Comments on: Opposite Trajectories: Rush and The Newspaper Business http://www.bizzyblog.com/2008/07/02/opposite-trajectories-rush-and-the-newspaper-business/ The Business End of the Blogosphere Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:08:48 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: TBlumer http://www.bizzyblog.com/2008/07/02/opposite-trajectories-rush-and-the-newspaper-business/comment-page-1/#comment-123080 TBlumer Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:00:54 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/2008/07/02/opposite-trajectories-rush-and-the-newspaper-business/#comment-123080 #2, It's not too far from the truth that Rush on his worst day was getting higher rankings on shows that went on from Midnight - 3AM than Stewart and Colbert get even now on their best days. Rush couldn't crack the relatively limited media environment at the time. He said at one station that he had high-profit sponsorship lined up from one committed advertiser that would have left that station hugely more profitable for that time slot and was turned down. The idea that he was barricaded for ideological reasons is not an unreasonable one. That, and the idea that he influences 20 million people on the radio vs. what would be a few hundred thousand on TV -- the old cost/benefit consideration which he is pretty good at. I like him right where he is, both on the radio and the Net. To partially answer your question, <a href="http://charting.nasdaq.com/ext/charts.dll?2-1-14-0-0-548-03NA000000CCU-&SF:4|5-WD=539-HT=395--XTBL-" rel="nofollow">Clear Channel</a> closed today at $35.21. On 12.31.04, it closed at $32.31. That's about a 9% G-A-I-N, nothing special, but a word the newspaper business doesn't have in its vocab. #2, It’s not too far from the truth that Rush on his worst day was getting higher rankings on shows that went on from Midnight – 3AM than Stewart and Colbert get even now on their best days.

Rush couldn’t crack the relatively limited media environment at the time. He said at one station that he had high-profit sponsorship lined up from one committed advertiser that would have left that station hugely more profitable for that time slot and was turned down. The idea that he was barricaded for ideological reasons is not an unreasonable one. That, and the idea that he influences 20 million people on the radio vs. what would be a few hundred thousand on TV — the old cost/benefit consideration which he is pretty good at. I like him right where he is, both on the radio and the Net.

To partially answer your question, Clear Channel closed today at $35.21. On 12.31.04, it closed at $32.31. That’s about a 9% G-A-I-N, nothing special, but a word the newspaper business doesn’t have in its vocab.

]]> By: bill sloat http://www.bizzyblog.com/2008/07/02/opposite-trajectories-rush-and-the-newspaper-business/comment-page-1/#comment-123079 bill sloat Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:32:21 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/2008/07/02/opposite-trajectories-rush-and-the-newspaper-business/#comment-123079 I love to watch Limbaugh's cable TV show. Oh wait, it was canceled years ago because nobody ever watched. Tom, how are the radio stocks doing? Better or worse than newspapers? I love to watch Limbaugh’s cable TV show. Oh wait, it was canceled years ago because nobody ever watched.

Tom, how are the radio stocks doing? Better or worse than newspapers?

]]> By: dscott http://www.bizzyblog.com/2008/07/02/opposite-trajectories-rush-and-the-newspaper-business/comment-page-1/#comment-123078 dscott Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:24:50 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/2008/07/02/opposite-trajectories-rush-and-the-newspaper-business/#comment-123078 place your bets, place your bets, who's going down the bankruptcy hole first? place your bets, place your bets, who’s going down the bankruptcy hole first?

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