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Re: Rush Limbaugh DUMPED By Chicago Radio Station WLS
« Reply #25 on: March 05, 2015, 08:28:35 PM »
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Cumulus Says Report WLS To Drop Rush Limbaugh Is False
   
Source: AllAccess.com

After ROBERTFEDER.COM reported early TODAY that sources said that CUMULUS News-Talk WLS-A/CHICAGO, mired in a ratings slump and reshuffling its lineup over the past few months, will drop PREMIERE's RUSH LIMBAUGH from its schedule as early as the end of MARCH, CUMULUS denied that such a move is happening, with a spokesperson subsequently telling FEDER later THURSDAY morning, “This is not at all accurate. Any report to the contrary is false.”

Read more: http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/139018/report-wls-to-drop-rush-limbaugh

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1. They'll ride that sinking ship right down to the seafloor. nt

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4. yep. they'll continue to lose revenue, and dump employees..

all in the quest to keep the illusion rolling that this blowhard is still relevant.

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6. It's all over but for setting the date

WLS is one of Chicago big ones. The call letters are said to mean World's Loudest Station from the days when stations were named (WGN - Worlds Greatest Newspaper, they were owned by the Tribune/WCLF - Chicago Federation of Labor/WVON - Voice of the Negro, it was the 60's/etc etc).

Unfortunately for WLS, they're running somewhere are 25th in the market during Rush's slot (11am-2pm CST). A friend of mine in the Chicago radio business jokes that there's a station that reads the daily lunch menu from the Lettuce Entertain You chain at noon on some radio station and it beats Rush - every day. I'm sure that's not really true but it does make a point.

Premier Radio Networks, Rush's syndicator and a wholly owned sub of iHeart Radio (aka ClearChannel) is in deep chit as non-ClearChannel networks like Cumulus finally come to the realization that hate radio is dead, it just hasn't fallen over yet. You saw this in NYC when Rush/Hannity/Beck all moved to ClearChannel stations. Same in LA.

Works great when there's a local CC talk station that can "suck it up". Unfortunately (or fortunately as the case may be) there isn't a CC talk outlet in Chicago. So....CC has to offer up enough to another network station to take him.

Look for Dennis Miller to get the boot over at WIND. Issue is that they have to give him 60-90 days notice that they're dumping him. He's not a Premier Radio Networks guy so they'll probably want the entire notice period on air. They can't announce Rush coming to WIND until Miller is formally notified and I suspect Premier is rebating WLS a hefty fee to keep the lid on this until it can all look like a seamless transition to a new station and everyone can spin it to their benefit (except probably Miller who probably loses his spot on the dial).

Anyway, it'll be interesting because the new station will likely NOT be susceptible to an advertiser boycott like WLS is. That's because Premier will cut a deal with them that practically (and possibly literally) pays them to take Rush. They can make zero on the ad buys and still make a profit.

It's just too important to Premier nationwide to keep Rush on in the top 10 cities. Losing Chicago would be a crack in the damn that would be hard to recover from.

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7. But wait - there's more.
 
Even el-Rushbo knows he's toast.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/05/1368747/--Rush-Limbaugh-Admits-Defeat-On-Facebook-Reports-Of-Being-Dropped-In-Chicago-Begin-To-Fly?detail=facebook#

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141030682
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Re: Rush Limbaugh DUMPED By Chicago Radio Station WLS
« Reply #26 on: March 05, 2015, 08:46:23 PM »
Quote from: Chris_ on March 05, 2015, 11:43:39 AM
It's amazing how that one idiot seems to be the only source for this story.

From same idiot: Cumulus denies dropping Limbaugh from WLS
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Re: Rush Limbaugh DUMPED By Chicago Radio Station WLS
« Reply #27 on: March 05, 2015, 08:50:38 PM »
DUmmie's source the Daily Kooks like it's gospel or something...    :lmao: :rotf:
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Re: Rush Limbaugh DUMPED By Chicago Radio Station WLS
« Reply #28 on: March 05, 2015, 09:50:59 PM »
DUmmy citing Daily Kos. Would of known?  :mental:
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Re: Rush Limbaugh DUMPED By Chicago Radio Station WLS
« Reply #29 on: March 05, 2015, 10:40:51 PM »
Quote from: I_B_Perky on March 05, 2015, 06:48:41 PM
You'd be surprised what radio stations you can pick up at night around here... especially if you are on top of mountain.   :cheersmate:

Yeah, that is the strength of AM, after sunset it will bounce back and forth between the ground and the ionosphere for an amazing distance...used to pick up KOLA Oklahoma City camping in the mountains in AZ and NM...and a station in Shreveport pretty much all over the central US.  FM on the other hand is a lot more like line of sight from the tower or repeater, day or night, with no bounce.  The sound quality, both fidelity and noise, is a lot better on FM especially if you're driving around in the transmission footprint, which is about the only time listen to the radio.
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Re: Rush Limbaugh DUMPED By Chicago Radio Station WLS
« Reply #30 on: March 06, 2015, 12:21:22 AM »
Quote from: SGT Snuggle Bunny on March 05, 2015, 08:28:35 PM
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DUmmies grasping at straws & wishful thinking.

I heard Rush say that...it had absolutely nothing to do with potentially going off of WLS.

And lurking DUmmies...WLS wasn't failing due to Rush.  They replaced all the local hosts surrounding his show, from 5 am to 11 am and 2 pm to 5 pm.  Several of the hosts had been with the station for 5-10-20+ years.  And they still carry Savage, Levin & Red Eye Radio from 6 pm to 5 am.

Additionally, I can listen to Rush on a variety of stations around the country via IHeartRadio.  Suck it, pathetic losers.
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Re: Rush Limbaugh DUMPED By Chicago Radio Station WLS
« Reply #31 on: March 06, 2015, 08:41:40 AM »
Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on March 05, 2015, 08:04:40 PM
There are still lib-progressive stations out there? ???

There are are three talker stations in the SF Bay Area - that I can recall with my 4:40AM coffee-deprived mind.

KGO, 810 - been there, doing that for nearly 40 years; basically liberal, though probably not liberal enough for DU-folk; it runs 4 hours of new in the AM drive and another 4 in PM drive.

KKSF, 910 - mostly liberal, of the not-liberal-enough-for-DU-folk flavor; Coast to Coast in the late night, early AM slot; AM drive show hosts are sort of libertarian-leaning (maybe KKSF manglement think that's needed for people driving to work, IYKWIM).

KSFO, 560 - national and local hosts for whom DU-folk have hate threads - Rush, Sean, Glenn, Levin; AM drive host, Brian Sussman is solid, a fairly frequent sub host on Mark Levin.

Nosing around a bit, I don't see many national Err-America-grade lib shows on-air on Bay Area radio. Most of the major (if the word can be applied to them) lib national hosts are on satellite radio and/or MesSNBC. Local loon Bernie Ward is doing time for kiddie porn (I'm not joking about this), and the loonier late-night local Ray Taliaferro (like Bernie) left KGO in 2011 (not sure how voluntarily).

Edit: There's still the hyper-dysfunctional Pacifica Radio mis-mangled KPFA, but I don't know to what degree their programming is talk. Their cumulative weekly audience is probably on the order of the audience listening to one day's AM drive show on KSFO.
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Re: Rush Limbaugh DUMPED By Chicago Radio Station WLS
« Reply #32 on: March 06, 2015, 08:46:31 AM »
I find it kinda pathetic that they are so intimidated by Rush.  I also find it hypocritical that they want to stifle everyone else's content they choose.
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Re: Rush Limbaugh DUMPED By Chicago Radio Station WLS
« Reply #33 on: March 06, 2015, 09:01:45 AM »
Quote from: Gina on March 06, 2015, 08:46:31 AM
I find it kinda pathetic that they are so intimidated by Rush.  I also find it hypocritical that they want to stifle everyone else's content they choose.

Libs & Progs have been prophesying Rush's imminent doom since Rush went national in 1987(?). It's a foaming-at-the-mouth hysterical visceral hatred.

Cumulus is almost as dysfunctional as Pacifica Radio. If WLS is going downhill the problem is Cumulus messing with what was successful, not Rush. Cumulus messed around with the schedule of a lot of their stations in a lot of cities, doing far more harm than good, as a whole. And if WLS is dropping Rush, he'll find another radio home for the Chicago area.
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Re: Rush Limbaugh DUMPED By Chicago Radio Station WLS
« Reply #34 on: March 06, 2015, 09:08:52 AM »
Quote from: Gina on March 06, 2015, 08:46:31 AM
I find it kinda pathetic that they are so intimidated by Rush.  I also find it hypocritical that they want to stifle everyone else's content they choose.

Gina, it's not hypocritical. It is right in line with the Third Law of DUmmitude: Dissenting opinions must be silenced.
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Re: Rush Limbaugh DUMPED By Chicago Radio Station WLS
« Reply #35 on: March 06, 2015, 11:53:11 AM »
Rush Limbaugh IS going off the air.....when he chooses to retire.

Suck it DUmmies.
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Re: Rush Limbaugh DUMPED By Chicago Radio Station WLS
« Reply #36 on: March 06, 2015, 01:54:43 PM »
Rush is just 24 business hours away from being dropped.

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Re: Rush Limbaugh DUMPED By Chicago Radio Station WLS
« Reply #37 on: March 08, 2015, 05:20:10 PM »
Quote from: Chris_ on March 05, 2015, 11:43:39 AM
It's amazing how that one idiot seems to be the only source for this story.

From same idiot: Cumulus denies dropping Limbaugh from WLS
Chicago Radio And Media


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Re: Rush Limbaugh DUMPED By Chicago Radio Station WLS
« Reply #38 on: March 08, 2015, 05:55:41 PM »
For whatever it's worth, I just looked at WLS' program schedule. Rush, Savage, and Levin are on it.
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