Limbaugh and Hannity are not out of (?)work(?) Let's act

[Vietnameravet]

Just as I was told several months ago they are both moving to WOR NY ...and the source also told me Glenn Beck will be joining them..

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/rush-hannity-leaving-cumulus-wor-article-1.1411314



Okay everyone what can we organize to cause this station to fail?

[Mr. David]

1. Have Cuomo revoke the WOR's charter until the right-wing hacks are banned

or is balanced with left-wingers to counter it. Or introduce a state-level Fairness Doctrine for all media broadcast out of New York.

that'll work.

[GlashFordan]

2. So much disinformation

Lim and Han are moving to WOR in NY.

WOR was recently purchased by Clear Channel. So Lim and Han are just playing ball for the "home team" do to speak.

The post that claims WABC dumps Lim and Han is fiction.

Bottom line, there are a shrinking number of rw'ers who listen to this stuff. It's still the #1 talk radio format in the US but will be gone in 20 years.

[Dawson Leery]

3. It could be less than 20 years.

Clear Channel is demanding more money for a shrinking audience. The other stations owners know Hannity/Limbaugh/Beck are not worth anywhere near their value a decade back.

CC will settle for a smaller contract.

[wercal]

4. I think there will be more local ads

As I understand it, Limbaugh was in a somewhat unique position. When a station paid good money to air his show, they also had to put up with using some of the ad slots for Limbaugh's own advertisers...and more so than what is considered typical for a radio program.

Now that Limbaugh has a reduced number of advertisers, Clear Channel is going to ask for fewer ad spaces, but more money...and the local stations will air their own ads. There's still alot of national advertisers who have given instructions not to be on Limbaugh...but there are plenty of local businesses who rely heavily on radio advertising, and may not be in a market that would realistically boycott them. So they will stay and continue to buy air time.

This way, both sides can claim victory. Clear Channel gets more cash money, and the Cumulus stations get more ad slots.

[Vietnameravet]

5. Okay what can we do to cripple this station?

[wercal]

6. You mean cripple Cumulus?

Very little. Each market may be able to boycott the local ads that air during his show, but that would be difficult.

As I understand it, Glenn Beck now has an internet tv channel, and Howard Stern is on Sat Radio. Even if Limbaugh left the public radio air waves, he would still find a home....somewhere...just like these two did. Many moons ago, he even had a tv show (1992ish). Limbaugh is not the type of guy to just shut up...so he will keep talking until his dying day.

I wouldn't fixate on trying to get rid of him. Just ignore him. The highest estimate of his audience size is 20 million...less than 10% of our population; and, many of those are fellow travelers who don't need Limbaugh to affirm their ideology. Just ignore him.

[Vietnameravet]

7. How about WOR?

[wercal]

9. My understanding is Limbaugh is not on WOR now

...but they are considering it. I don't kmow how to cripple a large station like that.

[KharmaTrain]

8. They Weren't Fired...

...they lost some of their largest affiliates in a power play between the two largest radio corporates: Clear Channel (who owns rushbo and hannity's bilefests) and Cumulus media who no longer wants to fork over millions to their prime competitor. This game has been playing out for quite a while...starting back over a year ago when Citadel (later consumed by Cumulus) began a new show with Mike Hucklenutz to compete with rush.

Both companies are billions in debt and hope to push one another over the edge for the few remaining table scraps of advertising revenue over-the-air AM radio still generates. Clear Channel bought WOR late last year in anticipation of this move and rumors have them buying WGN in Chicago to replace the stations lost. Surely this is a blow to rushbo's ego as he'll probably end up on weaker signals or have to cave in to taking a smaller paycheck from Bob Pitman (Clear Channel CEO). The real losers, unfortunately, are 625 Clear Channel employees who are in the process of being fired to further tighten belts to pay rushbo's big paycheck and keep Pitman's jet flying.

In short...this is just another step in the overall decline of radio...a once vibrant industry that got deregulated into irrelevance...