[BC] Building an audience

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um,

Wasn't Paul Harvey big before Limbaugh? At his peak I'm sure he was in every
major market with tens of millions of listeners. I think some peeps give the
oxycodone prince a little too much credit. Good old fashioned fascism is all
it took to create Rush wing radio.

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> Subject: Broadcast Digest, Vol 9, Issue 42
> 
>> Could it be safely said that if Rush didn't create the clamor, the
>> others would not have made it to where they are now?
> 
> Yes and no. Possibly maybe. The rise of Talk Radio to a dominant
> format can be linked to Limbaugh. AM may be in trouble but Talk
> isn't. However, if there hadn't been a Rush there would have been
> someone else. For all we know it could have been a raving Liberal if
> he had been entertaining. We had a Liberal well before Rush. At ABC
> we had Michael Jackson (the one with two gloves). We syndicated him
> for years before Rush. Trouble was, he was genteel. He had a South
> African accent (mistaken for British) and actually had guests and
> insulted no one. Rush came along and took the time slot just before
> Michael, banged pots and pans, did parody songs and insulted every
> minority he could find.