Posted on 01/11/2021 6:53:59 PM PST by aimhigh
A talk radio company that employs some of the nation’s most popular conservative radio hosts has issued a memo barring talent from spreading conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election.
“We need to help induce national calm NOW,” wrote an executive with Cumulus Media in a Wednesday directive, the same day as the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, according to The Washington Post.
Brian Philips, the company’s executive vice president, went on to say Cumulus and its program syndication branch, Westwood One, “will not tolerate any suggestion that the election has not ended. The election has been resolved and there are no alternate acceptable ‘paths’. ”
“If you transgress this policy, you can expect to separate from the company immediately,” he added.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Strange that Mark Levin didn’t get the message....
>> Someone from the company leaked this internal memo
Good. Thanks!
Levin said this on air? Wow. He’s got major pull there..
Limbaugh doesn’t work for Cumulus, Levin & Bongino do.
They wish to shoot their business in the foot is fine with me, I have already discovered all the content that interests me on Internet “Channels”. Who needs an antiquated radio station.
Everyone I listen to has their podcasts, etc.
Does Cumulus wish to follow the path of FOX News? — CUT THEIR AUDIENCE AND AD REVENUE BY 50+%
It’s well known that suppressing discussion avoids the problem... said no one ever.
He’s syndicated...and maybe has in his contract that no one tells him what his opinion is? I’m telling you the the memo is real. I’m pissed about it. My husband is not as political as I am, but he was not happy about it. My husband is strictly a music programmer and dj, he’s not talk radio..but he got the memo. Like I said, he told me about it Wednesday or Thursday of last week.
I believe the story in some part, because it is Cumulus. They, I believe, got into the talk radio business to destroy it. Look at what happened to 770 WABC.
Correct. They are distributed thru Westwood One.
They are cutting their own throats.
Maybe he missed the email.
Good to know.
“Limbaugh doesn’t work for Cumulus, Levin & Bongino do.”
I know that but, they do BROADCAST his program on many of their stations yet, they went out of their way, according to the article, to say he is not subject to their “new rule”. If they were truly serious about their “new rule” they would have told Rush if you discuss the Election Fraud issue we will drop you. Yet, they didn’t.
They just went after the little guys. That pattern continues.
Radio puts out memos that they don’t enforce. Remember after 9/11 they had a list of songs that had to do with things that happened with 9/11, but djs didn’t get fired for playing them.
List of radio stations owned by Cumulus Media
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_radio_stations_owned_by_Cumulus_Media
Well...that settles it. My husband is one of the little guys then.
I miss The Zoo (KZEW).
Impeach Biden now
Fraud is a high crime
Let the proceedings begin
A VIOLENT ARMED INSURRECTION RIOT that snuffed out the lives of millions and millions, including cute, big-eyed puppies and cuddly kittens.
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