Cheap Channel Doubles Down On Rushbo...

[KharmaTrain]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hR544RbkKxFyK5Oxn3tGYvfKuzFg?docId=ab592135e76f4904a38f065f2203db5e

Advertisers and some radio stations may have abandoned Rush Limbaugh for calling a Georgetown law student a "slut." But the CEO of the radio company that distributes Limbaugh's show, Clear Channel, says he's sticking with the conservative talk show host, calling him the "king" of radio.

Bob Pittman told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday that the outrage over Limbaugh's comments last month was "part of the normal day-to-day of talk radio." He also noted that Limbaugh apologized for the first time in 30 years.

Speaking publicly for the first time since the controversy erupted late last month, Pittman said that advertisers leaving the program did not have a major impact on the company and there has not been a major move among stations to drop Limbaugh.

Until now, media inquiries about the show had been directed to Clear Channel's talk show syndication subsidiary, Premiere Radio Networks.

Yep...they think the shitstorm has blown over and its back to business as usual...

Discuss...

[Gothmog]

1. He has no choice

Limbaugh has a contract with four or so years remaining on it. Clear Channell is stuck with Rush until that contract runs out.

[daleanime]

2. I still can't believe that they getting away with calling "that"....

an apology.

[monmouth]

3. I take this as desperation. Things are NOT all that great but putting on

a face and saying otherwise is the new strategy..

[GopperStopper2680]

4. Unfortunately...

..The Right has never been particularly concerned with the opinions of the general population. That goes for everything from the White House down. It wouldn't matter most likely if you handed them a petition with millions of names on it. They would frame it and say at the end fo the day "Well, we did a good job! Look how many people we offended!" Still, we have to TRY.

[gratuitous]

5. The whole thing was supposed to have blown over by now

But it seems that some grudge-holders continue to keep an eye on advertisers, blowing the whistle on them for spending their ad dollars on this vile human being's radio program. I'm sure Clear Channel and Premiere Radio have quite a bit of money on hand, but even they don't have bottomless pockets. Carrying a program for three hours a day five days a week with no ad revenue coming in isn't a sustainable business model.

Keep the pressure on. Nobody has the right to space on the public airwaves. The vile human being can just go back home and say anything he wants to the maid (when she isn't out scoring hillbilly heroin for him). He doesn't belong on the public airwaves.

[JDPriestly]

6. Here in LA, I used to listen all day to KTLK,

but I switched to KPFK in part because KTLK added a Wall Street Journal/Murdoch show in the afternoon.

I miss Thom Hartmann, but KTLK was the only am radio that featured progressive talk, and, as a Clear Channel station, it chose to feature conservative shows. I want my old KTLK back. Too bad that Clear Channel has so much money and so much influence.

Doesn't Clear Channel have something to do with Romney?

[KharmaTrain]

8. Cheap Channel's Controlled By Bain Capital...

Millard's old vulture capital firm...

[fascisthunter]

7. just the beginning....