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In reply to the discussion: Rush drags right-wing radio over the cliff in massive sponsor exodus (updated) [View all]tsuki
(11,994 posts)14. I remember this happening during the Beck controversy.
There was, I know, at least one advertiser that said they would no longer advertise on any 24 hour news cycle network. I wondered at the time, these economic hard times, whether more might pull back.
Sounds like companies are examining their ad placements for bang for the buck, not bang/fizzle, no matter how "small" the fizzle is.
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Rush drags right-wing radio over the cliff in massive sponsor exodus (updated) [View all]
ProSense
Mar 2012
OP
this is the year that the end times say is the change point for us now. Consider what has
roguevalley
Mar 2012
#27
I don't think there'll be a true groundswell against lefty talkers like there has been against rush.
diane in sf
Mar 2012
#11
I think that a lot of the true listener statistics are finally starting to be made available by new
diane in sf
Mar 2012
#9
I wonder why it took advertisers so long to figure out they were sponsoring hate?
Initech
Mar 2012
#30
no one but haters and a few 'lost-causers' were listening to it. the perfect weapon- invisible
certainot
Mar 2012
#36
They knew it all along. Now they're being shown it might be bad for business.
2ndAmForComputers
Mar 2012
#39