{"id":2629,"date":"2013-05-06T08:46:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T12:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=2629"},"modified":"2013-05-06T08:46:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T12:46:32","slug":"rush-limbaugh-threatens-to-leave-network-over-blame-for-poor-ad-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/05\/06\/rush-limbaugh-threatens-to-leave-network-over-blame-for-poor-ad-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush Limbaugh Threatens to Leave Network Over Blame for Poor Ad Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Penis scientist<\/a> Rush Limbaugh is reportedly upset with executives at his flagship station WABC and its parent company, Cumulus. He’s so mad, in fact, that’s he’s reportedly threatening to leave the company.<\/a> Why? Because Lew Dickey, Cumulus’s CEO, is (probably correctly) blaming Limbaugh’s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153slut\u00e2\u20ac\u009d comments last year<\/a> for declining ad revenue at the company<\/p>\n

Several major advertisers dropped support for Limbaugh after the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153slut\u00e2\u20ac\u009d incident, but Limbaugh and a source who spoke with the Daily News<\/em> said the show’s earnings were \u00e2\u20ac\u0153very minimally impacted in the short term.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Politico, however, notes<\/a> that Dicky, on an August 2012 earnings call, said Cumulus’s top three stations lost $5.5 million. Some of those losses, Dickey said, were because of the boycotts agains Limbaugh. In a March 2013 earnings call, Dickey said the company was still suffering because of the comments, blaming them for roughly a third of the company’s revenue losses. <\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153There has been residual hangover … in terms of advertisers sitting out,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Dickey said in March. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Clearly that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s had an impact. … That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s something that we are dealing with on an ongoing basis.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But a source told<\/a> the New York Daily News, <\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lew needs someone to blame, (so) he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pointing fingers instead of fixing his own sales problem.”<\/p>\n

Another source spoke<\/a> to the Politico:<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a very serious discussion, because Dickey keeps blaming Rush for his own revenue problems,” the source close to the show told POLITICO. “Dickey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s talk stations underperform talk stations owned by other operators in generating revenue by a substantial margin. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not a single show issue… it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a failure of the entire station. And trying to blame Rush for that is not much of a business partnership.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So, would the top-rated radio host in the country actually leave the stations that broadcast him in his largest markets? Maybe. Less Rush would certainly be a good thing, though that seems very unlikely to happen.<\/p>\n

Regardless, this will make for a boring section in John Cusack’s movie<\/a> about Limbaugh. <\/p>\n

[Image via AP]<\/p>\n

To contact the author of this post, email taylor@gawker.com<\/em><\/p>\n

via Gawker http:\/\/gawker.com\/rush-limbaugh-threatens-to-leave-network-over-blame-for-493007045<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Penis scientist Rush Limbaugh is reportedly upset with executives at his flagship station WABC and its parent company, Cumulus. He’s so mad, in fact, that’s he’s reportedly threatening to leave the company. Why? Because Lew Dickey, Cumulus’s CEO, is (probably correctly) blaming Limbaugh’s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153slut\u00e2\u20ac\u009d comments last year for declining ad revenue at the company Several … <\/p>\n

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