Rush would go about digging himself out of the hole today.  His on air comments and words of apology to and about Ms. Fluke were well handled.  He demonstrated what an amateur he is when he did not even give her the courtesy of learning how to properly pronounce her last name.  He even got into a sophmoric exercise of making up affected French sounding versions of her name.

But then he did something that may or make not make the news this evening as the journalists digest what he said, and as the MSNBC types digest the fruit of his labor today.  In an effort to demonstrate his extreme repentance,  he announced that HE had made the error of stooping down to the level of liberals.  In a back-handed way I heard him saying:  "All liberals are political sluts and whores and I made the mistake of using their methodology, and for doing that I am truly sorry."