ScottLee
Mmm, no, that mischaracterizes the reality of his "rise". He did not do it by fighting and clawing his way up the pole. His audience of hateful angry little ****s was already out there. He had but to bend over and pick up the crumpled dollar, as it were.
I've worked in a radio, and can tell you what some successful syndicated artists told me....you can succeed by fighting your way to the top (rare) or you can pluck the fruit of the low hanging bush. That's what Limpballs did.
Fister
What Rush was able to do was lose money for over a decade.
He gave away the program to any station who would take it in return for air time to sell ads in.
Gradually selling patent medicine and car insurance made enough money to turn a profit, and eventually the ratings were good enough to be able to actually charge money for the show.
But you have to be able to build that audience over many years by losing money.
And our Limousine Liberals will not lose money on anything willingly.
Richard Mellon-Scaife was more interested in getting the message out than money, as he knew the money would come some day.
A slap-down by fister on the ScottLee idiot. The dimwit was trying to claim that the audience for Rush was just there and all he had to do was walk into it. Fister correctly points out that sometimes you lose money short-term for gains in the long-term, something no doubt this ScottLee dumba** had never even considered. Hate to be the one to point it out to you dimwit Scott, but if the audience was just there and all Rush had to do was walk into it, that's called a sure thing and you don't lose money even short-term with that kind of a deal.
However, this still backs up the point made by the lib chick that AAR just tried to create a market instead of cultivating it over time like Rush did. It doesn't matter how many times they try, the market for lib radio isn't there. It's nothing you can't already get from ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, The NY Times, etc...
But the WRS website is not long for this world, it's just a matter of time. Fister needs to get a new hobby.
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