BLOCK ISLAND, RI — If talk radio is Rush Limbaugh reacting to the Derek Chauvin verdict, it’s time for a new plan. Better yet, how about an old plan? While exasperated EIB affiliates – other than iHeart stations that have no choice – are exploring various would-be syndicated successors, is anyone reverting these hours to local? Rush broke new ground. Before stations took the leap, the only major satellite-delivered talk daypart was Larry King’s overnight show. In 1980, Mutual (dee-boop) gave affiliates a free dish! Even with Larry’s gift, only the wee hours were “safe” for non-local programming, until Rush. Repeatedly Rush explained – to us in convention keynotes, and on-air – that, first-and-foremost, he was an entertainer, holding our attention through “obscene profit-making time-outs” sold “at confiscatory rates.”