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WLS (Chicago) ready to drop Rush Limbaugh
robertfeder.com ^ | 3/5/15 | Robert Feder

Posted on 03/05/2015 4:44:56 AM PST by raccoonradio

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To: raccoonradio

The ongoing, sustained, Leftist war on his advertisers is taking its toll. That 60 Minutes hit piece on Lumber Liquidators did not occur in a vacuum.


81 posted on 03/05/2015 6:33:42 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: mosesdapoet; All

RE my previous post 78 because of the reception report which I think is significant I should have marked it all


82 posted on 03/05/2015 6:34:05 AM PST by mosesdapoet (Some of my best rebuttals are in FR's along with meaningless venting no one reads.)
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To: raccoonradio
This maybe not about El-Rusho so much as it is a millennial sea change in listening an communication habits.

Gone are portable AM/FM radios from back when Rush got started to now all media on your phone. He is competing with Spotify Radio, Kick, Snapchat, Facebook, Tweets and he hasn't figured out how to reach 20 somethings, the age I found him as I needed AM radio for traffic reports and My Sharona for the millionth time on FM had me begging for a traffic report....

83 posted on 03/05/2015 6:34:05 AM PST by taildragger (It's Cruz, Pence, or Walker. Anything else is a Yugo with Racing Stripes....)
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To: Biggirl

so far......I don’t see a “hmmmm” factor regarding Levin.


84 posted on 03/05/2015 6:47:04 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: Stosh
LS appears to be getting desperate, and if they drop Rush, I wouldn’t be surprised to see them go on life support.

Perhaps Sears and/or Roebuck will buy them back.

(World's Largest Store)
85 posted on 03/05/2015 6:47:56 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: C. Edmund Wright

A similar situation took place on Houston radio several years ago. One station dropped Rush and he was on another before the ink dried on the contracts.


86 posted on 03/05/2015 6:50:54 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: oh8eleven
WTF else is there? Point is, he does nothing but talk ... it's time to put his money where his mouth has been. Even a commie @ss like Al Franken got off his butt and ran for office.

Wow, what an odd comment on so many levels. First, it's really sad that phony conservatives like yourself think that the only way to serve the Republic is by running for office. You have an inner liberal perhaps you don't even recognize, but with that sentiment, that liberal is in you somewhere. Period. Undeniable, so don't deny it.

Certain people are doing FAR MORE to help our cause than any office holders can possibly do. Rush is one of those. There are a few others too. How do you not recognize that? I do not understand how you can be conservative and think that way.

And seems you are a tad analytically challenged...Franken, a failed actor and talk host versus the most successful talk radio personality ever? Dang dude, that's very weak. It's just absurd actually.

And then there is this: you don't know a damned thing about where he puts his money - so for you to assume that your shallow understanding is comprehensive is startlingly arrogant, and misplaced.

87 posted on 03/05/2015 6:52:02 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: Stosh
...it now looks like they’re trying their best to follow WCFL to the radio graveyard.

And aren't we all...aren't we all...?

(Chicago Federation of Labor)
88 posted on 03/05/2015 6:53:40 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: Biggirl

I don’t think Steyn will sell every day. Think baseball....Steyn is a relief pitcher, not a starter. Both are important, but they are different.

He might just be the best one, but his schtick will wear thin on an everyday basis IMO.

But he’s awesome to listen to from time to time.


89 posted on 03/05/2015 6:55:09 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: Resettozero; bigdaddy45

Hate to have to burst your Sugar Pops, but bd is right as rain. I too learned that the hard way. The world begins and ends with this Quarter.


90 posted on 03/05/2015 6:55:18 AM PST by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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To: raccoonradio; Eric in the Ozarks
Yes Lujack did pass on

Don't matter none. They still run Wolfman Jack and he's been dead for 20 years!

91 posted on 03/05/2015 6:55:30 AM PST by uglybiker (nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
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To: X-spurt
The world begins and ends with this Quarter.

Just imagine the future.

(My comment was on his sour tone, not his business acumen.)
92 posted on 03/05/2015 6:58:05 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: EnigmaticAnomaly

Yes, i’m sure the “higher ups” want to switch out Rush for someone who will make them LESS money.


93 posted on 03/05/2015 6:58:46 AM PST by bigdaddy45
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To: C. Edmund Wright
He’ll have another Chicago affiliate within 5 minutes.

Probably

94 posted on 03/05/2015 6:59:19 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: School of Rational Thought
I think that it's more a pre-Katherine thing. Ever since he got married Rush has been literally "phoning it in". Before he got married he seldom took a call unless it was Open Lines Friday, and on that day he usually only got to four or five calls. Since Katherine arrived, he spends a lot more time trying to sell tea and his books between "getting back to your calls".

It's surly a lot easier to prep for a pack of phone calls than it is to take apart what's going on around the world, and it seems as though Rush is more into spending his prep time with his wife. He's got his contract and he probably is pretty much free to do his show however he wants.

95 posted on 03/05/2015 7:00:03 AM PST by skimbell
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To: Arthur McGowan

I dont get why he doesn’t write books anymore.

Outside of the ones for children, he has written a serious political book since “See, I told You So”, and that was like twenty-something years ago!


96 posted on 03/05/2015 7:02:04 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: uglybiker
Wolfman Jack is timeless.
I remember when he was broadcasting from a 500,000 watt station in Mexico.
97 posted on 03/05/2015 7:04:07 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks ("If he were working for the other side, what would he be doing differently ?")
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To: VanDeKoik
Who the hell has time these days to sit by an AM radio for 3 hours in the middle of the day to listen to a radio show?

Who the heck listens to radio at all anymore? I have 17,440 songs on my computer. I just recently wired in an mp3 player on my motorcycle so I don't have to listen to commercials when I'm on a ride. I think I've got something like a hundred hours of tunes on it now. I think that's plenty for wherever I'm likely to go.

98 posted on 03/05/2015 7:05:49 AM PST by zeugma (The act of observing disturbs the observed.)
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To: zeugma

Your listening habits are 100% consistent with young liberal lo fo’s......hmmm....


99 posted on 03/05/2015 7:07:55 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: VanDeKoik

Why should he?


100 posted on 03/05/2015 7:08:22 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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