Posted on 03/06/2012 10:17:57 AM PST by Steelfish
Rush Limbaugh's Advertisers Continue To Drop Off- ABC Asks If This His "Imus Moment" (video)
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Hum? Well, as I listen today, sure doesn’t seem he is lacking in advertisers.
No, this isn’t his Imus moment. It is the corrupt MSM fanning the flames attempting to provide fuel to the embers. Sorry Steelfish, I ain’t clicking on the article to give hits to the story.
mainstream media are trying to get him off the air, like they did with Dr. Laura..
They’re fanning the flames, but people are now awake to the game.
They may have come for Rush toooo late!
Hmmm. Imus is now on Fox after a short hiatus and he had nowhere near the audience Rush has. Wishful thinking on the part of MSM.
How about:
“Rush continues to dominate talk radio, despite controversy”
or
“Limbaugh sponsor share value tanks after dropping ads”
We live in parallel universes.
Wishful thinking from ABC.
SnakeDoc
Same question can be axed of this femihag that overplayed her hand. Just another 30 yr old commie activist trying to grow gummit.
Pray for America
The unintended consequence of slutgate is that Rush’ listeners will keep increasing past 20 million and he will be stronger from the experience. He will be one of the few businesses that can replace its sponsors at will with no loss of revenues.
All I hear during Rush’s commercial breaks are, well, commercials... the ones I always hear. Me-thinks most advertisers know where to put their advertising dollars. But hey, even if advertisers leave, that makes more room for Rushbo’s parody commercials... love-em all!
The comments on Yahoo are scathing toward ABC/Yahoo and are supportive of Limbaugh.
Already switched from allstate when they refused to confirm my insurance. Ticket eventually got tossed when I submitted evidence...
Thanks AllState.
Headline should read, Rush Discovers True Allies as Fake Friends Jump Ship.
They made millions advertizing through him. One little un-PC moment and they’re gone.
He’ll keep going, they won’t.
Ok....i am ready to turn this around....i am dropping allstate and proflowers is dead to me...but now i want to support the biz who stayed and who have bought new time with Rush. Anyone got a good list as well?
SLUTGATE
Perfect! that takes away all my anger!
I can laugh now! What name can I call obama -—
I listened to his what-ever you call it speech and had to leaave the room - what I was saying was not nice!
The lefties are probably tweeting these advertisers to death.
Imus Moment? More like wishful thinking.
Rush has plenty of headroom in his business model to lose ad revenue and still be “sustainable”, a concept the left loves to scold us about. No doubt he also has capital to draw on to cover any cash flow deficit for a long time.
But to bring up Imus is a hoot, almost silly, because these same people have very short memories. Imus’ sin had a half-life of about 3 months, and now he is back. The same will happen to Rush, although the left will keep fanning the fires and the half-life on the slut kerfuffle will be a little longer.
There is a market-clearing rate for Rush that even today would fill every one of the slots in his show clock that are his to sell.
I can’t wait until I hear who Rush signs on as replacement sponsors. I hope he has a bunch lined up waiting to get in :)
Imus Moment? More like wishful thinking.
Rush has plenty of headroom in his business model to lose ad revenue and still be “sustainable”, a concept the left loves to scold us about. No doubt he also has capital to draw on to cover any cash flow deficit for a long time.
But to bring up Imus is a hoot, almost silly, because these same people have very short memories. Imus’ sin had a half-life of about 3 months, and now he is back. The same will happen to Rush, although the left will keep fanning the fires and the half-life on the slut kerfuffle will be a little longer.
There is a market-clearing rate for Rush that even today would fill every one of the slots in his show clock that are his to sell.
Imus Moment? More like wishful thinking.
Rush has plenty of headroom in his business model to lose ad revenue and still be “sustainable”, a concept the left loves to scold us about. No doubt he also has capital to draw on to cover any cash flow deficit for a long time.
But to bring up Imus is a hoot, almost silly, because these same people have very short memories. Imus’ sin had a half-life of about 3 months, and now he is back. The same will happen to Rush, although the left will keep fanning the fires and the half-life on the slut kerfuffle will be a little longer.
There is a market-clearing rate for Rush that even today would fill every one of the slots in his show clock that are his to sell.
Same here. For every advertiser dropping off, it appears others are quite willing to fill the void, whether national or local. I found it to be rather comical that radio stations in MA and HI dropped Limbaugh's show. What're they going to use to lure listeners... some local attempt at talk radio? Yeah, THAT's a winning hand...
How to end this leftist nonsense:
Everyone should go to the ProFlowers site and load up a shopping cart with thousand$ of dollar$ worth of flowers, click to complete the sale and fill in ‘RUSH LISTENER’ as first name & last name. When it wants you to put in credit card info, abandon the cart. Repeat at every other shopping cart based advertiser that drops Rush.
If thousands do it from coast to coast, it will tie up their website with zero sales. When they analyze the abandoned carts they will find out that RUSH fans affect their sales more than sluts who refuse to pay for their own birth control.
Also, Imus was dumped by the pathetic MSNBC.
Well ABC, perhaps Rush will simply buy your network and fire all of you?!?!?!
Mau-Mauing the Fluke rappers.
This morning Imus finally calmed down a bit
He blasted Rush for "vile, repulsive name-calling" after a day of worse "vile, repulsive name-calling" of his own toward Rush.
-- this from Drug-addled Don Imus who calls Gingrich "Skunk Vomit" and calls Santorum "Butt Pus". Drug-addled Don even had his audience vote on the name for Santorum.
I know that childish name-calling is his schtick.. but he ain't kidding here. Why the arrogance? Professinal jealousy? Has to be. Rush does his show solo.. Imus needs a talented staff of on-air assistants to remain on air -- and that's a fact.
(Yes he says he stopped ILLEGAL drugs.. but I believe that unlike alcohol traces of drugs remain in the body for a long time.)
I just heard an Allstate commercial just after Rush near the top of the hour.
Dr. Laura isn’t on the air anynore?!
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=carb
Burn baby burn!
24 corporate weenies bow to a flood of pseudo outraged leftist shills on Facebook?
Guess the left is trying to “arab spring” Rush Limbaugh by intimidating his sponsors
LOL! Now are Axelrod Inc and his flying monkeys gonna reward those sponsors by buying their products? Because those companies slinking away from Rush have jusr dissed and pissed the largest radio show audience in the US by playing along with a leftist assault on free speech.
Do they think we the people “NEED” the products they have been shilling on the EIB network? Where else are they going to buy ad time to reach millions of people?
This is going to get interesting.
Soldier on, Rush. When the going gets tough, we find out who the tough really are.
Add Capitol One - oh now THERE’s a company that sticks with guys who are respectful to women - like their spokesman, Alec Baldwin
Oh and Netflix slinks away- that ought please the unemployed basement dwellers who are flooding corporate Facebook pages with faux outrage
O’reilly Auto Parts will be getting a lot of my business that used to go to Auto Zone.
On the subject of Imus, I hated it when he groveled to Sharpton in 2007 about the “nappy headed ho’s” remark and got crucified anyway.
Imus should have called Sharpton a no-good murdering race pimp and dared him to do something about it. The eventual outcome wouldn’t have been any worse and he might have developed a cult following.
anyone know the cost for a 30 second spot?
“click to complete the sale and fill in ‘RUSH LISTENER’ as first name & last name”
Just did that very thing on a multiple order. >:-D
Great idea! Let’s all do it!
AOL just dropped their sponsorship of Limbaugh’s show? I don’t recall (I must be going DemocRAT)ever hearing an AOL ad on Rush. I thought AOL had gone out of business anyway.
The Carbonite 52 week high was 21.10 and they have never made a profit {and now they never will}.
This CEO is an asshole but worse, is letting his personal politic views get in front of his fiduciary responsibility to his shareholders.
The board of directors should fire his sorry ass.
—Wishful thinking from ABC.—
I don’t think it is wishful thinking. I think it is just playing up the story to keep people reading/watching. The title grabs attention.
—Same question can be axed of this femihag that overplayed her hand. —
I don’t think she overplayed her hand. I think the democrats overplayed her hand. This is going to bite them big time. They brought the wrong person before the spotlight. I can only assume that they deluded themselves into thinking most of America will agree with her shenanigans before the spotlight hit. They are in for a rude awakening.
They forget, for example, that every time gay marriage is taken to a vote of THE PEOPLE, it fails. Only when judges (and a few politicians) get involved does it get approved.
This may be a “jump the shark” moment for the MSM and the democrats.
Agreed, we have the right message and they are scrambling for any issue to make something stick. This is about abortion and forcing churches to submit to the state. They know they are completely exposed on very thin ice.
Pray for America
You can call Obama a liar.
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