Rush apologizes, so how come HE doesn't get suspended!!?

[Bug on the rug]

But J&K do for the Whitney Houston crack-ho comment!!? 

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-limbaugh-apology-20120303,0,6854957.story

[DavidEduardo]

But J&K do for the Whitney Houston crack-ho comment!!? 

Limbaugh's show is not on a single, local station like John & Ken. It's a network show, and it would be up to individual stations to "suspend" the show locally.

[Robnoxious]

Rush's "suspension" would be in the form of local stations dropping their syndication contract with E.I.B. and that very well could happen in some markets, however I'd place my bet that less than 5, hell less than 1 will do so. In the end, Rush gets earholes despite what you may think about him and his politics. For me, Rush was entertaining 20+ years ago. I haven't tuned in for decades but apparently many still people do. Scratch that, a dump-truck load of people still do and as such it makes the stations that air his show a lot of money. In the end, that's all these station owning sluts care about.

[borderblaster]

There is not and never has been an "EIB". The show is syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks. Rush owns a good share of the show, so it's not an employer/employee relationship as John and Ken's would be..

[recto101]

There is not and never has been an "EIB". The show is syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks. Rush owns a good share of the show, so it's not an employer/employee relationship as John and Ken's would be..

Isn't 1530 KFBK Sacramento The flagship station for Rush since he had a short stint as a local host there. I know Sleep Train from Sacramento and San Francisco has pulled ads out from the show.

[borderblaster]

The flagship is WABC in New York, though it was the KFBK show that launched him on the national stage.

[DavidEduardo]

There is not and never has been an "EIB". The show is syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks. Rush owns a good share of the show, so it's not an employer/employee relationship as John and Ken's would be..

Before Premiere handled the syndication, there definitely was an EIB. I negotiated carrying the show about 20 years ago in Lake City, FL, and there was no Premiere involved... Just EIB, which handled Rush and Dr Dean Edell (although, IIRC, the doctor show came later than EIB's original founding)

EIB is Limbaugh's operation. It, in turn, syndicates via Premier who does station relations, back room operations, technical, etc.

[borderblaster]

The former company was EFM Media Management (after founder Ed McLaughlin). McLaughlin was a long time ABC exec who took over the syndication of Dr. Dean Edell's show as ABC Talkradio was collapsing. EIB has never existed as a corporate entity.

[Gregg]

Most big entertainers have some sort of corporate entity.  There's no more an EIB Network (Rush uses the word "network") than there was a Dr. Laura Network or a Howard Stern Network, unless you consider all the affilates of a given syndicated program an individual "network."

Rush has always had a company that handles his syndication.  As mentioned above, it was EFM for a while and currently it's Premiere, an arm of Clear Channel.  I'm pretty sure Dr. Dean Edell never considered himself an employee of The EIB Network.  He never said so on the air.  I never saw any company named EIB take out an ad in any of the trades that used to hawk Rush and Edell's programs.  (At one time you were FORCED to run Edell if you ran Limbaugh.)  Perhaps David dealt with executives who specifically negotiated for Rush's line up of stations.  But I don't believe their paychecks ever said "EIB Network."  It was always EFM.

Saying he's on the "EIB Network" is one more bombastic claim made by Rush, as is decorating his studio with EIB mic flags and banners.  There's an EIB Network all right... with its only client being Mr. Limbaugh's ego.



Gregg
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[DavidEduardo]

The former company was EFM Media Management (after founder Ed McLaughlin). McLaughlin was a long time ABC exec who took over the syndication of Dr. Dean Edell's show as ABC Talkradio was collapsing. EIB has never existed as a corporate entity.

And there is no company called Ivory Soap, either. Ivory is a product of Proctor and Gamble. You buy Ivory at the distributor level, you get a P&G invoice.

EFM used EIB as a brand. You signed an EFM contract, you affiliated with the brand and with Rush.

I think that EFM, or something it metamorphosed into, is still Rush's shell that deals with Premiere and affords him personal liability protection for his operation.