Cancel Rush Limbaugh Or Lose Contract

Newsmax ^ | June 13,2007 | newsmax

[OPS4]

Wednesday, June 13, 2007 1:26 p.m. EDT Cancel Rush Limbaugh Or Lose Contract

The government in Broward County, Fla., is seeking to cut ties with a local radio station – because it also broadcasts Rush Limbaugh’s show.

Station WIOD AM-610 has been the official channel for emergency information from the county government for the past year. But the County Commission, made up of all Democrats, refused to renew the relationship on Tuesday.

Commissioner Stacy Ritter said she did not want the county to be linked to a station "that’s out of step with area politics,” the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports.

She cited talk shows hosted by conservatives Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and WIOD’s partnership with Fox News.

"They have every right to speak, but we don’t have to do business with them,” she said.

But Ken Charles, WIOD’s director of AM programming, told the Sun-Sentinel: "It’s a shame that people would let politics get in the way of saving lives in a hurricane.”

The county’s contract with the station was about to be rejected when commissioners decided to delay a final decision until next week.

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[HKMk23]

Would broward county rats refuse a cost-free contract?

Would the radio station management be sane to offer them one?

I say, "No", let the RATS hoist themselves on their own petard. Station management will be glad to run revenue-generating commercial content in place of that irritating EBS test, anyway.

[Bringbackthedraft]

Sniff, sniff, smell that, it has the smell of a Law Suit. I can see Fox taking it to court. Well I guess they can do what they want, it works in Venezuela

[poobear]

I just sent her a raving e-mail.

[HKMk23]

Broward’s looking to shoot itself in the foot.

Uh, they're aiming higher than that; more toward the, uh, confluence of the anatomy.

[visualops]

Would broward county rats refuse a cost-free contract?

Perhaps, sounds to me they are more interested in their feeelings than what's good or right or smart.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Leftism is a culture of oppression.

[Paperdoll]

They have every right to speak, but in her opinion, the people do not have the right to hear?

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Ahh, those intolerant “liberals”. What’s happening is that word is getting out to the left that they have to eliminate dissenting voices, such as Rush, Savage, Laura, and Hannity. Between now and the election, you will see more and more attempts by the left to silence rightside radio.
Last election they tried to get Rush in jail. They failed. They will try again, and fail.
A definition of insanity is trying again to do the same thing that failed, and expecting a different result.

[Doctor Raoul]

Commissioner Stacy Ritter said she did not want the county to be linked to a station "that’s out of step with area politics,” the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports.

Stacey should be considering signal strength/coverage area, maybe even % of population covered by a particular station when selecting who's going to be the emergency broadcaster.

Once again, you have democrats betraying the public trust by playing politics with the lives of people instead of protecting those lives.

Any solution that optimizes politcal advantage at the expense of public safety means that Stacey and the other Democrats have blood on their hands. Not a question of if, just when.

[al baby]

You win the Free Republic Typo Twit of the Day award. Fee speech is vey series and expensive! I’m surpirsed is so hugh! Your beeber just got stuned.

Guud now eye can past the torch

[MaxMax]

Drudge needs to headline this story for a week..

[PEACE ENFORCER]

I can’t wait to hear what El Rushbo has to say about this in the next couple of days......

[Doctor Raoul]

Talk about feeding at the public trough...

Looks like she inherited Tammy Fay's makeup collection in the will.

[Red_Devil 232]

That looks like a leftist liberal poster to me! Shouldn’t there be a jackass on the arm band and flag?

[Bigh4u2]

“Liberals stepping on fee speech. Surpirsed?”

It’s more than that.

It’s Extortion!

Plain and simple.

[lilylangtree]

Gag at a gnat and swallow a camel.

[CindyDawg]

IMO, what it says is that if you listen to this station you will not receive warnings. They should be contracting with every radio station to warn as many people as possible.

[AlexW]

I am a bit confused and something in this story does not add up. I just heard about it on Hannity.

In an emergency I thought ALL radio stations got the the same feed from the NWS, or any other agency.

[wolfcreek]

WIOD JIHAD

Hello, My name is Homer Simpson. I listen to WIOD becuse it’s the only station I can get on this stupid radio..........DOH!!

[kitchen]

Umm, shouldn't that be a jackass on a blue flag and armband - to make your point? After all, fascism - wealth redistribution and government control of productive resources - are critical components of the philosophy of the American left.