bubble. two of the most powerful voices of conservative talk radio may go off the air in many radio markets very soon. cumulus media, the second biggest broadcaster in the country, is planning to drop rush limbaugh and sean hannity from its stations by the end of the year. cumulus isn t commenting on the reports. in fact no one is. it still is debate about whether conservative talk radio and particularly rush limbaugh is losing the edge. joining me is mike medved, thom hartmann and michael harrison. michael harrison, let s go straight to you. there are two ways to look at this. one is that this is a big blow to conservative media if in fact rush and sean get dropped. the other way to look at this is this is simply people sorting out their negotiations in public and this is two people trying to resolve a deal and we can t read that much more into it.
two of the most powerful conservative voices on talk radio may go off the air of radio markets very soon. we re talking about rush limbaugh and joe hannity. as limbaugh quickly pointed out, this has nothing to do with his political agenda and everything to do with a business dispute as in the nation s second biggest broadcaster, cumulus radio no longer wants to pay for his syndicated program. nothing is going to change. you are going to be able to get this radio program on as many if not more radio stations down the road than it s on now, and what you re being treated to is just a public business negotiation. negotiations have been taken public by one side of this when i thought it was done, that it was over with. and that s folks, i would love i mean, i love inside baseball stuff and i would love to pass this on, but i must use proper business restraint here.