Thanks for the background information and 'inside baseball' financial details on the talk radio biz (and not excerpting!). Our culture has dramatically changed for the worse, and as you point out, advertisers are heavily influenced by our very liberal culture, even if we wish it were not so. Rush has a huge following of listeners but the advertisers may be shrinking due to their own weak knees.
Darryl, I always enjoyed listening to you while driving on various Saturday mornings over the years. Is Sensible Don still with us?
Personally I also blame the fact that most marketing departments are overrun with Millenial females with degrees from Liberal universities, who are heavily influenced by social media, and hence always raising the alarm to their bosses that Rush could kill their business.