Show told its affiliate radio stations that they are suspending national advertising for two weeks. rush limbaugh is normally provided to affiliates for free in return for running several minutes of national advertisements provided by premier each hour. these ads are called barter spots. these spots are how premier makes its money on the rush limbaugh radio show and other shows it syndicates. joining me now on the phone is tom taylor, editor of radioinfo.com. tom, tell us what you broke this story tonight on the limbaugh suspension of national advertising. this comes after a weekend of more criticism of rush limbaugh. what does this mean to his program? well, hi, lawrence. first of all, let me explain what it does not cover.
Makes its money on the rush limbaugh radio show and other shows it syndicates. joining me now on the phone is tom taylor, editor of radioinfo.com. tom, tell us what you broke this story tonight on the limbaugh suspension of national advertising. this comes after a weekend of more criticism of rush limbaugh. what does this mean to his program? well, hi, lawrence. first of all, let me explain what it does not cover. in fact, i m looking at the note from premier networks which is owned by clear channel, by the way. what it says is this suspension does not apply to in-program commercials provided by premier within any of its live news talk programming. so you re right, these are what it does apply to, what it does talk about is the spots that are barter spots. and these are sort of running during the week. and i think i suspect, although premier doesn t really talk about why they did this, i suspect that they just want to make sure that nothing happens, that there s no friction on
There today for on the republican side would take women back decades. female lawmakers and voters are revolting against the anti-woman legislation across the country. mean while, the biggest anti-woman voice in america continues to attack. rush limb water was back at it again today. this is how he characterized a female washington post humor columnist today. ms. petrie, i don t know who feeds you your information. i have a pretty good guess. but you might you might want to double check here because you ve written something that s patently false, it is an out and out lie, complete with your b-i itchy opinion in it. and it is untrue. the guy can t help himself. rush can t hide his negative altitude toward women. he also can t hide the trouble his show is facing as of late. this is what you heard today, if you were list.ing to the rush limbaugh radio show in the largest media market in the country. we barely scratch ready the service on the eib network
Rush claims sponsors have not runaway but silence speaks louder than words. on the abc web stream, the show had five minutes and 33 seconds of dead air where commercials are supposed to be. of the 86 ads during the broadcast, 77 of them were unpaid public service announcements donated by the ad council. now, the american heart association has asked for their psas to be pulled from the limbaugh radio show immediately. today, congressman tim ryan of ohio introduced a bill to get limbaugh off the armed services radio network which, of course, plays to our troops. right wingers are still trying to excuse limbaugh for his actions. they are calling for a bill maher to be punished for offensive comments against women and they want the obama-supporting super pac to
There today for on the republican side would take women back decades. female lawmakers and voters are revolting against the anti-woman legislation across the country. mean while, the biggest anti-woman voice in america continues to attack. rush limbaugh was back at it again today. this is how he characterized a female washington post humor columnist today. ms. petrie, i don t know who feeds you your information. i have a pretty good guess. but you might you might want to double check here because you ve written something that s patently false, it is an out and out lie, complete with your b-i itchy opinion in it. and it is untrue. the guy can t help himself. rush can t hide his negative altitude toward women. he also can t hide the trouble his show is facing as of late. this is what you heard today, if you were listening to the rush limbaugh radio show in the largest media market in the country. we barely scratch ready the service on the eib network today, for example sit