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MADem

(135,425 posts)
Thu May 21, 2015, 10:44 PM May 2015

GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE!!!!!!!!

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Rush Limbaugh dropped from WRKO[/font]


Conservative lightning rod Rush Limbaugh will no longer air on WRKO in Boston, the radio network that syndicates his show said in a statement.

“We were unable to reach agreeable terms for The Rush Limbaugh Show to continue on WRKO,” Premiere Networks said. The company did not provide details about why an agreement could not be reached.

The company said that information on the show’s final broadcast on WRKO would be announced at a later date.

Premiere Networks also indicated that Limbaugh would be back on the airwaves in Boston in the future.

“Rush Limbaugh airs daily in every measured media market in America, and we look forward to announcing exciting news for our Boston listeners soon.”....


http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2015/05/20/rush-limbaugh-dropped-from-wrko/OVCttvfl3KKIOhESj9rP2I/story.html?p1=Article_Trending_Most_Commented

The next trick is to KEEP HIM OFF the air in the Boston market....that bloviator just needs to go.

Oh, for the days when WRKO played "Top 40 crap!"
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maddiemom

(5,106 posts)
8. YES! I hope this continues until he's forever off the air.
Fri May 22, 2015, 01:16 AM
May 2015

Of course, Rushbo will still be filthy rich. Will his loss of influence hurt him more than loss of money? I sure hope so, but somehow I doubt it.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
9. There are people in the Commonwealth who truly believe that Howie's middle name is
Fri May 22, 2015, 01:21 AM
May 2015

'f-cking!'

It is a lunatic station--I wish they'd go back to playing top forty shit, like they did in the late sixties. http://wrko.org/

MADem

(135,425 posts)
12. I take that point!!!
Fri May 22, 2015, 02:53 AM
May 2015

Hard for people outside the Bay State to appreciate that 'dark humor' comment, but I know just whatcha mean....!

Jack Rabbit

(45,984 posts)
6. Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead!
Fri May 22, 2015, 01:06 AM
May 2015

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C Moon

(12,225 posts)
11. If only the world were Boston.
Fri May 22, 2015, 01:38 AM
May 2015

Although, I see him as a has-been anyway. The people that listen to him around me, seem to have a chip on their shoulders. I guess because they've had to live with 8 years of a Dem president.

There's an older "gentleman" (senior citizen) at my gym who's the type that walks down the center of an aisle and won't move an inch to the side for anyone. I heard him raving about how horrible Obama is, etc, etc, etc.

I saw him leaving the gym today with a huge set of headphones on, shaking his head as he walked. I'm guessing he was listening to some right-wing AM radio show.

I see him as the Rush listeners.

Or the guy who sits alone in his townhouse backyard area screaming at a friend over the phone—spewing racist slurs and AM radio anti-government phrases.

alp227

(32,068 posts)
17. He'll likely be on a weaker signal station 1510 WMEX
Wed May 27, 2015, 01:25 AM
May 2015

which was formerly a liberal station with call signs WWZN until around 2013. WMEX is Boston's home for Hannity and Savage.

merrily

(45,251 posts)
18. I don't listen to political talk radio. It's annoying enough when, in the car, I get subjected
Wed May 27, 2015, 01:29 AM
May 2015

to sports talk radio and have no reasonable way to escape it.

I don't watch Fox News, neither the one on Channel 34, or the Fox version of daily and nightly news on Channel 25. Or visit Republican message boards, unless I click too fast on a link then gets me there. Then I leave as soon as humanly possible. I suppose I should be more curious. I'm not.

alp227

(32,068 posts)
19. I know channel 25 in Boston is Fox TV (now owned by Cox Media not Fox)
Wed May 27, 2015, 02:18 AM
May 2015

Because Fox network traded WFXT to Cox in exchange for Cox-owned KTVU out here in San Francisco. But channel 34? Is that where Fox "News" is on your local cable system?

merrily

(45,251 posts)
20. The Fox News with Bill O'Reilly and 'em, yes. It's 34 and MSNBC is 37. Given where the 4 and the 7
Wed May 27, 2015, 02:22 AM
May 2015

are on my remote, avoiding 34 all the time is not easy, but I manage.

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