The station is technically licensed to Camden NJ and was previously owned by Family Radio (how's that rapture workin' out for ya Harold)
The NY Crimes seems to indicate it’s a step down but WKDN could be a very good signal, maybe even better than WPHT for some...no static no static no static at all, FM (no static at all...)
Again we don’t know the date and we’re not certain if WKDN
is the station but it could well be.
Some people point out “oh, Rush has a contract with such-and-such for the next year”. Those things can be
broken. In Boston in 2010, the word came out that Clear
Channel/Premiere was starting a cons. talk station that
would be called Rush Radio (now Talk 1200). And people
said, “Wait, WRKO (Entercom) has a contract for Rush
for one more year.” Guess what: the contract got broken
(CC/Premiere owns 1200) and Rush was soon off WRKO
and onto the “new” (at the time) 1200.
Stay tuned.
I’ll actually be relieved not to have Rush constantly preempted by Phillies games.
Limbaugh’s show was pulled from the local talk radio outlet here in Raleigh some time ago (AM680). The folks who own Limbaugh’s show moved it to one of their own stations, an FM station that had always been classic rock format.
Two things happened.
First, being now on FM, Rush never sounded so good (there wre other, better rock stations to fill the music void). Second....that AM station just flat DIED.
How do you replace Rush Limbaugh? You don’t.
The move in Philly is NOT a step down!
Merlin registered several web sites for the station, including FMNewsPhiladelphia.com, FMNewsPhilly.com, and FMNews1069.com. They’ve also registered Fox1069.com.
If the new 106.9 decided to pick up Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity and Mark Levin (who currently airs on tape delay on WNTP), they could kill off what’s left WPHT in three ratings books.
It is a great step up when any talker can move to FM, as daytime AM is the pits.
When I was in TN, 50 miles outside of Memphis, there were days when I could not get Rush due to noise.
I once tuned him in on AFRS (shortwave)
I now get Rush via DAR.fm which records his program for me to play back when I wake up in the morning.
This is a great free service that will prerecord any program you want.
For real time radio, I use www.tunein.com, another great internet service for listening to most any station in the world, as long as it streams online.
New York Slimes tries to make like Rush got dumped by the station, When it is the opposite, Rush dumped the sation for a better venue.
We get Rush on FM here and it is much better and clearer reception than another one that carries him on AM.
Notice Rush is packing up, not being TOLD to go...
Maybe Premiere is choosing to go to some of the stations it may hold an interest in someday...to withstand the liberal Nazis when they go ballistic again.
Mr. Smerconish is a relative rarity on radio: a moderate....Ahhh! Nothing to say, nothing to illucidate on.
MODERATE COON IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD
Congratulations to WKDN if this comes to pass. They`ll have an exponential increase in audience. WPHT.. well... enjoy your drop-off. Smurky is an 0bama worshipper who still stands by his “man.”
LLS
Why is ANYONE suggesting this is a bad thing? Rush will now be on live instead of tape delay. The liberal blogs are claiming this is a step down, actually, it’s a step UP to be heard live instead of delay.
The NYT suggests bad things in a piece, you have to read to the very end to find out that now Rush will be heard live in a major market, hardly a step down. Typical liberal BS, everyone here is smarter than that.
Ah. I was wondering what was going to happen to Brother Campion’s radio empire. Does this mean 94.5FM in northern NJ will changing over to news/talk as well? It has a very good signal.
Sad though if all the talk hosts leave the 50,000 watt beacon of freedom WABC-AM.
Interesting to go into business to lose money...maybe like a "moderates" AirAmerica...!?
However, it does seem like an amazing coinkydink that a conservative talk show host is being replaced by a liberal one (and an Obama supporter) a mere seven months before election....and in one of the key battleground states where Obama needs all the help he can get.
Rush's fans may very well follow him from AM to FR, but Smerconish appears to have at least some measure of fans and influence from what I read.
Leni
Rush has been strategically repositioning himself onto FM signals whenever they are available. The press is trying to spin this as a loss or a setback, whereas I’m sure it is part of a planned strategy.
I can’t stand Smerconish, from the same law firm as snarlin Arlen. seems like he’s a guest on the show every month. Smerc lost me totally when he went in the tank for 0bama...
Thanks for the tip. Way too many times, Rush’s show gets pre-empted with baseball, so I tune to 770 and bear with the static. I’ll hope the reception is better and the interruptions fewer. And that Smerconish loses to Huckabee.