Rush is TOAST!!1!!eLebInTy!!1 Pt. MMMCDLXXXIII

[98ZJUSMC]

Since, I believe, the (D)Ummies come here when they lurk, I'll just drop this here:

Talk Radio Thriving as Rush Limbaugh Signs New Contract That Shows His Dominance

Writing before the election it was crystal clear these folks were braced for a massive Trump defeat - and they were laying the blame for this anticipated blowout squarely at the feat of Rush, Sean, Mark and Laura.

The election results were, um, different than they anticipated. The Trump revolt was nothing if not a vindication of talk radio’s criticisms of the GOP Establishment on Capitol Hill not to mention liberalism and the liberal media writ large. Now comes this news, as per a press release from Premiere Networks and Cumulus Media. The headline, dated December 14, reads:

CUMULUS MEDIA RENEWS DEAL WITH THE RUSH LIMBAUGH SHOW

Premiere Networks and Cumulus Media announced today a renewed and extended affiliation agreement that will keep The Rush Limbaugh Show on 33 Cumulus stations through 2019. On the heels of the program’s 28th anniversary in national syndication, the multi-million dollar deal represents Limbaugh’s increased power and audience appeal as the most-listened-to national radio talk show host in America.

http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/jeffrey-lord/2016/12/24/talk-radio-thriving-rush-limbaugh-signs-new-contract-shows-his

Suck it, i(D)iots.     Oh, did I forget this? .... :

It goes on with tributes to Rush, well deserved I should add. Realizing this is only a portion of the stations that air Rush’s show (he is on over 600 stations), this moment of Rush’s resigning is exactly a good moment to reflect on the fact that only a few years ago his critics and the critics of talk radio in general were cheering - because, they insisted, talk radio was dying.

Remember that?
 
Fvck you, and I mean that sincerely.

[SVPete]

This is amusing on a couple of levels. Several years ago Cumulus took Rush and Sean of their premier stations (e.g. KSFO) and shifted their shows to some of their lesser stations. This was done to promote some of the shows Cumulus was syndicating (e.g. Huckabee, IIRC). It didn't work, and Rush & Sean were back on KSFO after about a year. Evidently Cumulus has retained the lesson taught by Rush's and Sean's listeners.

More generally, Libs & Progs have been prophesying Rush's demise since G. H. W. Bush's election in 1988. Rush will go off the air when it stops being fun or when he is no longer physically able.

The only corner of TalkRadio that is in danger of dying is ProgTalk. The only SF Bay Area ProgTalk station, that I'm aware of, is an obscure Pacifica Radio FM station in Berserkeley whose staff is slightly smaller than its listenership and is as known for its petty-loony kingdom-building co-op manglement as for its content. The less crazy, liberal, station, KGO has been reorganized with Cumulus' Inverse Midas Touch (whereby touching gold turns it into @#$%). In two stages Cumulus canned most of its well-known and -established local hos, replaced them with cheaper unknowns, and shifted some of the known hosts to another Cumulus station. Except for one long-timer they kept, KGO listenership is down, and after several years, Cumulus switched that other station to Spanish language news and business talk.