Industry Insider Says Limbaugh Responsible for "The End of Right-Wing Conservative Talk Radio"

[kpete]

WED MAY 08, 2013 AT 08:43 AM PDT
Industry Insider Says Limbaugh Responsible for "The End of Right-Wing Conservative Talk Radio"
byProgLegsFollow

"We’re watching the end of right-wing conservative talk radio. The genre is dying among ratings and dying among advertisers ... Rush is at the end of his career. His constituency is all wearing Depends. And he’s getting himself into trouble he doesn’t need. So can you put Humpty Dumpty back together again?

[...]

Sandra Fluke was simply the lightning that struck and hit an old building that collapsed. She didn’t do it. She helped to bring it down at the end, but it was falling apart on its own.

Look at the millennial generation. There’s 80 million of them coming of age. They don’t see color. They don’t see gender. And they’re civic minded: they don’t like bloviating. They don’t like yelling and screaming. So you tell me: how’s right-wing talk radio working for them?"

MORE:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/07/the-high-cost-of-rush-talker-bleeds-millions-from-his-carriers-as-toxic-talk-slumps-cumulus-seems-set-to-part-ways-with-rush-limbaugh.html
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/08/1207726/-Industry-Insider-Says-Limbaugh-Responsible-for-The-End-of-Right-Wing-Conservative-Talk-Radio

[onehandle]

1. The listeners are dying off. Radio itself is dying as Internet streaming grows.

And the fans of hate radio can barely use the Internet.

I haven't tuned into AM or FM for years, since Air America died and PBS became 'questionable.'

I stream Internet radio, iTunes Match, podcasts, and Spotify in my car.

[Junkdrawer]

2. And yet he's still one of handful broadcasted on military radio.

You tell me what that means.

[BadgerKid]

4. Where to start? n/t

[MattBaggins]

5. but rush broadcast daily all week is offset

by NPR poetry reading at 3am on sunday

[Scuba]

3. Who?

Never heard of him.