Rush Limbaugh show bumped to smaller Philly station
The Philadelphia station that syndicates Rush Limbaugh's radio show, CBS' WPHT, have dropped the program. Limbaugh will be moved to a smaller, new Philadelphia station...
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh may be still feeling the fallout from his comments about a Georgetown Law student. After calling Sandra Fluke a “slut,” Limbaugh’s sponsors began abandoning the show in droves. Now the Philadelphia station that syndicates Limbaugh’s radio show, CBS’ WPHT, have dropped the program in favor of a local program The Michael Smerconish Show. Limbaugh will be moved to a smaller, new Philadelphia station, WKDN. The Huffington Post reports:
CBS Radio stated that Premiere Radio Networks, the company that syndicates Limbaugh’s program, notified the network that it had moved the show to a new station in Philadelphia, WKDN. The Times noted that the new station, WKDN, is smaller than WPHT, but is an FM station.
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“Premiere recently notified WPHT they will be syndicating Rush Limbaugh on a new station in Philadelphia. As a result, we are pleased to be able to now showcase Michael, who is a well-known and acclaimed broadcaster in Philadelphia, in this new time period.”
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