[cricket]

"KVI used to be "Hot Talk," but with Rush's departure they have fallen off dramatically."

A station actually dropped Rush?

[bushisdamanin04]

No, no, no, no. KVI was devastated when Rush went to rival 770 (KTTH, I think). As you probably know, it is not uncommon for one ownership group to own numerous radio stations in the same market; this is the case in Seattlegrad as well. What happened was that the ownership group which had the Mariner broadcasts lost the Ms to another large ownership group. The group that got the Ms also had Rush (on different stations). As revenge, the ownership group that lost the Ms managed to get Rush.

KVI stated publicly that they would have done almost anything to keep Rush, but were not even given a chance. They said they were notified that they were losing Rush and that it was a done-deal and there was no point in KVI even trying to keep him. And it was.

Also, it was stated that the rights to Rush are owned by a group outside of Rush's control and that Rush has no say in which station gets him in a market. But, no, KVI did not dump Rush. They did, however, DUMP Michael Medved.

[gorush]

"A station actually dropped Rush?"

Many stations switched awhile back which had to do with Clear Channel syndication, not the desires of the individual stations.