Posted on 02/20/2021 8:40:49 PM PST by Nextrush
"In 1989 I took Rush Limbaugh's radio show off the air in St. Louis..."
Jeff Long had his first "encounter" with Rush way back in the early days of his syndicated radio show.
But there was more to come.
Jeff would end up working in Rush's home town of Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
He would meet Rush in person but there's more.
And at the link below what Paul Harvey used to call on the radio "the rest of the story"...
So many memories of Rush that for me include memories of the music that Rush loved. He would play songs before his radio show as sort of a pre-show warmup which was broadcast online around the turn of the millennium back in 2001 and 2002 as I recall...
Those are all songs that "El Rushbo" loved and I remember them. Rush did syndicated television for a while in the early 1990's. Roger Ailes was Executive Producer in Roger's pre-Fox News days. The guy whose company syndicated the show was man who was the king of daytime TV talk coming into the 1980's and by the 1990's had his own company and lots of money.
Phil Donahue brought Rush onto his show for this interview....The show starts a few minutes into the video...
I worked some master control back then at a TV station and I saw the feed of Rush's TV show around 915 pm. Unfortunately the TV stations airing his show ran it late at night 1230 am or later generally. The show faded out after a few years.
I remember getting the desire to work in media to do radio to be a disc jockey when I was 11 years old and I guess Rush caught the bug when he was as young as I was...
(Excerpt) Read more at nextrushfree.blogspot.com ...
The Grooveyard of forgotten favorites!
Tonight I added to the donations for this quarter to Free Republic in memory of Rush H. Limbaugh III.
Great stuff.
You should get a job.
Got two my friend and I work 60 plus hours every week on them.
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