Limbaugh to Leave AM Station in Philadelphia

[kpete]

Source: New York Times

Limbaugh to Leave AM Station in Philadelphia
By BRIAN STELTER
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“The Rush Limbaugh Show” is leaving the dominant conservative talk radio station in Philadelphia, one of the biggest radio markets in the country.

In its place on the station, WPHT, will go “The Michael Smerconish Show,” hosted by Mr. Smerconish, a native of the city.

The move does not appear to be directly related to the recent ad boycott against Mr. Limbaugh, which was started after he repeatedly attacked Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown University law school student, on his three-hour show. Two of his roughly 600 affiliates dropped the show in the wake of those attacks.

Nonetheless, the move is likely to gain attention because Mr. Limbaugh’s show has been under scrutiny lately. On Monday, a new competitor, “The Mike Huckabee Show,” started broadcasting nationally in Mr. Limbaugh’s noon-to-3 p.m. time slot.

Read more: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/09/limbaugh-to-leave-am-station-in-philadelphia/?smid=tw-nytimestv&seid=auto

[Bozita]

2. Pizza?

[freshwest]

16. Cold, cheap pizza from Herman Cain coming right up...

[bemildred]

3. Much bigger, and denser too. nt

[Lost-in-FL]

4. Yup... I never knew someone could stack shit that wide, I tell you. nt

[Faygo Kid]

5. Hello and goodbye. What's a "bopne?"

Another finely educated dittohead whose visit here will be brief.

[Ruby the Liberal]

7. Apparently, it is something one "rhrews"

[pinboy3niner]

11. Seems to be 'Baggeronian for 'bone'

As in, "I've got a bopne to pick with you!" Best guess, anyway.

[bemildred]

15. Teabonics.

Feel free, I release it into the public domain ...

[pinboy3niner]

19. Perfect, lol!

[yardwork]

24. OMG....

[madinmaryland]

6. Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out!

[KamaAina]

9. He's dead, Jim

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=283260

[rurallib]

10. sure got his shots in while he was here, though

er ...... shot that is.
he shot a bopne

[HangOnKids]

13. Ever Notice The Common Theme Of These FuckWagons Adding Numerals to the End Of Their Names?

It is really amazing and such a give away!

[antigone382]

26. hey now...

You can call me a fuckwagon for having numbers at the end of my name...but don't you dare associate me with a teabagging dittohead!

[HangOnKids]

27. I trust that your numbers refer to a birthday

Numbers like that are not the giveaway, nor are numbers referring to a year. Something like Jackwagon442619 is more what I am talking about. Hey it's just a pattern I have seen here in the past few weeks YMMV.

[antigone382]

30. true enough...just giving you a bit of a hard time...

No actual offense taken, of course...



p.s. actually, the numbers in my name are a not-that-hard-to-break code for my actual first name...

[crunch60]

31. hey, ditto for me.(not as in dittohead) I got numbers at the end of my name, no teabagger here.

[pinboy3niner]

12. The buzzards are now feasting on his bopnes

Picking them clean, even.

[mahina]

14. Rush, honey, is that you?

Agreed at least that Rush will explode any station's advertising base...that much is true.

[Pilotguy]

8. The trolls are getting desperate.

[polichick]

17. That's pretty good - Smerc isn't even a Republican anymore.

[IamK]

18. if you read the entire article, it appears Rush left them to get on live in Philly..

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/09/limbaugh-to-leave-am-station-in-philadelphia/

The owner of WPHT, CBS Radio, said in a statement on Monday afternoon, “Premiere recently notified WPHT they will be syndicating Rush Limbaugh on a new station in Philadelphia. As a result, we are pleased to be able to now showcase Michael, who is a well-known and acclaimed broadcaster in the market, in this new time period.”

Mr. Smerconish is a relative rarity on radio: a moderate. He has interviewed President Obama and has filled in for Chris Matthews on the MSNBC program “Hardball” a number of times.

His radio program is syndicated across the country, but until now WPHT has time-delayed it in Philadelphia. With the move by Mr. Limbaugh, it can be played live in his home market.

[pinboy3niner]

20. Looks like Limbaugh will move to Christian FM radio; it's Smerc who goes live

Still no indication of when this will happen.

[kestrel91316]

21. Awesome how the troll only got in a single post. And he put what looks like his real name

on his profile. Guess he doesn't know it lives on after him in DU3.

[drm604]

22. That doesn't look like a real name to me.

[alphafemale]

23. Someby the name he used has a blog in city he listed

Just sayin'

[Zax2me]

25. Nearly a half billion dollar he makes - does he have to give it back now?

For a RADIO host?!
UN
REAL
http://articles.businessinsider.com/2008-07-02/tech/30068553_1_radio-host-premiere-radio-networks-new-contract

[mactime]

28. Smerconish

I used to like his show. Used to have great book reviews and would interview the writers. Found this absolute gem after he interviewed the author A Secret Gift: How One Man's Kindness--and a Trove of Letters--Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression by Ted Gup

[PatrynXX]

29. and again jury removals are undemocratic no matter how much I disagree with the post

there's a lack of free speech on a democratic site This isn't the KKK room. on IRC... DU3 is just giving the right exactly what they want. zzzz

So of course whenever I see a jury decision I gotta leave the site for awhile. back to the DU2 drawing board.