He left ABC of his own volition to go to WOR radio - one of the best and most famous radio stations in New York. As did Sean Hannity.
Also, Rush has small businesses as advertisers. As does most of ‘right-wing’ talk shows. This story is full of more holes than my old colander.
Not really.
Rush's deal is with Clear Channel.If they sell off a bunch of stations and acquire others it's only natural that he goes to the new one's even if they have no signal or no audience. That's radio.It doesn't happen very often but it can and did happen to Rush on a handful of the 600 stations he is on.
Clear Channel(cheap channel) has always been the asshole/armpitt of companies to work for. Once you have been clearchanneled as I was you never forget it.
It probably cost some ad money and some numbers but with that many affiliates he still has 13 million listeners and hes still #1 right there with Hannity.
Politico has a habit of coming down on conservative pretty hard and this article was anything but unbiased.
Recently, Limbaugh has had a problem in that he was always expected to be above the fray of other talk show hosts and remain fair,balanced and objective.
He stopped being fair and objective in early March shilling for Ted Cruz and has only come around over the past few weeks as Trump has become the clear winner.
Even now he told a caller the other day he would still not openly state his support for Trump even though he has stopped blasting him on the air for the most part.
Reasons vary.
And remain the big question. Why did he break listener confidences?
Was it Mark Levin and his brother who were openly riding the cruz SUV? Was it jealousy knowing that he could do what Trump was attempting and do it much better or is it something much more sinister? We may never know.
If you follow the money you ask yourself who or whom is he beholden to(that we may or may not know about) and is he following their lead or even orders?
Hard to tell why he changed being the leader he had been for 25 years.Will his wishy washy effort for Trump result in lost revenue and fewer listeners? Hard to tell.Some here on FR claim they will never listen to him or some have already stopped.
Others like myself listen to him in a much more questionable manner studying every word for bias. It's a new day on the EIB net.
Yes and the article implies that his new stations don't have the signal strength as his previous stations. But that certainly isn't true for WOR. Also given Rush's time slot at 12:00pm AM radio signal strength doesn't matter much, there is no ionosphere bounce at that time. This is just the contract negotiation propaganda that always comes out.
The syndicator has to ask themselves this: who do you replace him with? What talk show host is going to hold an audience and not be controversial? Now I have not been particularly happy with Rush during this primary season. He has been a little off his game from the few times I was able to listen to him. But when I'm in the car from 12 - 3pm EST there is literally nothing else to listen to from a talk show perspective in my area.