[Pravious]

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, Rush has been back three days... and all three days I’ve eventually had to turn off the show because I simply cannot STAND listening to an hour’s worth of radio where he’s doing a five minute ad five times an hour.

You’ve built your reputation on decades of honesty and trust between you and your listeners, Rush... Does it NOT enter your head that relentlessly shilling for whoever pays you enough money to do so is undercutting that? How about those people who pay premium “24/7” prices to AVOID the friggin’ ads?

The good news is... the fill in hosts don’t seem to pull this crap.

The better news is... the guy sitting in today was actually pretty good (not as good as Mark Steyn, though!). :-)

[Watershed]

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, Rush has been back three days... and all three days I’ve eventually had to turn off the show because I simply cannot STAND listening to an hour’s worth of radio where he’s doing a five minute ad five times an hour.

Sounding like a broken record or not..... This has been a huge irritant to me recently. I download the podcasts from my 24/7 subscription. Each hour is approximately 36 to 37 minutes. The third hour has about 15 minutes worth of content because Rush puts all the Carbonite, Heritage Foundation, Lifelock, BG (?) car products, Hillsdale College (and on certain holidays-- flowers, candy-covered cherries) commercials! I truly feel betrayed having spent the money to avoid these ads. If he keeps accepting sponsors, the content portion will be less than 50% of the show.

Rush is the best thing going, for sure....but he needs to settle down a little in the ad department.

[Ingtar]

I believe the reason he does so many ads when he returns is that they pay him for x amount of personal promo time and he has to catch up.

[Current Occupant]

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, Rush has been back three days... and all three days I’ve eventually had to turn off the show because I simply cannot STAND listening to an hour’s worth of radio where he’s doing a five minute ad five times an hour.

I remember when Rush was proud to announce that he has not added commercials to his show. So he hasn't added commercials but does infomercials instead. The big problem with that is that the others are doing it also.

TGO is probably the worst offender, doing not only infomercials but constant shilling for his books, thing is, seems like nobody really cares.

I would complain but I just switch over to Hewitt during his long commercial breaks and his infomercials. Thing is, I never buy anything these guys push on their infomercials.