"In addition he will have to keep in mind that his biggest affiliate and home station(probably where the satellite up link for EIB is located as well) is in NYC at WABC.
How does he blast ABC(if they edit heavily) and still stay on good terms with his biggest affiliate."
The real question ABC or WABC are going to have to ponder, if they even consider trying to silence Rush, is not IF they will get blowback from their listeners and the entire Internet, but how high on the Richter Scale that blowback will register.
BTW, I'm fairly certain that EIB has its very own uplinks and doesn't depend on WABC to do much but rebroadcast the feed exactly like the other few hundred or so affiliates. WABC (or at least the stream I used to get from them) became so unreliable and flakey that I, at least, stopped using them long ago in favor of others. (WLS, KOA, .....etc, etc, etc.)
Funny you should mention the streaming at WABC. It really is a joke.
It's difficult to get,on my computer at work I have to kill the norton before I log on and most of the time their breaks are either silent or so poorly done you would think it was a tiny little station without any resources. Imagine a station too lazy to sell their Internet breaks!!
Bottom line is IMHO, WABC just doesn't care! They are the number #1 talk radio station in the country, everyone wants to be on there and many listen no matter what! Why should they do anything to make it better to listen to? They really don't care.