Radio Insider Reveals Devastating Impact of StopRush on Clear Channel

[kpete]

THU NOV 14, 2013 AT 01:22 PM PST
Radio Insider Reveals Devastating Impact of StopRush on Clear Channel
by ProgLegs


Rush Limbaugh's receptionist

Buried deep in the comments on a Wednesday blog article http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10372 about the cancellation of the Randi Rhodes Show, a radio industry insider revealed the devastating impact of the 18 month-old StopRush movement on Rush Limbaugh's advertising power. attribution: None Specified The station employee confirms that the siege by online activists https://www.facebook.com/groups/flushrush/ has left Premiere Radio unable to attract legitimate advertisers to what was once radio's most lucrative advertising platform:

Uch. If you had any idea how much of my day is spent loading up PSAs and crappy MAB commercials to cover up the commercials of actual advertisers bailing from the Rush Limbaugh show. The only paying customers left are the flotsom and jetsom of the ad barrel; every scam website, colon blow medication, phony tax restoration outfits and erectile dysfunction herbs.

Premier isn't where a progressive talker wants to be anyway. They're becoming the bane of radio's existence.

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10372#comment-511339

MORE:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/14/1255490/-Radio-Insider-Reveals-Devastating-Impact-of-StopRush-on-Clear-Channel

[Laelth]

1. Good. k&r n/t

-Laelth

[Roy Rolling]

34. Mission Accomplished! n/t

[maxsolomon]

48. not yet

when he's off the air the mission is accomplished.

[Fumesucker]

2. How to pound the stake in even further

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002374653

[Curmudgeoness]

6. Do you know if Premier is still getting high fees from local stations

or have they had to cut the amount that they are paid? I cannot imagine that they are still willing to pay as much as they did in the past. I was off work today, and listened to Rush. I noticed the ads were really low on the totem pole. And that made me feel good.

[Fumesucker]

13. Probably not so much as they were in the past

I can recall when local restaurants had "Rush Rooms" where you could eat to the dulcet tones of that waste of scrofula.

Every advertiser that drops him, every station that stops broadcasting his filth is another blow on the stake through the shriveled bitter dog squeeze that passes for Limbaugh's heart.

[mimi85]

15. My new fav saying.

"shriveled bitter dog squeeze" Excellent! Thanks for the laugh!

[Eleanors38]

35. Count Windemere's flutter-blast.

[silvershadow]

3. Good. nt

[Glorfindel]

4. Yay! Very good news.

n/t

[dembotoz]

5. good

[japple]

7. Thank you to everyone who wrote a letter to one of these advertisers

saying that they would not buy their products/shop in their stores/eat in their restaurants as long as they provided advertising support to the Rush Limbaugh "show." Thank you one and all.

[Hekate]

8. That's my little ray of sunshine for the day! nt

[frylock]

9. delicious!

[BumRushDaShow]

10. They put the Jabba the Blob back on WPHT here in Philly

Time for action.

[navarth]

43. I always thought 'Jabba the Slut' was appropriate.

We can differ

[MannyGoldstein]

11. Another. Liberal. Victory.

Onward!

[toby jo]

14. +1

[marble falls]

12. Spokesperson Rush Limpbaugh ....

http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.5065081900959181&w=166&h=188&c=7&rs=1&pid=1.7

[rurallib]

16. I feel so sorry

but son-of-a-gun I am over it. Not sorry for them at all.

They could have let Rush go - or bully through it. Looks like they picked wrong.

[rudolph the red]

17. K&R

[Jack Rabbit]

18. I dedicate this song to Rush Limbaugh and Clear Chennel

The outfit that supported the run up to the Frat Boy's phony war against Iraq by censoring music played on their cookie cutter rock stations coast-to-coast:

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[Thucydides]

29. The Origins and meaning of the song Kumbaya...

The song is an African-American spiritual "that was collected in the 1920s from the Gullah — or Geechee — people of the South Carolina and Georgia coast," says Jeff Place of the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. "The Gullah have always fascinated folklorists because they have kept major parts of their African language and speak in a unique English dialect to this day."

The exact evolution of the song is somewhat mysterious, but Samuel G. Freedman of Columbia University traced what may be the earliest recording of the song back to 1926 when a folklorist — using a primitive wax-cylinder recording device — captured the voice of a Georgia man singing it.

Writing in The New York Times in 2010, Freedman noted that "Kumbaya" is actually a soulful cry for divine intervention on behalf of oppressed people. "The people who were 'crying, my Lord,' " Freedman wrote, "were blacks suffering under the Jim Crow regime of lynch mobs and sharecropping."

This was a very good NPR piece, well worth the read.....
http://www.npr.org/2012/01/13/145059502/when-did-kumbaya-become-such-a-bad-thing

A beautiful interpretation of the song from the above article...

[Jack Rabbit]

47. Thank you that information, Thucydides

It's good to see you staying on top of things 24 centuries after the Peloponnesian War.

[Thucydides]

56. What ever that means?

[mountain grammy]

19. Gives me hope.

[JEFF9K]

20. It's a wonder that Rush ever had any legitimate advertisers. ...

A show like his, with a gullible audience that will believe anything, is perfect for SCAM advertisers.

[certainot]

21. they're going to subsidize him as long as they can. he's point man for their most invisible weapon

and their most important weapon. because the left has been ignoring it it has been all free for the republican think tanks, reaching 50 mil a week from 1200 stations.

to put the nail in the coffin americans need to stop letting their state funded universities broadcast sports on what are not only partisan radio stations but clearly antithetical to what most of those universities declare to be for in their mission statements.

here's a list of about 70 unis that broadcast sports on 170 or so limbaugh stations, or 28%.

https://sites.google.com/site/universitiesforrushlimbaugh/

those stations and many others depend on school sports for community acceptability and to bring in ad revenue. if americans ended that piggybacking the RW radio monopoly could be decimated and the randi rhodes would have many more radio stations available. and the right would no longer be able to short circuit US democracy with unchallenged loud repetition creating alternative realities and pretending to represent popular opinion.

[Eleanors38]

37. People I know who are in the radii biz have noted that

Clear Channel et al have purchased stations with high Arbitron ratings and good balance sheets, installed RW formats, and consequently have taken ratings hits. But this had been going on for 20 ys. There is much more to the RW agenda than running a sustainable broadcast biz model.

They wanted and got an entire mass-media network to promote a RW culture, cost be damned.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

39. Every time there's a coup in some 3rd world country

the first thing, after arresting or shooting the president, is a takeover of the radio and t.v. stations. ClearChannel is just getting out ahead of the game.

[certainot]

58. they short circuited democracy with it. the coup happened while the 'left' looked elsewhere, unable

to read what was happening on radio while it kicked internet ass.

[certainot]

57. yep. liberals who underestimate the dominance of RW radio often fall for the lie that the monopoly

is an expression of 'market' forces- like 95% of talk radio is RW because 95% of americans who listen to talk radio prefer the wit and wisdom of limbaugh and hannity.

the RW radio monopoly doesn't exist to sell hair tonic and penile enhancement products- that just keeps the stations paying rent and staff. it's basically free advertising for the 1% and their interests. it exists to sell war, deregulation, tax breaks for billionaires, and global warming denial. and it has done an excellent job doing that for the last 25 years, right under liberals' noses while they analyze in a talk radio vacuum and blame the symptoms instead.

[Eleanors38]

61. The mantra chant of economic determinism is the secular equivalent of Bible-quoting.

The RW was quite willing to cut deals with less income than those of more rounded biz models, treating the packaged blowhards as loss leaders in hopes of establishing a deeper culture for its philosophy. Democrats & liberals have drawn away from an identifiable, clearly understood outlook which Americans could support. The political radio network could not work for Democrats even if they had the $ and willingness to try it.

[certainot]

63. what's allowing their highly successful radio operation to work is that it is unchallenged. they

put carnival barkers on every corner and stump in the country screaming all day that we're sluts and thieves and our ideas are treasonous and we stick our ipods in our ears and walk by. let that go on every day for years and pretty soon even the neighbors who know you turn on you.

and there's no written record for the analysts and students of media and politics to read so they analyze in a talk radio vacuum. and the pollsters never include radio listenership when they try to figure out why so many americans believe total BS.

and we allow our universities to broadcast sports on RW radio stations (28% of limbaugh stations piggyback limbaugh stations) https://sites.google.com/site/universitiesforrushlimbaugh/

and there are no protests at RW radio stations- the true GOP teabagger HQ's.

it wouldn't take more than 20% liberal radio to destroy the certitude they need to sell their lies and alternate reality.

[Eleanors38]

64. On-air programming challenges were few & far between,

and the Party ain't sayin' nothing. Which might be a blessing: How can a decent liberal commentator get righteous about what the Party's record has been?

You can have the talent & money both, and it would be next to impossible to pull off a radio network without a credible focal point for your philosophy. Liberalism is cut off.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

22. PETITION to save Randi Rhodes Show!

Petition through MoveOn

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/save-randi-rhodes-radio?source=c.tw&r_by=319940

[The Wielding Truth]

28. Thanks. Life will be harder to handle without Randi Rhodes' voice in it.

[pstokely]

40. flood Sirius XM

https://www.facebook.com/siriusxm

[BlancheSplanchnik]

41. good one!

Gotta fight the right wing.

[Gothmog]

51. I saw on DU that her show was renewed

This is great news

[BlancheSplanchnik]

54. yeah!! the article linked in the OP was realllly depressing. Sign the petition anyway!

just cuz they renewed doesn't mean they're not puke scum looking for a reason.

they need to see she's a market share.

[Art_from_Ark]

23. He's still on military radio

I tuned in to Eagle 810 (Japan) last night and there he was, ranting about Obamacare.

[Arugula Latte]

24. Happy happy joy joy!

We need to go after ALL hate radio thugs in the same manner! Make the whole genre TOXIC for advertisers!

[nyquil_man]

25. Erectile dysfunction herbs. How appropriate. nt

[progressoid]

26. And Colon Blow!

[47of74]

27. Lumpsucker is walking and talking colon blow!

[Eleanors38]

38. Cult of the Brown Spray.

[greiner3]

42. Dan Akroid's parody on SNL;

Was the best commercial parody but apparently there's no video of it out there.

However, there's one that's crappy (no pun intended :evilgrin

[madokie]

30. Best thing I could have read this morning

f* rush and his little blue pills

[Xipe Totec]

31. Frankly, Rush could use a little "Colon Blow" now and then. nt

[Erose999]

32. I know Premier employs some liberals, but they will have to deal with the consequences of signing

the dotted line with Premier if they get canned. You lay down with dogs like Rushbo, and you get up with fleas.

Keep the pressure on them. I think the next part of the campaign should work on getting college sports off of hate radio stations. I know WSB in Atlanta (home of Limpdick, Herman Un-Abel, HaNutty, Michael Savage Weiner and other haters) makes a killing on UGA football (and probably takes a loss on some of the haters they broadcast). If we could separate WSB from the UGA football broadcasts... they're done.

[7962]

53. Problem is WSB is a power station heard a long way out of Atlanta

UGA wont want to be on another station.

[RebelOne]

60. I know. I live in the Atlanta area and listen to it

on my car radio on the way to doing errands. I mainly only tune in for the news, but sometimes I am subjected to Rush and Cain.

[Erose999]

62. I think 106.7 FM is all news. That may not be the exact frequency, but its somewhere near it.

I listen to the radio a lot. Haven't had TV in over a year and don't miss it.

[Berlum]

33. Rush needs to try his flotsam advertiser's products: colon blow

http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/colon-blow/17wszdr9a

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

36. There is hope in the world...

this is proof that he is afforded a lot more weight and influence that warranted. Now we just need to stop news sites from posting the "did you hear what Rush said today" items with the video links. He'll continue his slide into oblivion where he belongs. Although, I need to know where to go to get the 800 number for the gold guys or the 10% of the profits and all of the glory go to God tax guys when I'm not listening to Sirius in my car. Not to mention "all-natural male enhancement"!

[Beach Rat]

44. I heard he did pick up a new advertiser...

Junior Samples Used Car Sales

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

45. Good,

with that wound open, let's pour something caustic into it!

[HoosierCowboy]

46. That just made it...

...a sunny day. That's the way the right wing Blowviators ought to be taken down, by the free market economics they espouse ad nausem.

[nxylas]

49. What does MAB stand for?

Apologies for my ignorance.

[kurosagi]

52. Maybe Mediocre at Best?

I'm not sure myself

[stlsaxman]

50. and TODAY it has been announced "Randi Rhodes Contract Renewed!!!"

everyone, even Randi, thought Dec. 13th would be her last show on Clear Channel....

WOW!

[DeSwiss]

55. K&R

[Quantess]

59. Good news. (no text)