Sponsors are dropping rush.

[bigrebnc1775]

Any minute now the left's boycott is going to work and Rush will be off the air. Any minute.

More likely, Rush will be off the air because his business model will cease to work.

His business model is to make stations pay him to rebroadcast his show. Most syndicated shows don't do that. They do a mixture of syndicated and local advertisements. A few syndicators actually pay to have their show broadcast (Glenn Beck cough, cough).

The very fact that Cumulous is promoting Mike Huckabee's show indicates they are grooming a replacement for Rush.

They only way Rush will be off the air is by choice
He has his own radio network
Rush Radio .

 

[JoeB131]

Any minute now the left's boycott is going to work and Rush will be off the air. Any minute.

More likely, Rush will be off the air because his business model will cease to work.

His business model is to make stations pay him to rebroadcast his show. Most syndicated shows don't do that. They do a mixture of syndicated and local advertisements. A few syndicators actually pay to have their show broadcast (Glenn Beck cough, cough).

The very fact that Cumulous is promoting Mike Huckabee's show indicates they are grooming a replacement for Rush.

They only way Rush will be off the air is by choice
He has his own radio network
Rush Radio .

Okay, but it's business model is that radio stations PAY to air his show.

As opposed to Huckabee and most other syndicated shows, that give away content for free and they split advertising time.

I'm sure Rush will be on the air, but which stations will continue to carry him? WLS in Chicago still does, but I'll bet they won't when his contract runs out.

 

[Katzndogz]

Rush will be off the air when he retires. Then the left will celebrate how they forced him off.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Rush will be off the air when he retires. Then the left will celebrate how they forced him off.

Yep
I can see the head lines now We did it rush running away scared

 

[Foxfyre]

The 15-minute Huckabee Report replaced Paul Harvey on the radio and is run in those 'filler' slots that Paul Harvey used to be run in. The televised Huckabee Show is a permanent feature on Fox News Channel.

The last I read up on this stuff, I think it was in 2008 or 2009 that Drudge reported that Rush had accepted a contract worth $400 million to run through I think 2016 that makes him the highest paid radio personality in entertainment history. And he owns the majority of his own show that is syndicated by Premier Radio Networks which allows him to set the majority of the terms. He personally shares in advertising dollars for advertisers who specifically ask to be aired during his show, most especially those who pay him to do the ad himself. He does not benefit from advertising dollars that the station inserts into his show, but of course he has to allow time for those ads to be aired. Obviously any advertising dollars he receives are pocket change for him and therefore he is probably indifferent to them.

Also the last Zogby poll I saw re media and media personalities, Rush has not lost his rank as the No. 1 most trusted radio personality in a very long time now even though nobody gets much over 10% of the vote in such polls.

But yeah, it is amusing that his critics will surely declare victory in getting rid of him once he retires from an awesome career spanning more than a quarter century.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

He probably doesn't even recall half of those years in broadcasting though the drug haze. What a Republican hero.

yeah, all that jiggling fat, drug smuggling, addiction and booze. He wants to take rights away from gays and women so he'd make a great running mate for Mittens.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

More interesting than why rw's love him is -

Why is the GObP/pubs/bags so afraid to cross him?

 

[Mad Scientist]

Just checking in.

I don't really listen to Rush anymore but I'm interested in how this "boycott" is doing. (Boycott/Thread started on March 3rd)

Has he lost or gained any sponsors as a result? Have his ratings gone up or down?

 

[The Infidel]

Just checking in.

I don't really listen to Rush anymore but I'm interested in how this "boycott" is doing. (Boycott/Thread started on March 3rd)

Has he lost or gained any sponsors as a result? Have his ratings gone up or down?

He is doing better than ever...

 

[The Infidel]

Rush will be off the air when he retires. Then the left will celebrate how they forced him off.

Yep
I can see the head lines now We did it rush running away scared

Isn't that what they did when Beck left Fox News Channel?


Oopsie... he owns his own network now and doing better than ever as well

Hey liberals.... we aren't going anywhere

 

[Foxfyre]

Just checking in.

I don't really listen to Rush anymore but I'm interested in how this "boycott" is doing. (Boycott/Thread started on March 3rd)

Has he lost or gained any sponsors as a result? Have his ratings gone up or down?

He is doing better than ever...

Yup. You can tell by the Rush-haters, mostly leftwing loonies though those also include a few conservatives, because they are ever more shrill, hateful, and spout even more rapid fire lies and misconceptions about Rush and what his show is. When they start stumbling all over their words trying to find some zinger to insult him with, you know Rush is doing just fine.

 

[Ernie S.]

More likely, Rush will be off the air because his business model will cease to work.

His business model is to make stations pay him to rebroadcast his show. Most syndicated shows don't do that. They do a mixture of syndicated and local advertisements. A few syndicators actually pay to have their show broadcast (Glenn Beck cough, cough).

The very fact that Cumulous is promoting Mike Huckabee's show indicates they are grooming a replacement for Rush.

They only way Rush will be off the air is by choice
He has his own radio network
Rush Radio .

Okay, but it's business model is that radio stations PAY to air his show.

As opposed to Huckabee and most other syndicated shows, that give away content for free and they split advertising time.

I'm sure Rush will be on the air, but which stations will continue to carry him? WLS in Chicago still does, but I'll bet they won't when his contract runs out.

Rumor has it that Limbaugh may be replaced by Huckabee at some point, but not because of low ratings. Limbaugh generates more revenue for WLS than any 2 other hosts, but their revenue stream is so puny that they can no longer handle the fees they must pay to keep him on the air.

 

[Foxfyre]

They only way Rush will be off the air is by choice
He has his own radio network
Rush Radio .

Okay, but it's business model is that radio stations PAY to air his show.

As opposed to Huckabee and most other syndicated shows, that give away content for free and they split advertising time.

I'm sure Rush will be on the air, but which stations will continue to carry him? WLS in Chicago still does, but I'll bet they won't when his contract runs out.

Rumor has it that Limbaugh may be replaced by Huckabee at some point, but not because of low ratings. Limbaugh generates more revenue for WLS than any 2 other hosts, but their revenue stream is so puny that they can no longer handle the fees they must pay to keep him on the air.

Isn't WLS a Cumulus station? If so it is probably being eclipsed by larger market stations. And if I remember right, it is also an NBC affiliate and as such may have been more leftwing than a lot of the average news and weather radio audience is these days. I don't know if that is the case, but it would explain why even Rush couldn't pull it out of the weeds.

Our local KKOB station back in the music and traffic report days had slipped to No. 2 status and was headed to be number 3 in our area when they took the advice of a lot of us and put on Rush. Within a few months they had obtained the #1 slot by a large margin, switched to an all news/talk format and have never looked back.

I can't imagine in a market as large as Chicago that there aren't any number of stations most anxious to grab Rush if WLS lets him go.

 

[JoeB131]

Just checking in.

I don't really listen to Rush anymore but I'm interested in how this "boycott" is doing. (Boycott/Thread started on March 3rd)

Has he lost or gained any sponsors as a result? Have his ratings gone up or down?

He is doing better than ever...

Yup. You can tell by the Rush-haters, mostly leftwing loonies though those also include a few conservatives, because they are ever more shrill, hateful, and spout even more rapid fire lies and misconceptions about Rush and what his show is. When they start stumbling all over their words trying to find some zinger to insult him with, you know Rush is doing just fine.

I used to listen to Rush all the time, before I realized he was just a shill for big corporations...

The thing is, the guy's a big phony from day one.

Rants about trial lawyers and how we should throw (poor) drug abusers in prison, until he gets caught abusing drugs, and hires hi-powered lawyers to get him off the hook.

Talks about "Family values", but he's on his fourth sham marriage while taking trips down to the Dominican Republican with Viagra in his napsack.

I'll give him credit for being good at his business, but is he good for the body politic? I think you take a good look at the body politic right now, and say, nope, he's about as good for the body politic as Hillbillly Heroin.

 

[JoeB131]

Okay, but it's business model is that radio stations PAY to air his show.

As opposed to Huckabee and most other syndicated shows, that give away content for free and they split advertising time.

I'm sure Rush will be on the air, but which stations will continue to carry him? WLS in Chicago still does, but I'll bet they won't when his contract runs out.

Rumor has it that Limbaugh may be replaced by Huckabee at some point, but not because of low ratings. Limbaugh generates more revenue for WLS than any 2 other hosts, but their revenue stream is so puny that they can no longer handle the fees they must pay to keep him on the air.

Isn't WLS a Cumulus station? If so it is probably being eclipsed by larger market stations. And if I remember right, it is also an NBC affiliate and as such may have been more leftwing than a lot of the average news and weather radio audience is these days. I don't know if that is the case, but it would explain why even Rush couldn't pull it out of the weeds.

Our local KKOB station back in the music and traffic report days had slipped to No. 2 status and was headed to be number 3 in our area when they took the advice of a lot of us and put on Rush. Within a few months they had obtained the #1 slot by a large margin, switched to an all news/talk format and have never looked back.

I can't imagine in a market as large as Chicago that there aren't any number of stations most anxious to grab Rush if WLS lets him go.

WLS is an ABC affiliate state, was owned by Disney until it has changed ownership a few times, now Cumulus owns them. They haven't changed format for a while, though. It's format has been Talk Radio for some time, and mostly, it's right wing talk radio.

The only "Local" shows are the Morning Show with Don Wade, who is a typical RW knuckle- dragger, and the Roe Cohn show in the afternoon, which is largely non-political. They also have what I jokingly refer to as the "Death Slot" at 9-11 where they've gone though about 10 hosts in the last decade because they put some poor fool in there, and his ratings plummet between the time people turn off Wade and Turn on Limbaugh.

But what Ernie says is probably the case. They know they can get someone just as right wing for a lot less, and not lose as much audience share.

 

[thereisnospoon]

Any minute now the left's boycott is going to work and Rush will be off the air. Any minute.

More likely, Rush will be off the air because his business model will cease to work.

His business model is to make stations pay him to rebroadcast his show. Most syndicated shows don't do that. They do a mixture of syndicated and local advertisements. A few syndicators actually pay to have their show broadcast (Glenn Beck cough, cough).

The very fact that Cumulous is promoting Mike Huckabee's show indicates they are grooming a replacement for Rush.

Don't bet on it. The country is becoming more conservative as time passes.
Not because people are necessarily that way. They are fighting against the tide of radical liberalism. They are sick of high taxes, political correctness, of labels, groups and all the other parts of liberal ideology which has in the past few years has created extreme divisiveness.
The main culprit, Barack Hussein Obama.
Conservatism will never go away. Neither will the media that speaks for us.

 

[thereisnospoon]

More likely, Rush will be off the air because his business model will cease to work.

His business model is to make stations pay him to rebroadcast his show. Most syndicated shows don't do that. They do a mixture of syndicated and local advertisements. A few syndicators actually pay to have their show broadcast (Glenn Beck cough, cough).

The very fact that Cumulous is promoting Mike Huckabee's show indicates they are grooming a replacement for Rush.

They only way Rush will be off the air is by choice
He has his own radio network
Rush Radio .

Okay, but it's business model is that radio stations PAY to air his show.

As opposed to Huckabee and most other syndicated shows, that give away content for free and they split advertising time.

I'm sure Rush will be on the air, but which stations will continue to carry him? WLS in Chicago still does, but I'll bet they won't when his contract runs out.

Yeah...It's called RATINGS.
Ratings equals advertising dollars which pay the costs to air the programs people listen to.

 

[Foxfyre]

They only way Rush will be off the air is by choice
He has his own radio network
Rush Radio .

Okay, but it's business model is that radio stations PAY to air his show.

As opposed to Huckabee and most other syndicated shows, that give away content for free and they split advertising time.

I'm sure Rush will be on the air, but which stations will continue to carry him? WLS in Chicago still does, but I'll bet they won't when his contract runs out.

Rumor has it that Limbaugh may be replaced by Huckabee at some point, but not because of low ratings. Limbaugh generates more revenue for WLS than any 2 other hosts, but their revenue stream is so puny that they can no longer handle the fees they must pay to keep him on the air.

Rush runs a three hour show live, five days a week. Huckabee has a daily 15-minute taped segment that stations can plug in as filler where they need it, and the rest of Huck's time is taken up with his television show and being a Fox commentator. No chance Huck is being groomed to replace Rush. At least not at this time.

 

[JoeB131]

Any minute now the left's boycott is going to work and Rush will be off the air. Any minute.

More likely, Rush will be off the air because his business model will cease to work.

His business model is to make stations pay him to rebroadcast his show. Most syndicated shows don't do that. They do a mixture of syndicated and local advertisements. A few syndicators actually pay to have their show broadcast (Glenn Beck cough, cough).

The very fact that Cumulous is promoting Mike Huckabee's show indicates they are grooming a replacement for Rush.

Don't bet on it. The country is becoming more conservative as time passes.
Not because people are necessarily that way. They are fighting against the tide of radical liberalism. They are sick of high taxes, political correctness, of labels, groups and all the other parts of liberal ideology which has in the past few years has created extreme divisiveness.
The main culprit, Barack Hussein Obama.
Conservatism will never go away. Neither will the media that speaks for us.

Guy, the Republican Party has lost four of the last five popular votes for president. (Yes, sorry, you lost the popular vote in 2000. Learn to deal.) Demagraphics are swinging against you, not for you.

Heck, even I finally walked away from the GOP in disgust. Romney was the last straw for me. Let it be the party of religious crazies, I'm done.

 

[JoeB131]

Okay, but it's business model is that radio stations PAY to air his show.

As opposed to Huckabee and most other syndicated shows, that give away content for free and they split advertising time.

I'm sure Rush will be on the air, but which stations will continue to carry him? WLS in Chicago still does, but I'll bet they won't when his contract runs out.

Rumor has it that Limbaugh may be replaced by Huckabee at some point, but not because of low ratings. Limbaugh generates more revenue for WLS than any 2 other hosts, but their revenue stream is so puny that they can no longer handle the fees they must pay to keep him on the air.

Rush runs a three hour show live, five days a week. Huckabee has a daily 15-minute taped segment that stations can plug in as filler where they need it, and the rest of Huck's time is taken up with his television show and being a Fox commentator. No chance Huck is being groomed to replace Rush. At least not at this time.

Actually, Huckabee has a three hour show that runs the same time as Rush's...

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