They're picking up Dana Loesch' show for a full run in part of Rush' slot but have been steadily shifting to more "moderate" views for the rest of the lineup.
Well, ok...
And then the current programming staff will be swept out because of the low ratings and they'll switch to country.
In a year they'll be 'The New Talk'.
Everything old is new again.
I guess they don't care how few people listen to their station.
Their loss. Good luck with their lib programming.
The only reason I listened to that station. Garrison blows RINO bigtime.
Station is probably owned by George Soreass.
I kinda thought that was the whole idea behind owning a radio station, making money?
Wonder what the finances look like of that station?
Who owns that station?
Stand by,Indy...you'll be getting Disney Radio before you know it.
Someone else will pick up Rush’s show...
It’s a free country - radio stations like WIBC have the right to make bad choices... maybe the station’s so wealthy they can afford to become ‘Air American’... who know? Who cares?
Isn’t Rush going to Cirus or however it’s spelled?
And they are doing this just 1 - 1/2 years before a huge presidential election?? Talk about being real short sighted. The ratings should be very good through November of ‘16 if they keep Rush.
Emmis are run by liberals. Expect their ratings to be much much lower compared to if they kept Rush.
WIBC’s loss and another station’s gain.
Such a decision is another station’s gold mine.
radio stations that push Left... Push up daisies....
The MSM and other lefties love to trumpet these “local station dumps conservative talk show” stories. But almost invariably the talk show finds a new home (or, in some instances, found a new home PREVIOUSLY, and the old station merely spins this by saying “you can’t quit, we’re firing you”).
(In fairness to this particular story, they DO include this bit midway through: “’We look forward to announcing a new home for “The Rush Limbaugh Show” in Indianapolis soon,’ said Rachel Nelson, director of public relations for Premiere.”)
In L.A., for example, Rush and Hannity moved last year from KFI over to another station. My sense is that KFI, which replaced Rush/ Hannity with local-only chat shows, was simply hoping to spend only 10% of the Rush/Hannity money while retaining 15% of the ad revenue.
Bottom line: Rush isn’t going anywhere.
Hrm.
I really like Loesch, and I do think she’ll appeal to younger conservatives. And I’m sure that her show is less expensive than Rush’s. Still, Rush is the king of talk radio, and he is likely to stay the king, even though the format (i.e. conventional radio) seems to be in decline. Surely another station in Indy will pick him up.
As for WIBC itself...I’m not in Indiana, so I don’t know a whole lot about the lineup. I have listened to it a time or two on my computer. I caught a local show called “Chicks on the Right” a while back. It’s okay, though I really only can take that in small doses. I’ve also heard bits and pieces of their late-night “mashup” clip show.