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Who are the Dickey brothers and why do they hate the conservative movement?
American Spectator ^ | 04/03/12 | Jeff Lord

Posted on 04/06/2012 7:56:02 AM PDT by Til I am the last man standing

RINO Radio? Republican In Name Only Radio? Taking on… Rush Limbaugh???????? And demeaning the audience of one's would-be customers… this is a business proposition? Seriously? There's two parts of this discussion: talk radio and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee.

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KEYWORDS: cumulus; huckabee; rhino; rush; rushlimbaugh; talkradio
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To: Til I am the last man standing
The Dickey brothers can hire a limo, send Huckabee to my house, with pizza and beer in hand, and I still wouldn't take 2 minutes out of my day to listen to anything he has to say.

Rush's (and Levin's) audience will find him, no matter where he is. This is bordering on paranoid hyperbole.

21 posted on 04/06/2012 9:28:26 AM PDT by Tex-Con-Man (T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII 2012 - "Together, I Shall Ride You To Victory")
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To: offduty

So you’re saying that they are in so much debt they can’t eat out and have to “eat our own cooking”? lol! I think their eyes are bigger than their stomachs and if they don’t watch out they are going to have to take a huge enema.


22 posted on 04/06/2012 9:29:19 AM PDT by Til I am the last man standing (It's the internet Senators; We can see what you are doing!)
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To: Flag_This

“I don’t like anything about that banjo-pickin’ clown.”

Fair enough. I like him, but sort of like the way I like watermelon rind pickles. In modest amounts at infrequent intervals. I am certainly not going to go on a steady diet of either the pickles or the Huckabee.


23 posted on 04/06/2012 9:31:02 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (I'm not willing to light my hair on fire to support Willard. He is what he is.)
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To: Til I am the last man standing

When I think of Huckabee, I think of his horrible demented son who hanged that poor dog while he was at camp.


24 posted on 04/06/2012 9:50:06 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Til I am the last man standing

John Dickey says, “We are in favor of eating our own cooking.”

Sounds to me like John Dickey is in favor of attempting to impregnate himself. Because that’s what is going to happen if he replaces dumps Rush for Mike Huckabee.


25 posted on 04/06/2012 10:01:46 AM PDT by servo1969
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26 posted on 04/06/2012 10:06:23 AM PDT by RedMDer (https://support.woundedwarriorproject.org/default.aspx?tsid=93)
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To: servo1969

At the very least he’ll need a high enema.


27 posted on 04/06/2012 10:06:48 AM PDT by Til I am the last man standing (It's the internet Senators; We can see what you are doing!)
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To: Til I am the last man standing

When Cumulus was first formed, Lew and John got into a bidding war with Randy Michaels and Jacor to see who could accumulate the bigger/better broadcast conglomorate.

Michaels sold Jacor and it became Clear Channel.

Cumulus, as well as Clear Channel, and others were spending money like druken sailors. They would pay 5, 10, 20 times book value for a station just to get a leg in the market.

A lot of times they would buy a fringe station near a large market and move the transmitter site in order to gain access to the larger market. This was done by everybody, not just Cumulus.

When the economy started to turn, radio companies and especially Cumulus were saddled with a ton of debt as a result of their expansion. The biggest expense in radio is personnel, so that’s where they trimmed.

That’s why the Bob and Tom’s and the Delilah’s of the industry are syndicated. It’s cheaper to pay one high salary and then place the program in multiple markets.

If you own the station, you save the day-part personalities salary and you maximise the commercial avails. If someone else owns the station, you can sell the syndication and hold a portion of the avails for yourself.

Cumulus Media, at one time, had a stock price of around $50 a share. I believe they are now trading at less than $10 bucks. Some of the purchases were combo deals of cash and stock.

Do they owe a ton of money....you bet. Are the Dickey Brothers using their properties for political purposes? No way. It’s about ROI and that’s all it’s about.


28 posted on 04/06/2012 10:49:04 AM PDT by offduty
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To: Til I am the last man standing

List of markets here:
http://www.radioink.com/goout.asp?u=http://www.radioink.com/Article.asp?id=2131644&spid=24698

Seems some inside the trade believe the Dickeys to be boobs.


29 posted on 04/06/2012 11:12:35 AM PDT by Churchjack
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To: offduty
Well I know who I'm going to go to now if I've got a radio station question.
Thanks for sharing your comments.
30 posted on 04/13/2012 4:38:28 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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