BREAKING: Rush Limbaugh Syndicator Suspends National Ads For Two Weeks

[ProSense]

BREAKING: Rush Limbaugh Syndicator Suspends National Ads For Two Weeks

By Judd Legum

Radio-Info.com reports that Premiere Networks, which syndicates the Rush Limbaugh show, told its affiliate radio stations that they are suspending national advertising for two weeks. Rush Limbaugh is normally provided to afflilates for free in return for running several minutes of national advertisements provided by Premiere each hour. These ads called “barter spots.” These spots are how Premiere makes its money off of Rush Limbaugh and other shows it syndicates.

But without explaination, Premiere has supended these national advertisements for two weeks. Radio-Info.com calls the move “unusual.” The development suggests that Rush Limbaugh’s incessant sexist attacks on Sandra Fluke have caused severe damage to the show.

From the memo:

Attention Traffic Managers of Premiere News/Talk Affiliates:

We are suspending the requirement to run barter spots for two weeks, March 12th and March 19th, for our News/Talk affiliates only.

Please replace/re-traffic any Premiere barter spots immediately. Contractual requirements to run barter spots are being suspended for these two weeks only. Replace them with Lifelock and Lear Financial or a local spot of your choice.

Earlier today, ThinkProgress exclusively reported that 140 advertisers, including dozens of major national corporations, had requested their ads no longer air on Rush Limbaugh. Lifelock and Lear Financial among the only companies standing by Limbaugh.

Over the last several days much of the advertising time during the Rush Limbaugh show on his flagship station, WABC, has been filled with free public service announcements.

http://thinkprogress.org/media/2012/03/12/443195/breaking-rush-limbaugh-syndicator-suspends-national-ads-for-two-weeks/

Petition to remove Limbaugh from AFN now at more than 22,800 and counting: http://wh.gov/X1O

[babylonsister]

1. "...Limbaugh’s incessant sexist attacks on Sandra Fluke have caused severe damage to the show."

The development suggests that Rush Limbaugh’s incessant sexist attacks on Sandra Fluke have caused severe damage to the show.


No kidding?! It's about time. And ftr, YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Zalatix]

21. And he's taking others of his ilk with him.

That's the best part of all!

[Carla in Sequim]

53. YES! Oh, the domino effect is coming.

Also, please read this comprehensive diary from Daily Kos. It lays it all out.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/12/1073837/-Rush-s-ad-suspension-What-it-means-and-what-we-should-and-shouldn-t-do-now

[Zalatix]

55. Visit in person and file a license challenge? Oops.

There aren't many liberal stations for the GOP to retaliate against this. A war of license challenges will only affect them.

Got to get to it!

[47of74]

43. Another one for the no bleep Sherlock stack

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. I am soooooo lovin' this!

The OxyPig is going down!

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Drip, drip, drip

I know Rush will not like it, but retirement is near.

[malaise]

58. Sweet, sweet, sweet

Jamaican proverb:
Evry day carry bucket go a well, one day di bucket bottom muss drop out!!

[foreigncorrespondent]

4. ROFLMAO!!!!

The dirty scum bag doesn't deserve national advertising or anything for that matter.

[mucifer]

5. prepare for a total meltdown from his fans.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

18. What fans - the 100 people that signed his "pro-Limbaugh" petition? BS = Limbaugh = BS

[Aerows]

36. Most of the people who defend him

preface it with "I don't listen to him, but" or "I don't like him, but". To hear conservatives talk these days, none of them, have listened to him, no way, no how, but...

And we all know they are full of it because they all repeat him verbatim 10 minutes after he says something. He's turned toxic alright.

[Kingofalldems]

6. Wait. 'the fading Limbaugh issue' as one of his pals put it,

is not going away?

Yikes.

[Aerows]

11. This looks pretty damn severe to me

And certainly not like "fading". LOL. They pay Rush to carry his show in some markets. You can BET that is going to dry up immediately. I'm sure part of this is that they are going to renegotiate. Heck Glen Beck has to PAY stations to run his programming. You see how that has made him fade into the background.

Rush and his right-wing friends look like they are about to get the same treatment. I think Rush has shat in the pool for everyone.

[titaniumsalute]

30. Not really

More than 60% of his affiliates are owned by Clear Channel...thus those are all barter.

The others are in long-term contracts. But I guarantee the feedback is awful.

[Aerows]

32. If you can't get people to pay to advertise

You are screwed. Rush is screwed, and so are the others like him. This isn't going anywhere. Rush probably won't be on the air in a few weeks.

[PatrynXX]

56. Frankly it was the other comment that may have irritated the advertisers more

that advertisers don't matter to him. he doesn't care what they do. They never stopped him from getting his message out and his loyalty is to the audience and not the sponsors. Think that lined sealed his fate.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

31. But think of the troops! How will they be able to cope?!

[AtomicKitten]

7. Two weeks? Is that like a timeout?

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Think glen

Iirc something similar happened with him.

[AtomicKitten]

15. this time it has legs

[FSogol]

66. +1 n/t

[KharmaTrain]

60. Yep...

They're hoping the noise will blow over. I hear rushbo's on "vacation" for the next couple days. It's a hope things will fade away as the media and blogosphere find a new shiny toy to chase after and it can go back to business as usual. That said, this step is unusual...

[Honeycombe8]

9. That sounds like a way to fill the blank air space with other, local ads.

Instead of being embarrassed by silent air (which was stupid on their part...they could've played a song or something), they are now telling local stations to set up their own spots to fill the blank air where national ads used to be.

Bwahahahahahaha. It's gotten to be a serious situation.

[Aerows]

12. Who locally wants their company advertised on his show?

That's just going to bring a torrent of anger, too. This is going to be an excellent meltdown. I can't wait to hear Rush say again how he doesn't care about losing advertisers.

[localroger]

16. The dead air wasn't dead on the radio

...that was only on the internet feed, which doesn't overlay local ads. Still, it seems like a lot of advertisers who suddenly find themselves on Rush due to his slots opening up aren't liking it. Saw an article a couple of days ago about a couple of free PSA's that don't want to be aired on this show. That's gotta sting.

[90-percent]

10. What do his remaining fans have to say, anyway?

I would think that any Rush fan would now be ashamed to publicly admit it.

-90% Jimmy

[Aerows]

13. Most are

For every person who defends him, most say "I don't listen to him, but" or "I can't stand him, but". LOL. None of them will claim him, despite trying to defend him. It's hilarious.

[workinclasszero]

14. Pigboy is deadmeat! Killed by his own hate!

Nobody took him out, it was suicide! When the mega rich and famous fascist hate talker decided to verbally and publicly assault a poor private citizen in the most vile terms..a 3, count em, 3 day assault he went way past the point of no return!

I have to wonder if Rush was on a three day Oxycontin binge? He was so totally vicious with that poor girl.

He still needs to be banned from armed forces radio so its not quite over yet and

please God let the rest of the teabag haters go down with him!

The invisible hand of the free market has spoken, Rush, Hannity, Savage, etc!

How does it feel to be on the losing side boys??

[NJCher]

74. oxycontin binge

I have to wonder if Rush was on a three day Oxycontin binge? He was so totally vicious with that poor girl.

This was my question, too, but I can't answer it because I have no standard for comparison. Is he like this about others on his show?--maybe others who are not so sympathetic as a young graduate student. Is he not generally vicious?

I don't know and the only way to know would have been to listen to him over a period of time. Who among us could stand to do that?

So I think this is a very difficult question for us to answer.

Also, is viciousness and lack of judgment a symptom of Oxycontin use?

Again, I know nothing of these affairs, but I sure am curious.

Any regular Rush-listening Oxycontin users here?

Yeah, I kind of thought not.


Cher

p.s. laughed at the smilie story at the end of your post!

[Mariana]

17. Wonderful! Now we can concentrate on the local advertisers!

I think it's time to send out a fresh batch of e-mails, letters, and phone calls to any remaining local advertisers in our respective areas. I think it would be good to remind them that we haven't forgotten. Also, if anyone hasn't yet written and sent a paper letter to your local stations that carry his show, now would be a great time to do so.

This thread explains how to go about it effectively:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002374653

[Ruby the Liberal]

19. Lawrence O'Donnell is leading with this for anyone who gets MSNBC and wants to watch. nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

28. I am

[zelduh]

33. You actually can watch it on your computer

http://blog.livenewschat.tv/rockinroosters/

[Ruby the Liberal]

45. Nice link - thank you!!

Audio is very clear and believe it or not - synced with my TV audio when I launched it.

Appreciate the post.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

20. He was out today - had a substitute. Perhaps he is toast.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

24. Will the giant talking Rectum have the guts to come back on?

Up to now, he's been playing down the loss of sponsors as if it's no big deal. Limbaugh has an ego larger than his morning bowel movement. I wonder how long he'll be out.

[certainot]

34. he announced friday he had a charity golf tournament monday. tomorrow will tell.

[alp227]

22. OUCH

In the meantime, now that Thom Hartmann moved ahead by 3 hours, I may have some time to peek at my local Limbaugh affiliate (as well as the others I can hear locally from a distance) just for the watered-down commercial breaks. Haha.

[WillyT]

23. Lawrence Covering It Coming Up...

& Rec !!!

[dsharp88]

25. Lifelock and Lear Financial stick by Limbaugh.

What does that say about the people who run those companies?

[Major Hogwash]

39. Well, one thing it says about Lifelock and Lear Financial is that they are clueless.

And any business that is run by someone this fucking stupid will never get 1 cent of my business.

[anti-alec]

63. Lifelock CEO got himself indentity thefted a few times

when he was exposing his SSN on TV a couple of years ago.

He's an idiot.

And I heard that he had to settle a couple of lawsuits.

http://bizsecurity.about.com/b/2010/03/17/lifelock-settles-lawsuit.htm

[jillan]

26. Is it true that he took today off from work?

[babylonsister]

44. Yes, "this slut votes", and ROCKS!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

47. Please don't change your name, sister.

[babylonsister]

50. ??? Why? nt

[ChairmanAgnostic]

71. to Babylon"s@@@"

warped humor often gets lost in space.

[babylonsister]

72. I'm still lost, but

thanks for the explanation? Babylon's ass?

[lpbk2713]

27. I'm looking for the day ...

when OxyRush takes his ball and bat and goes home and cries his puffy
little eyes out on his pillow and swears to never come back again.


Oh please let it be.

[Liberalynn]

68. I'll give you an Amen to that!

[titaniumsalute]

29. 16 years in talk radio

and I have never seen anything like this EVER. Wow! Now he really stepped into a shit sandwich.

[47of74]

41. Kind of hard for him to step in one...

....when he is one!

[Lex]

35. I suppose Faux News is getting a show ready for him. nt

[sarcasmo]

37. He would fit right in at faux news.

[anti-alec]

64. Oh boy. Remember this?

https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=rush+limbaugh+show#q=rush+limbaugh+show+tv&hl=en&safe=off&prmd=imvnso&source=lnms&tbm=vid&ei=-F1fT9v_JIXEgAfpzbiTCA&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=4&ved=0CAsQ_AUoAw&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=7b2d5c6f479cf85&biw=980&bih=555

(I won't expose you to the youtubes of him here, so I simply showed you a way to see what I am referring to)

"America Held Hostage Day xxx" When Clinton was in office.

That kind of crap.

[nolabear]

38. Doin' the Happy Happy Joy Joy Dance

[Aerows]

40. That was so cute!

I liked it

[WillyT]

46. Oh Man... Ren & Stimpy... It's Been Too Long...

"You bloated sacks of protoplasm."





& Rec !!!

[Snarkoleptic]

42. Mmmmm...

Tasty, tasty limbaugh tears!

[Marie Marie]

48. He can claim that he is going to be fine all he wants but we all know

that way down deep inside his evil heart, he knows that he is in deep doo-doo. He is just hoping that America's short attention span will be his saving grace. I pray that he is wrong - it's way past time to send him and his hate speech packing. Buh-bye you bloated piece of filth.

[Julian Englis]

49. MSNBC's discussion on the story, with analysis

MSNBC's discussion on this:
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/the-last-word/46713460/#46713460

The original story from Radio Information:
http://www.radio-info.com/news/rush-syndicator-tells-newstalk-affiliates-not-to-run-its-barter-spots-for-2

[Left Coast2020]

51. Someone Please Help Me!!!!

I just got a part-time painting job with this dude who is an absolute Limp-butt follower. He asks me if I listened to him recently (I tell him I don't have a radio). Then he tells me he thinks the schools get too much money. Then, then other day (Monday) he asks/tells me, or trys to come up with assine crap democrats are the reason we are in this economy. I finally got the nerve to tell him his dumbass buddy George did it.

But I don't know how to respond to this apparent moron. Does anyone have any idea how I should deal with this f'ing idiot? He admitted he only had a high school education. During lunch, I told him that there are some excellent classes at Sac. State (Sacramento CA.) on world history and government--hinting he needs to get a brain. But what else can I do to counter his stupidity?

And yes, I am looking for another job as this is only to keep some income coming in. And if you are in Sacramento, I am looking. Thank you.

[Puzzler]

52. On the other hand...

... they may be hoping that a two week hiatus will slow down the boycott activity.

If this is the case, I hope it backfires on them.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

54. Awesome.

Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

[Jack Rabbit]

57. Poor Rush. This couldn't have happened to a nicer Neanderthal.

!!

[Botany]

59. You can't drop us as sponsors we are going to suspend you as an advertiser first

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[yellowcanine]

61. Couldn't they just have him talk more to fill up the time?

[Hubert Flottz]

62. I heard Bag Balm was pulling out too.

Along with doctor kochknocker's crab louse ointment and see-alice's bathtub de-greasing cream. Joining Kours “beer”, turd nugent records, church of the ladder day ain'ts and new, Zombie brand “home protection” ammunition.

[essaynnc]

65. Wonder if it's a coincidence.....

but the local talk radio station just decided today to change their format to (something else). They had Bortz, Savage, and a few other loudmouths, as well as an assortment of other general interest talk show. I think they're heading to easy listening!!!!! Co-incidence or .. Karma????

[Liberalynn]

69. Seems like its possible to me!

One things for certain, the "air "in your area just got fresher!

[Vincardog]

67. 0 signatures needed now to remove Limp 25016 signed already

NATURES NEEDED BY APRIL 03, 2012 TO REACH GOAL OF 25,0000TOTAL SIGNATURES ON THIS PETITION25,016

[Scurrilous]

70. K & R

[Grey]

73. Two weeks, Just a blip...

He makes $40 million a year....