Limbaugh Back On Top

Not that he ever really fell... but he did lose some advertisers after the Sandra Fluke comment.

I'm glad to hear this report. Never been an avid Rush Limbaugh listener, but the times I've heard him, I like what he has to say. And of course, lefties hate him so bad, that makes me like him even more.

Good news about Rush. He's a Great American.


Distributor: Rush Limbaugh doing ‘very well’

Limbaugh is drawing new advertisers in 2013. | AP Photo​

6/6/13 1:42 PM EDT

NEW YORK - Rush Limbaugh’s distributor on Thursday said there is no denying the conservative radio host’s controversial comments about Sandra Fluke hurt advertising last year — but 2013 is apparently a whole different ballgame.

This year, Limbaugh is drawing new advertisers and recovering well after the major boycott he faced in response to his broadcasts on Fluke, Premiere Radio senior vice president and director of talk radio sales Dan Metter told the Talkers New York 2013 conference.

There was certainly a dramatic impact on the advertising sales in the wake of Limbaugh’s comments, Metter noted, but he said that just drove the company to find new sources of ad revenues.

Metter, who repeatedly referred to the advertising boycott of Limbaugh as simply “the challenge,” said Premiere, a subsidiary of Clear Channel Media, focused its efforts on getting ads on air from entrepreneurial-based companies not handled by major ad agencies, such as LifeLock and LegalZoom.

“They’re not buying an ideology, they’re buying an audience,” Metter said.

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“Many of these companies, especially in this economy, need talk radio,” he said. “The endorsement of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Randi Rhodes and George Noory is gold to these guys. That builds their brands, makes their business. So where the challenge has been with regard to the controversy is we did have a little bit of a dip — a great deal of a dip in the second quarter last year after it happened — we’ve refocused and gone out after those entrepreneur based companies. And now, a year later, we’re doing very well.”

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Limbaugh’s program is still the highest rated talk radio show in the country.

Dial Global’s executive vice president of New York Sales John Murphy — which distributes shows from talkers such as Herman Cain, Bill Press and Thom Hartmann — added that advertisers today are simply scared of political talk radio after the advertising boycott. Talk radio has become so frightening for advertisers that even CBS Radio’s longtime talker Charles Osgood has been placed on a “do not buy” list, Murphy noted.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/...augh-doing-very-well-92355.html#ixzz2VTgZ5EdC

 

Another one o' dem odd post titles...

Limbaugh Back On Top
by
Smartmouthwoman

 

Yeah, Walt... appears the llbbies don't wanna talk about Limbaugh unless they're tearing him to shreds.

He actually looks pretty good in that OP pic. I've seen worse.

 

Like the old saying goes: "There's somebody for everybody".

 

he cleans up well for a drug addict. I guess if companies want to ally themselves with a misogynistic blowhard...that is fair game. He will continue to have the sheep that follow his every word and if that is all it takes to get people to give him money to spread his hate. That is capitalism.

 

Yeah, it's hard to dismiss Limbaugh when reminded he has the highest rated radio talk show in the US. Makes you feel kinda like the only ones in the room not to 'get it' huh?

 

On top? He's more of a taker than a giver.

 

What it tells me is that 47% of all Americans are nut jobs.

But then, I already knew that.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...-share-of-the-vote-you-guessed-it-47-percent/

 

So why is this man so important? I started reading one of his books...seemed full of himself, people seem to love or hate him, what makes him interesting?

 

I love Rush and I am as liberal as they come. I think him everyday for the slut comments. He got the Left rallied and helped propel Obama to a second term.

 

Oh good grief, he is a friggin entertainer folks, his fans (Dittoheads) will follow him no matter what he says or does. I listened to him every day for years, still listen at times, entertaining, yes, a Great American, hardly, just another citizen that found an easy way to make buckets of money.

 

Funny how that description fits more than just Rush Limbaugh, huh? Then we have Obama the Entertainer... pretending to be president.

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Obama being a complete lier will push people like him and Alex jones to higher ratings.

Who would have thought that Obama would be proving Alex Jones to right on so many issues.

 

He's doing a pretty good job of pretending...all that sitting in the oval office all day, with Presidential seals everywhere...man alive...he is convincing.
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On a serious note...if you think in the communication/technology/social media era we're going to be electing anything but entertainers from here on out...you'll be perpetually disappointed, and that is a sad fact.

Oh yeah...the OP

Rush is simply Archie Bunker....with writers

 

And what about Alex Jones. The left was calling him crazy. But Obama has just justified everything he was saying.

 

And sponsors.

Amazing how that simple fact ticks off lefties.

 

I'm not familiar with Alex Jones, I'll have to go do some research, and try to figure out what you may mean.

 

I dunno Smarty...

There was a time before the election, when Obama was vulnerable to defeat, and especially when the Sandra Fluke thing started getting noticed by liberal media...where the 53% of Americans who voted for Obama actually ever started to talk about Rush.

I think the Obama victory last November really sucked the life out of the urgency to get rid of Obama that Rush tries to evangelize. I don't think the left is even paying any attention to Rush, and that would explain the advertisers willingness to come back.

Whenever people/pundits on the right, after Obama's victory, try to convince people the left is done, or Obama is scared...it just seems all so desperate.

 

Here comes Honey Boo Boo is the highest rated TV show when it's on.

 

That's refreshing...it's hard to find righties willing to admit they get their information from him, or like him.

Usually it's the soft sell...something like "I listen to him now and again, and I agree with most of what he says, but I get my information from lot's of sources, right and left.

And that's just code for "I get all my news from Fox, Rush, Breitbart, Drudge, or Levin"...but they have such a horrible reputation for bias, I'm afraid to admit it"

 

Just so I get this right, the PR spokesperson for the company that syndicates and/or handles the advertising for RL says "Everything is great, no, really great, trust me!" means it's true?

I noticed they didn't offer any numbers, just saying they're "pacing" ahead of last year (when the RL scandal hit) in the second quarter after admitting January (or the whole first quarter) was slow.

What a joke. The RLS is still on the "no fly" list for major advertisers and advertising agencies, that's why they have to go after the smaller independent guys. I'm surprised most of his sponsors aren't coin dealers and bail bondsmen yet.

 

What really happened is most likely that the advertisers that got scared off, were replaced by entities like Chick-Fil-A, Lowes, or Bass Pro Shop types

But then part of me thinks....let them have their small victories, and even the ones they only just perceive....after all, November was such a profound rejection of the christian right, they may not be through all five stages of grief.

 

IMO RL lost about half his personal income over this. If the numbers were good you can be certain they would be putting them out and crowing over them. They don't because it's still bad and I don't see it ever recovering.

 

FYI: I am Left of Center, but not too far.

 

I LOVE LISTENING TO RUSH LIMBAUGH!

There. I admit it.

Proud of it.

So?