Posted on 05/06/2013 8:20:48 AM PDT by Biggirl
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Thanks for the thread.
The frog went to the NRA convention. Me jealous.
STAND UP!!!
Beautiful weekend for it too.
Frozen shoulder?
Hmmmm.... maybe I need some of this cortizone.
I had it 5 months ago. The pain was so bad I went to the emergency room. They thought it was heart attack. After they cleared me of that they still didn’t give me a cortisone shot which is what I came in for. It got better after a few days, not months.
When will Mexico stop bitchin about America and get mad a Spain?
After this year, Will Rush be on WOR?
no pain here.
Just limited range of motion.
Glad they fixed you up.
Who is on after Rush on WTIC?? I know ‘TIC dumped Colin Assinhole...
Carville is telling us what they fear.
Ted Cruz.
Ted understands the law and he does not fear what is unlawful.
Former Governor John Rowland comes after Rush. He is into radio talk now.
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I watch SeeBS Sunday Morning. Mo Rocca is actually pretty fair and balanced with totally hidden Libtard leanings. He’s pretty entertaining.
The Mexico piece was about how James K. Polk went to war with them for manifest destiny. Which is true.
Here’s the real story behind the controversy surrounding Rush and WABC.
The station is now owned by Cumulus Communications out of Atlanta. Cumulus inherited WABC (and other former ABC-owned stations) when Citadel Communications had to unload them a couple of years ago. Citadel bought them from ABC when Disney decided to unload most of its radio portfolio; that deal coincided with the onset of the recession and the collapse of the ad market. Citadel was saddled with billions in debt and Cumulus picked up their holdings at a fire-sale price.
Unfortunately, stations like WABC, WLS in Chicago, WBAP in Dallas and KABC in Los Angeles have been laggards in terms of sales and advertising revenues. In New York, for example, WABC has more than twice the audience of WOR, but bills only half of what KFI does in Los Angeles.
Lew Dickey, the Cumulus CEO, is looking for a scapegoat for his sales problems. Not too long ago, there was a minor house-cleaning at WMAL in Washington after Dickey decided that station wasn’t pulling its weight. To be fair, commercial radio is an ad-driven business. But to blame Rush for all of the sales problems at Cumulus is ridiculous. If it’s Rush’s fault, then why is KFI doing so well? Why does WCBS-AM in New York (with about the same number of listeners as WABC) bill far more than the Cumulus outlet? Why are a number of Clear Channel news/talk outlets (other than KFI) doing quite well in ratings and revenue?
Dickey has a notorious reputation as a blowhard and tightwad. Privately, he’s probably been told that his talk stations can’t afford to lose Rush, but by painting him as a revenue drag, he’s hoping for a better deal when his contract comes up for renewal. As I’ve noted on FR before, Rush is one of the few syndicated talk shows where local affiliates have to pay for the program and split the advertising slots with Rush and his syndicator. The vast majority of talk programs are offered for free, with the affiliates giving the syndicator a certain number of commercial minutes per hour.
If Dickey can’t work a better deal, he plans to put Mike Huckabee on stations like WABC in Rush’s time slot. Cumulus signed Huckabee to a deal last year and his show airs in many markets in the same time slot as Rush. Ratings for Huckabee’s show have been disappointing at best, but Cumulus stations will get that show for free and they won’t have to split the ad revenue with Rush.
Here’s how this scenario plays out, IMO. Rush will get a new contract, for eye-popping numbers); Cumulus won’t get the deal they’re looking for, so they will drop Rush for Huckabee. Ratings for WABC, WLS, WBAP and other Cumulus stations will crater. More Clear Channel news/talk outlets will pick up Rush’s show and in some markets, operators like Cox, CBS and Clear Channel will flip station formats to carry his show. This has already happened in markets like Pittsburgh, New Orleans and Raleigh, and it will happen elsewhere.
One more thing: there will be a major bidding war for Rush’s services. Clear Channel/premier wants to re-sign him, but don’t count out CBS and News Corp, among others. Fox News Radio doesn’t have a host with Rush’s audience, and Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch can match any offer from Clear Channel. CBS may seem like an odd pairing, but they have hundreds of stations around the country and they could bring even more affiliates into the fold.
Getting rid of Rush would be a colossal mistake, and it would cost Cumulus tens of millions of dollars in the next five years alone.
Well Texas wasn’t exactly clean either.
There was some bad blood, but for the most part we get along.
The Indians were not all sweetness and light either.
Dear Bob S,
Your initials are spot on. You spewed your BS all the way through Nov 6th! You can KMA and if this world were just, you’d be wearing tar and feathers by now.
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