Didn't know he had a book. I liked the movie where he was boning Rob Lowe's mom.
Posted on 05/17/2008 1:29:30 PM PDT by shrinkermd
Last Friday Rush spent an hour of "precious broadcast time" discussing a book by Jim Nantz. Jim Nantz has worked for CBS for 24 years.
CBS is self-described on their Web Site as:
"...CBS RADIO is one of the largest major-market operators in the United States with stations covering news, alternative rock, oldies, country, talk, classic rock, JACK and urban formats, among others. A division of CBS Corporation, CBS RADIO operates 140 radio stations, all but one of which are in the nation's top 50 markets. The overall mix of each radio station's programming is designed to fit the station's specific format and serve its local community.
CBS RADIO continues to make aggressive moves to converge new and traditional media through creative programming and advanced delivery methods, including online streaming, HD Radio, mobile messaging and podcasting. Audio streams of more than 140 CBS RADIO stations and custom channels are currently available online, and two thirds of the Company's stations are broadcasting in HD digital radio.
Additionally, CBS RADIO is home to 27 of the country's leading sports franchises amongst MLB, the NFL, the NBA, the WNBA and the NHL, including the New York Yankees, New York Mets, Chicago White Sox, New England Patriots, New York Giants, Chicago Bears and the Detroit Red Wings.
Further enhancing CBS RADIO's programming exposure is the Company's long-standing alliance with Westwood One, which provides stations with news, sports, weather, music, talk and entertainment programming and content, and presents an unparalleled menu of events such as the Olympic Games, NFL football, NCAA basketball, including the Men's Basketball Championship, The Masters, the U.S. Open, the Grammy Awards and the Academy of Country Music Awards
On the other hand Clear Channel (CCU)who holds Rush's current contract just recently finished a tortuous and discouraging (for the shareholders)settlement. See this from the current issue of Barron's:
...THE SUCCESSFUL RESOLUTION LAST week of the Clear Channel Communications leveraged buyout is a big victory for the radio and billboard operator's shareholders. They're getting a very generous price, considering the weakness in the company's core radio business. The outlook is much riskier for the buyout group, led by Bain Capital Partners and Thomas H. Lee Partners. A private Clear Channel (ticker: CCU) will carry a debt burden of perhaps $18 billion, and the company is being purchased at a premium to the valuation of such other big media companies as CBS, Time Warner and News Corp., the owner of Barron's.
Bain (Mitt Romney was a co-founder but now allegedly is inactive) and Thomas H. Lee agreed to pay $36 a share for Clear Channel, or $17.9 billion. That's below the prior deal at $39.20 a share that Clear Channel reached last summer, after shareholder opposition to the original agreement at $37.60 a share in 2006. The agreement at $36 represented a concession by Clear Channel after banks sought to pull out of the deal at $39.20 because they faced losses of $2 billion in financing that transaction. Rather than pursue lawsuits against the banks, Clear Channel was willing to recut the deal, pleasing the buyout group and reducing losses for the banks.
The URL for this is: HERE.
CCU will be in no mood to give Rush a better deal, perhaps they would even choose to give him a lesser deal while CBS may be on the prowl for a greater radio presence since they do not have a cable news channel.
Just a guess, but the deal, Rush uncharacteristically spending an hour with Jim Nantz for a new book and puffing (at least it seemed to me) both the CBS radio and sports presence all lead me to think a change may be in the wind.
If rush leaves clear channel, I would think he could start his own radio broadcast conglomerate. I know he has a soft spot for AM radio. It’s in his blood. He’s probably also a fan of shortwave and HAM. It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if he’s thought of merging AM and shortwave in some way...say a shortwave channel that is just on the fringe of the normal AM band. Then broadcast with rediculous power from an array of towers strategically placed around north america.
That would be cool. That’s what I would do if I were rush.
Yawn????
Not knocking golf in any way, but there are few games in which playing them with someone for four hours would not give you the gist of that person.
Hasn’t RUSH already jumped to “RUSH RADIO” on the FM dial? He is there in New Orleans on 99.5 FM !
The most important gist in golf would be to see if they held their head still or not. I don’t believe how many golfers still move their head as they swing.
Bad idea.
Part of the allure of rush is his somewhat “underground” flavor. You can’t get that by embracing main stream broadcasting media. Plus, rush is strictly a sound communicator. We all know what happened to his experiments with visual communications media.
Radio rocks. TV is for dullards. TV is to radio what comic books are to shakespear.
I resent your characteriztion of me. Where’s my cigarette? Who’s got a hollowed out pumpkin?
This is so true I wonder why he did it. Nance means nothing to me.
It WAS uncharacteristic of Rush. I was baffled and still am. It was the first time in a long time that I tuned out Rush.
Your tinfoil hat is wrapped a wee bit to tight.
Rush would have to give up way too much to jump to SeeBS radio. He is his own boss now...can’t see him giving that up.
Clear Channel’s syndie arm is Premiere Radio which does
Rush, Beck, Coast to Coast, Dr Laura, etc. He airs on
Clear Channel stations in many markets (ex.: WTAG
Worcester MA, WGIR Manchester NH) and in some cases a
Clear Channel station picked him up from another
(Prov. RI, where he recently jumped to Clear Channel’s
WHJJ)
http://premiereradio.com/category/view/talk.html
Word is that Hannity is thinking of leaving ABC-Citadel
and may jump to another company, perhaps even changing to a noon time slot.
http://premiereradio.com/shows/view/rush_limbaugh.html
“Affiliates of The Rush Limbaugh Show form an elite group of radio stations that have helped redefine the political landscape while becoming the most popular talk stations in their markets.
Before Rush Limbaugh began broadcasting on network radio 15 years ago, political talk was often dry, hackneyed, and boring.
Rush Limbaugh’s lively, humorous, and just plain fun program has rocketed his show to the most listened-to long form program in the history of network radio, and his affiliates to new ratings heights in their own markets.”
That’s why golf is, The greatest game;)
Rush working for CBS would be like Miss America working for Ted Bundy.
I thought it was a wonderful interview!
Do you read the interviews that Rush puts in his monthly newsletters?
Interesting post, I was wondering what was going on. In many respects it was an interesting hour, but, totally unprecedented for Rush.
Didn't know he had a book. I liked the movie where he was boning Rob Lowe's mom.
The spacious, manicured golf courses of the US are the envy of the world. Unfortunately for their owners, they face a problem: Americans are deserting the game in their millions. Stephen Foley reports
Friday, 22 February 2008
"...According to the National Golf Foundation, the number of people playing golf has not risen in any year since 2000, and has fallen from 30 million at the start of the decade to 26 million now. Last year, the number of rounds played fell by 0.5 per cent, with the fall being most pronounced at expensive private clubs and in the south of the US.
"...Club owners are hoping for another star to emerge. One even dared to hope for "a bad boy, a Dennis Rodman of golf", referring to the controversial basketball player whose self-aggrandising, swearing, and celebrity-dating antics are a million miles from the clean-cut Tiger Woods – and a million miles from the kind of behaviour that would be acceptable at the exclusive country clubs of golfing history.
URL: HERE.
Only 26 million golgfers? How many watch NASCAR? At least one NFL game? NBA finals?
I have to agree—it was boring radio. I’ve listened to Rush for 18 years. And I’m not against sports. But I don’t like fawning sports commentaries. And no fawning interviews please. I’m sure the guy is an inspiration to all he meets and good luck to him on his book. And Rush has no obligation to satisfy all his listeners all the time. But I tuned it out.
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