WRKO To Pre-empt Rush Limbaugh For Red Sox Spring Training Games

SaveWRKO ^ | 3/8/2007 | Matt Margolis

[No Dog]

A Letter from The Program Director of WRKO:

Dear WRKO Listeners:

As you know, last May, WRKO entered into a 10 year agreement to broadcast Boston Red Sox Baseball. We are extremely excited about this new partnership and are very confident that the Red Sox will play a major role in our plan to take this station to the next level. Our contract calls for us to air 15 spring training games from Florida, in addition to the full 162 game regular season schedule. A handful of the those 15 spring broadcasts begin at 1p on weekdays and as such have caused us to pre-empt the Rush Limbaugh show.

[No Dog]

Red Sox spring training games over Rush Limbaugh!?!?!?!

[3AngelaD]

Today, the laughingly parochial WMAL substituted a college basketball game for Rush Limbaugh. This in Your Nation's Capital.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Rush taking back seat to the faggot Red Sox?

[JohnSheppard]

So what if they are pre-empting Red Sox for Rush, the real crime is when they are doing this to Howie.

[NonValueAdded]

Could be a contractural requirement. They probably shelled out big bucks for the Sox broadcast rights and don't want to mess that up. Besides, I'll bet that isn't the only station that carries Rush in the majority of the listening area. If they were smart, they'd broadcast Rush on a sister station for those handful of games. Then again, now you have EIB contractural considerations that might come into play.

Solution: subscribe to Rush 24/7 and listen to the podcasts.

[newgeezer]

Ehhh, Rush is on all the time. Missed it today? Catch it tomorrow.

This is baseball, man. Spring has sprung! Woo-HOO!

(Even if it is the &$*#^@ Red Sox.)

[Gay State Conservative]

FYI...Rush is streamed on WABC's (in New York) website.

www.wabcradio.com

[SandleFry]

I'm a baseball fan but nothing is more boring than listening to a Spring Training game on the radio. I guess with Dice-K it makes it more interesting, but I'm surprised they agreed to broadast ALL ST games.

[RayChuang88]

And you wonder why the Rush 24/7 subscription service (which includes the ability to download entire shows manually or through iTunes software) is so popular nowadays....

[fkabuckeyesrule]

Kinda tells ya how big baseball fans red sox people are that they would broadcast their baseball games...most teams just broadcast their weekend/evening games.

[big'ol_freeper]

When WBAL in Baltimore had Rush Limbaugh (he's on WCBM now) they used to pre-empt Rush for Orioles baseball if a game were played during the day. At least a Red Sox game is worth listening too.

[xp38]

That would be the 3rd place Red Sox right? :)