{"id":26564,"date":"2013-07-29T19:19:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T23:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=26564"},"modified":"2013-07-29T19:19:41","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T23:19:41","slug":"rush-limbaugh-sean-hannity-getting-dumped-by-cumulus-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2013\/07\/rush-limbaugh-sean-hannity-getting-dumped-by-cumulus-media.html","title":{"rendered":"Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity getting dumped by Cumulus Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

Calvin’s Commentary: Monday, July 29, 2013<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong>: <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

FIRST DON’T PANIC! <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Just because it looks like the \u201cstupid germ\u201d has infected the media industry’s cockamamie executives’ brains (now they’ve really gone brain dead). And it’s not just about dropping conservatives from radio like Rush and Sean. Coming soon, NBC is dropping their #1 rated TV program \u201cThe Tonight Show with Jay Leno.\u201d Apparently the new motto is, if it leads, make it bleed, kill it \u2013 if people like it the best and it has a #1 top rating in listeners, get rid of it. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

But there’s no need to worry.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Here’s what to do…<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Just click over to Watchwoman’s blog posting for extensive information on how to not only listen to Rush and Sean 24\/7, but many other conservative talkers \u2013 day and night \u2013 weekends and holidays \u2013 24\/7\/365 until your ears fall off! <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>\u201c<\/span>Listen to Conservative Talk Radio 24\/7 from Computers, Electronic Devices\u201d<\/span>
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And it’s not just on your computer where you can listen, but on all those newfangled-dangled phones, IPads, notebooks, etc. (ad infinitum) that do practically everything for you except pay your taxes!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u25ac <\/span><\/strong>Donna Calvin<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong> \u25ac Monday, July 29, 2013<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Rush Limbaugh vs. Cumulus Media: Who’s dumping whom?<\/h1>\n
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#2 in listener ratings: Sean Hannity (left) \u00a0 \u00a0 – * – * – * – \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 #1 in listener ratings: Rush Limbaugh (Right)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Politico<\/em> reports that America’s No. 2 radio network is dropping Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. But there may well be more to this story.<\/p>\n

Rush Limbaugh and Cumulus Media, the company that distributes the influential conservative’s talk-radio show in some 40 major markets, are headed for divorce, says Dylan Byers at Politico<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Citing “an industry source,” Byers says that Cumulus \u2014 the No. 2 radio network in the U.S., behind Clear Channel \u2014 won’t renew either the contract of Limbaugh or fellow conservative talker Sean Hannity at the end of the year. This is “a major shakeup for the radio industry,” Byers adds<\/a>, and it’s hard to argue with that. Limbaugh and Hannity have the biggest and second-biggest<\/a> talk radio shows, respectively, in the country. By a lot.<\/p>\n

That also makes Limbaugh and Hannity very expensive, and this reported move by Cumulus to dump the two stars is about money. The two radio talkers are represented by Premiere Networks, a Clear Channel division, and Premiere reportedly wants more money than Cumulus thinks Limbaugh and Hannity are worth. Cumulus declined to comment on the rumors.<\/p>\n

Limbaugh and Cumulus CEO Lew Dickey have been effectively negotiating in public since May, when Limbaugh threatened to leave<\/a> Cumulus because Dickey had blamed Limbaugh’s 2012 on-air insults<\/a> of Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke for driving advertisers away and costing Cumulus millions of dollars. Now, Limbaugh critics are calling this apparent breakdown in negotiations a win for the post-Fluke boycott.<\/p>\n

Eric Boehlert at Media Matters<\/em>, one of the boycott’s lead proponents, is practically giddy:<\/p>\n

“The boycotters did it,” agrees Jason Easley at Politicus USA<\/em><\/a>. They got Cumulus to dump not only Limbaugh, but also Hannity. “Without the public pressure, bad publicity, and shame that the boycott brought on to his advertisers, Rush Limbaugh and Cumulus would probably still have a happy marriage.”<\/p>\n

If Politico<\/em>‘s report is true, “Limbaugh’s contentious and seemingly inevitable divorce from Cumulus Media and WABC has moved another step closer to reality,” says David Hinckley at the New York Daily News<\/em><\/a>. But that doesn’t mean that Cumulus is dumping Limbaugh. “New York radio observers have been expecting for the past year that Limbaugh and probably Hannity would leave WABC, which is owned by Cumulus, for rival WOR,” recently purchased by Clear Channel.<\/p>\n

That’s an important distinction, says Hinckley<\/a>. And if Limbaugh goes to Clear Channel, it’s not like he’ll be off the airwaves. His legions of fans would just have to change the presets on their radios.<\/p>\n

And Cumulus wouldn’t drop conservative talk radio altogether \u2014 it would just switch personalities, says Byers<\/a>. In recent weeks, “Cumulus has been quietly reaching out to radio talent agents and political insiders about new local and regional station hosts to fill some of the airtime that will be left vacant by Limbaugh and Hannity,” he says<\/a>. “Cumulus is also expected to move some of its existing talent \u2014 which includes Mike Huckabee, Mark Levin, and Michael Savage \u2014 into one of the slots.”<\/p>\n

“Cumulus has already tried to position Huckabee as a ‘safe’ alternative to Limbaugh,” says Adam Martin at New York<\/em><\/a>: “A conservative commentator who wouldn’t call people ‘sluts’ on air.” Huckabee doesn’t have a huge following, according to Talkers<\/em> magazine’s most recent analysis<\/a>, but Savage and Levin do.<\/p>\n

Readers should take Politico<\/em>‘s entire report with a healthy grain of salt, says Radio Ink<\/em><\/a>. “A story like this always seems to pop up around the quarterly earnings call,” and it’s most likely a negotiating tactic as Cumulus and Premier haggle over a price. For what it’s worth, “a source tells Radio Ink<\/em> nothing has been decided and a deal could even be worked out in the next month or so.”<\/p>\n

Maybe it will. Maybe it won’t. But my guess is that Limbaugh and Hannity have the upper hand. If Premiere asks too high a price from Cumulus, Clear Channel can’t really then pay Limbaugh and Hannity less than its subsidiary was demanding. But even if neither Clear Channel nor Cumulus are willing to pay up, Limbaugh has a large fan base that would follow him to satellite radio or the internet. Glenn Beck seems to be making a tidy sum<\/a> on his own.<\/p>\n

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