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| Lew Dickey |
A spokesman for Limbaugh earlier in the week challenged that
assertion, saying Cumulus CEO Lew Dickey was trying to blame Rush for the
shortcomings of his ad sales departments.
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Asked about this Tuesday on his quarterly investors'
conference call, Dickey named no names according to the NY Daily News, but
said, "We've had a tough go of it the last year. The facts are
indisputable over the last year."
In comments last May and again this March, Dickey said
advertisers had pulled away after Rush's widely publicized charge in February
2012 that law student Sandra Fluke was a "slut" for advocating
insurance coverage of birth control devices.
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| Rush Limbaugh |
Radio Ink quoted a Cumulus source as saying that 48 of the
top 50 radio advertisers don't want their ads to run on the Limbaugh or Sean
Hannity programs.
A Limbaugh spokesman over the weekend said that if Dickey
did not stop bashing his talent, Limbaugh might leave Cumulus stations when his
deal there concludes at the end of 2013.
That would not come as a surprise, at least in New York .
Limbaugh is syndicated through Clear Channel’s Premiere and
last year CC bought WABC's rival, WOR 710 AM.
So it has been widely expected Clear Channel would move
Limbaugh and Sean Hannity over to WOR, which has trailed WABC for several years
in the local talk radio ratings.
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