Boston radio station to drop Rush Limbaugh from airwaves
Rush Limbaugh and his fiery conservative viewpoints won’t be on WRKO airwaves for local Boston listeners in the coming future.
Premiere Networks, which syndicates his show, was “unable to reach agreeable terms’’ with the station. Premiere said in a statement:
We were unable to reach agreeable terms for The Rush Limbaugh Show to continue on WRKO. A final broadcast date will be announced in the near future. Rush Limbaugh airs daily in every measured media market in America, and we look forward to announcing exciting news for our Boston listeners soon.
Limbaugh remains on WRKO in the immediate. On Wednesday, Limbaugh could be heard calling Osama bin Laden a “lefty’’ based on recently declassified material and documents found in his Pakistan compound.
News-talk radio stations have struggled to attract national advertisers in recent years, partly as a result of liberal activist opposition to controversial comments made by conservative hosts, The Wall Street Journal reported in February. Limbaugh was at the center of that storm in 2012 when he called Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke a “slut’’ and “prostitute’’ for testifying to Congress that the university should provide insurance coverage for contraceptives.
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