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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDial Global: Rush Limbaugh's Sandra Fluke Rants Hurt Our Radio Business
Another radio company has said that Rush Limbaugh's comments about Sandra Fluke wound up hurting its bottom line.
Dial Global, a radio programming company, said on Thursday that it will remove itself from the NASDAQ stock exchange a sure sign of financial trouble. In addition, it had multimillion dollar losses in its latest quarter.
Dial listed a whole host of factors for its financial straits. But one of them was "advertisers' response to controversial statements by a certain nationally syndicated talk radio personality in March 2012."
That personality was, of course, Limbaugh, who called Fluke a "slut" for her birth control advocacy, prompting an advertiser exodus.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/16/dial-global-rush-limbaugh-sandra-fluke_n_2146265.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)Glad to see they've taken notice...
Pab Sungenis
(9,612 posts)I would love to see almost all nationally syndicated radio -- not just right wing talk but syndicated music programming as well -- gone from the air.
When people ask me why I hate Howard Stern, for example, I tell them it has nothing to do with content. It has to do with the fact that he showed that a nationally syndicated radio show could succeed in major markets. Since his "success" almost all independent voices have disappeared from the air. It has really annihilated the on-air job market and the talent pool.
The sooner stations have to actually program themselves again, the better chance we have of saving the medium.
Owl
(3,629 posts)Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)for Tax Resolution Services Inc. I sometimes go to his site and hit refresh to see who is advertising there. There are not many, I don't think.
http://www.taxresolution.com/
I think Life Lock also advertises on his site.
frylock
(34,825 posts)better luck tomorrow.
LTR
(13,227 posts)Stephanie Miller, Ed Schultz and Thom Hartmann, and I'm probably missing a few.
And I'm sure Limbaugh is killing political talk radio as a whole. Broadcasters are trying to get away from confrontational, polarizing radio. That's why they all seem to be flipping to sports. And it's not just liberal talk stations. Clear Channel recently nuked their Limbaugh affiliates in Boston and Atlanta. That's a big deal!