To quote the letter: "Those are defined as environments likely to stir negative sentiment from a very small percentage of the listening public."

I doubt that those sponsors would be running away quite so fast if the response was "from a very small percentage of the listening public."

We will ONLY advertise on shows that will stir negative sentiment from a very small percentage of the listening public.

The DKos comments discuss this... Hope their take is right...note: I didn't go through all the comments.

can it be true that at long last these hate shows will fade away?

"likely to stir negative sentiment from a very small percentage of the listening public."

WTF..Very small percentage of the listening public my ass.

sends in emails, letters, makes phone calls, and boycotts and threatens other actions that would be adverse to the companies that advertise on the gas bags show.

Keep those cards and letters coming.

Get them all of the air.

happened: Arab Spring, Wisconsin, Iran and Occupy the World, the fall of the GOP through their exposure as asshats and now this. The Apocolypse is already here. The unveiling, the awakening. Thank god I lived long enough to see this happen.

That is the entire audience of these shows.


Lying to the very end.

sponsers don't cave to 'a very small percentage o fthe American public'. Hell, 'a very small percentage' wouldn't even register on their collective radars. This was considerably larger than 'a very small percentage' and they HAD to listen. A 'very small percentage' is the million mom march (or whatever the hell they called themselves) who tried to force Penney's to drop Ellen for no reason other than she is an out and proud lesbian.


Very small percentages don't change things. Substantial percentages of unifed public outcry; THAT foces action.

Many of the same advertisers place ads on lefty talk shows, too. If they consider the righties controversial, they'll likely treat the lefties the same way, which could hurt good talkers like Thom Hartmann, Ed Schultz, Randi Rhodes and such.

I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think I am.

Maybe people will actually start to have conversations about issues on the radio--now that would be something! Instead of some blowhard telling people what to think, they'll start asking people what their views are!

That would be a fine paradigm as far as I'm concerned.

Also, the liberal hosts aren't as vicious or untruthful. The million women FB protest against openly gay Ellen Degeneres appearing in ads for Penny's never went anywhere because they never had the numbers behind them. rushbo has even offended large numbers of Republicans and conservatives with his latest sewage.

We truly have nothing comparable. There are a few liberal talk show hosts, yes, but no one who is truly left (socialist, communist). That is why the rise of Ronald Reagan was so easy in the 1980's - the left in this country was decimated in earlier decades. What we are discussing right now is barely left of center vs. radical right views. Thank goodness the pendulum might be starting to swing back a bit.

technologies. And since these right wing radio shows have been inflating their listener numbers for years, the public outrage makes a good excuse for discontinuing advertising on them. I expect the advertisers have been paying inflated rates for sponsoring these wingnut programs.

that Right Wing Radio is Hate Radio? I don't think so.

Freepers, you are losing. Time to convert.

the backlash was tremendous. This is a vile man who is widely disliked.

Harris Poll crowns Rush Limbaugh America's 'least favorite' political pundit
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002378764

Note: "political pundit"

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.

The last part of that paragraph is poorly written but I think that last sentence is defining the shows that the advertisers do want to sponsor; shows that are unlikely to stir negative sentiment in more than a very small percentage of the listening public.

nt

And do it with the power of the free market. How sweetly ironic.

Formerly Premiere Radio Networks, or PRN is an American radio network. It is the largest syndication company in the United States based on popularity of programming. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications and it is headed by Julie Talbott, who serves as president, content and affiliate relations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premiere_Networks

RW purveyors of hate and prejudice.

is the most protected blowhard ever. He should have been dropped a long time ago.

Yesereee, Trojan is going to have to design a 10ply steel Radial to protect this prick in the future!!!

Now, we're all forced to, since this is all over the news.

But without hate radio - where is he going to get his material from?

Oh wait - the Fox Ministry Of Propaganda gives him plenty of material every day.

to those it beat the crap out of every day.

That's the only difference.

Not only do they sponsor hate radio (American Family Association), they embrace it - they give money to known hate groups like the AFA, that's bad for business.