The Complete List Of Rush LimpBalls Advertisers... Including Miss America

[rsmith6621]

http://www.opednews.com/populum/printer_friendly.php?content=a&id=105004


These have already pulled theirs..... Quicken Loans, mattress retailers Sleep Train and Sleep Number, software maker Citrix Systems Inc., online data backup service provider Carbonite and online legal document services company LegalZoom.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/04/2675108/a-7th-advertiser-pulls-out-of.html#storylink=cpy

[Mimosa]

1. YAY! Hitting the blowhard where it hurts! n/t

[csziggy]

2. His 8 year contract with Clear Channel started in 2008

He's not going off the air any time soon unless Clear Channel buys him out. And Rush is wealthy enough to turn down any offer:

Rush Limbaugh is one of the most popular and highly compensated radio talk show hosts in the world with a net worth estimated at $300 million and an annual salary north of $40 million.

That’s right folks, controversy pays. After stints in Pittsburgh (where he went by the name Jeff Christie), Kansas City and Sacramento, the big man went national in 1988. Today he is a majority owner of his radio show, which receives over 14 million listeners per week. That’s down a tad from the peak of 20 million listeners in 2003, but it was enough to get Limbaugh a $400 million 8-year contract with Clear Channel that began in 2008.
http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/rush-limbaugh-net-worth/

[ClassWarrior]

5. Good. Then he impoverishes either himself or his employer by staying on the air.

Free market forces, Baby!!



NGU.

[The Wielding Truth]

11. Yep. The free market at work.

[titaniumsalute]

6. You have to consider a few things

1. Clear Channel (Premiere Radio Network) syndicates and sells the Rush Limbaugh show. If they start heavily feeling like he is a loss leader on salary versus income they will certainly start thinking about a removal. However, they would still have to settle. And that number could be a huge sum.

2. Frankly sponsors pulling doesn't really hurt Rush...but it does hurt his employer significantly. Say Premiere Radio (Clear Channel) has to pay Rush $40 mill per year and they start bringing in $30 mill year revenue...that is costing them huge to continue to carry Rush.

3. I think a better way to go than getting the national sponsors off is to go after the local affiliates. When they start losing money it hurts even more and they are more likely to make a chaneg to their programming. If Rush loses some affiliates it will cerate less ratings AND the national advertisers will be able to negotiate lower prices for their ads. Lower prices mean less revenue for Premiere Radio (Clear Channel.)

[Cleita]

3. I remember us doing this almost ten years ago and he's still here.

Many of the advertisers did remove their advertising, temporarily, due to that campaign. I don't know if this is the way to go. Maybe the occupy movement should occupy Clear Channel and demand he be removed from the air. I don't know if that will help either because they are sure to move another obnoxious asshole in his place. I'm afraid we are stuck with him until people stop listening to him and anyone like him.

[rsmith6621]

9. I Have Four Occupy Friend That Need Buddy Passes

So we can go an Occupy the sidewalks outside his studios.

So if you have a friend who works with the airlines I know the rules of pass travel let me know.

[Cleita]

12. Afraid I can't travel there even with free passes.

Got animals and a job that require my attention. But I thought for those who can, why not?

[titaniumsalute]

4. ProFlowers has also pulled their ads (at least for now)

[RockyMtnGuy]

7. No response from TaxResolution

"You don't want to fight this fight alone. You need experts. You need Tax Resolution Services, Co. If you owe $20,000 or more in back taxes, are under audit, or have unfiled returns, they can help." - Rush Limbaugh

Tell Michael Rozbruch, CEO how you feel:

http://www.facebook.com/taxresolution

https://twitter.com/#!/taxresolution

Keep calling their customer service number: 1-866-477-7762, tie up their lines!

[RockyMtnGuy]

8. Contact for LifeLock

LifeLock is still hanging on to Douche Limpbag's shirt tails...

Keep calling their customer service number: 1-800-543-3562, tie up their phone lines.

http://www.facebook.com/LifeLock

http://twitter.com/#!/LifeLock

email: [e-mail]

[underpants]

10. I love it all the way up to the apology. I for one will stop using any products that pull out.

Actual Facebook post on Rush's fb page

[tsuki]

13. The real win in this situation is the

fact that new sponsors will think twice before signing up, and if they sign up, they will want deep discounting.

I once asked a sponsor of RW radio why he signed with RW advertising and not LW. He told me that there was no downside to signing to RW, but if he sponsored LW, he was in for a world of hurt. He said this because he really did not care where his advertising appeared, but he looked for effectiveness.

The worm has turned. Today, if you sign up for RW, you alienate the LW, and vice-versa. There is no upside to partisan advertising.

Will advertisers return to Rush? Maybe some to appease the RW, but new sign ups will be thinking twice. Why automatically alienate a large portion of the target audience when you can use your dollars elsewhere.

My advice is to monitor new advertisers.