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damnedifIknow

(3,183 posts)
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 08:18 PM Jun 2015

Rush Limbaugh’s Death Spiral Continues As He Gets Demoted To Low Rated Boston Station

The end is coming for both Rush Limbaugh and conservative talk radio as Limbaugh has seen his show demoted and shipped off to another low rated small station. Boston has become the latest city to send Limbaugh into a dark corner of the radio dial."

The good news for Rush Limbaugh: One month after being notified he was getting dumped by his Boston talk radio host station, the talker has a new AM home in the city.

The bad news: The station currently boasts a 0.6 rating, trails four non-commercial stations in the market, and becomes yet another big-city, cellar-dwelling outpost that Limbaugh is forced to call home.

The station, WKOX, is the type of “bottom-rung” affiliate that Limbaugh was rarely associated with during his halcyon days as the king of talk radio. But those days seem to be dwindling as the Boston fall from grace has previously played out for Limbaugh in places like Los Angeles and Indianapolis. In each instance, Limbaugh exited a prosperous, longtime radio home and was forced to settle for an also-ran outlet with miniscule ratings.

*Rush Limbaugh is in a media death spiral, and if Fox News can’t attract younger viewers, they are destined to follow in Limbaugh’s footsteps."

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/06/17/rush-limbaughs-radio-death-spiral-continues-demoted-rated-boston-station.html

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Rush Limbaugh’s Death Spiral Continues As He Gets Demoted To Low Rated Boston Station (Original Post) damnedifIknow Jun 2015 OP
Too bad HassleCat Jun 2015 #1
*Had* millions of people damnedifIknow Jun 2015 #2
Hope so HassleCat Jun 2015 #3
Can't end soon enough! calimary Jun 2015 #4
Unfortunately, he is still broadcasting from one of Atlanta's favorite AM stations. n/t RebelOne Jun 2015 #5
WKOX - TheCowsCameHome Jun 2015 #6
Hate isn't selling the way it used to, and that's a good thing! Initech Jun 2015 #7
Technically, it's a Latin Music station as of right now ProudToBeBlueInRhody Jun 2015 #8
Limbaugh will continue to spew hate, even for a somewhat smaller audience. Contrary1 Jun 2015 #9
Are his listeners so stupid that they pintobean Jun 2015 #10
Calling him the #1 talk show host is akin to boasting about the #1 abacus. LanternWaste Jun 2015 #11
 

HassleCat

(6,409 posts)
1. Too bad
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 08:26 PM
Jun 2015

Too bad this guy has been with us since the 1980s. I have to wonder bout my country when somebody such as Limbaugh rises to fame and fortune, and has millions of people hanging on his every word.

 

HassleCat

(6,409 posts)
3. Hope so
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 08:33 PM
Jun 2015

I'd like to think the pendulum is swinging back the right way. Things certainly got much worse than I ever expected. Maybe we're in for some relief from the paranoid right wing fantasies that dominated for so long.

calimary

(81,610 posts)
4. Can't end soon enough!
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 08:39 PM
Jun 2015

Unfortunately, even when he's out of luck on the radio, he can still laugh all the way to the bank. Too bad we can't do something about THAT, too.

Initech

(100,152 posts)
7. Hate isn't selling the way it used to, and that's a good thing!
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 09:17 PM
Jun 2015

Only a matter of time before that turd is flushed down the drain! And when that happens, I too will drink a Bud Light Lime like John Oliver did because it will taste like champagne!

Contrary1

(12,629 posts)
9. Limbaugh will continue to spew hate, even for a somewhat smaller audience.
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 12:45 PM
Jun 2015

Since boycotting sponsors seems to work, perhaps the advertisers on these “bottom-rung” affiliates should be next.

 

pintobean

(18,101 posts)
10. Are his listeners so stupid that they
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 12:52 PM
Jun 2015

don't know how to change the station?

He's been in a "death spiral" for years, but somehow he's still the #1 talk radio show in the country. I always just smh when I see these stories. It makes us look foolish.

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
11. Calling him the #1 talk show host is akin to boasting about the #1 abacus.
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 01:11 PM
Jun 2015

His ratings have been consistently declining. His national advertisers have been consistently leaving. His demographics are getting older, and thus, represents fewer and fewer people. He's being relegated to second- and third-tier stations.

Hanging one's hat on the premise that he's the #1 talk show host is akin to boasting about the #1 abacus. The belief that popular culture changes overnight is an irrational thought. His irrelevancy has begun, and will gather speed up as his target demographic shuffles off this, out mortal coil...

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