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WAUSAU, WI —Â Client stations are sharing feedback from listeners increasingly uncomfortable with âguidedâ Rush Limbaugh Show reruns. âMorbid,â âforced,â âclinging to the past,â and âickyâ are among verbatim comments, as, for instance â three months after Rush passed â aircheck clips react to President Bidenâs address to Congress.
Non-iHeart stations (allowed to) are bailing, most to one of a half-dozen other syndicated keepers of the flame. Some stations, however, are recovering the network inventory and reallocating Limbaugh cash clearance dollars to fund live-N-local hosts in his former hours. Last weekâs
column suggested a creative financing model.
Not necessarily career broadcasters
Whitney Hollingsworth, 46, wears a lot of hats in life. The Hardy native is the eldest of four; she has three children herself. She holds a degree in religion and philosophy from Roanoke College.
She makes her living selling hearing aids; her spouse is a downtown restaurant owner (Table 50 on Market Street). They live in the Grandin Court neighborhood of Southwest Roanoke.
But in annals of âThe Rush Limbaugh Show,â Hollingsworth may forever be known for another reason. As âWhitney in Roanoke,â she one day phoned the radio entertainer, whose show was carried locally on WFIR-AM 960. And she proceeded to call him out on his virulent anti-environmentalism.
Rush Limbaugh wrapped up his final show of 2020 with an emotional outpouring of gratitude for the support he's received during his battle with Stage 4 lung cancer.
presumably some damage to the limbaugh show. i can tell you it did a lot of damage to progressive talk radio, because a lot of advertisers right across the board said just pull me out of all talk radio. so i don't know limbaugh's numbers, but i do know on our side of it that progressive radio took a hit as a consequence of that. >> michael medved, let's go to you. i'm curious to get your take on who stands to lose more on this, cumulus or clear channel? >> i have absolutely no idea. i think both companies will be fine, they're huge, successful companies. i've got to agree here with thom hartmann. the trouble that i have with this entire logic that david brock was expressing is it's not a victory for anybody if all of a sudden you have less political conversation. i want my friend, thom hartmann's show to be successful. we disagree on everything, but i think it's great when people are listening to progressive talk radio. i think it's great when people
government. you want to play defense with fannie mae? no, you to the play defense against darrell issa? >> not particularly. note the contrast between those two clips. on cnn yesterday, he was trying to be stagemanlike. take back of what he said on the "limbaugh show." >> why did he pander to limbaugh? >> he was probably among friends and got a little loose. he wants to be seen less of a bomb thrower and more of a someone will who do the oversight. and redo the oversight, for now anyways. >> let's get the anti side. a.c.o.r.n. is that a big issue or a big fat target for the republicans. >> of course, but that's not on his list of these first sort of targets. >> no it's not. >> he's trying to start on substance. talking about wikileaks about fannie mae. he doesn't want this rap as the next dan burton, basically. >> shooting cantaloupes. >> yeah. >> or pumpkins or whatever it was. >> yeah. >> the government spends a lot
they're getting paid by the government. you want to play defense with fannie mae? no, you to the play defense against darrell issa? >> not particularly. note the contrast between those two clips. on cnn yesterday, he was trying to be stagemanlike. take back of what he said on the "limbaugh show." >> why did he pander to limbaugh? >> he was probably among friends and got a little loose. he wants to be seen less of a bomb thrower and more of a someone will who do the oversight. and redo the oversight, for now anyways. >> let's get the anti side. a.c.o.r.n. is that a big issue or a big fat target for the republicans. >> of course, but that's not on his list of these first sort of targets. >> no it's not. >> he's trying to start on substance. talking about wikileaks about fannie mae. he doesn't want this rap as the next dan burton, basically. >> shooting cantaloupes. >> yeah. >> or pumpkins or whatever it was. >> yeah. >> the government spends a lot