This is close to unthinkable – a big market AM radio station has told Premiere that they’re through with Rush Limbaugh. In the past, radio stations would push their grandmother off a cliff in her wheelchair for a chance to carry Rush. Usually when Rush moved between stations, it had been because Premiere \/ Clear Channel wanted to take Rush away from his long term affiliates like WSJS in Winston Salem, WRKO in Boston, KDKA-AM in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n
Today’s news is Entercom’s WRKO which took back Rush after Clear Channrl (iHeart) surrendered its Mexican Accordion Music station to take Rush away from WRKO – and changed their mind – WRKO won’t agree to whatever Rush’s demands are. Rush went to the brink with Cumulus a year ago – which now owns the core ABC radio stations that made up the original EIB network. Rush moved in New York to WOR-AM but his audience didn’t. They’re now apparently listening to Public Radio instead.<\/p>\n
The choices for Rush in Boston are slim. WBZ-AM is the best fit, but it is owned by CBS, which is probably not interested. Greater Media’s WTKK-FM gave up talk when they couldn’t get Howie Carr. WMEX-AM would probably be interested – that was the station Howie went to for a month or two. WXKS (the station where Rush went briefly) is now carrying Bloomberg Radio, still owned by iHeart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is close to unthinkable – a big market AM radio station has told Premiere that they’re through with Rush Limbaugh. In the past, radio stations would push their grandmother off a cliff in her wheelchair for a chance to … Continue reading