The Southern Ontario/WNY Radio-TV Forum / Rush who?

**Posted by Holliday** September 25, 2022 11:36 am

This rings true.

**Posted by g121** September 25, 2022 12:42 pm

+5 ..

@Alex Jones .. this is your future ..

**Posted by Hansa** September 25, 2022 2:28 pm

Limbaugh has been forgotten about as quickly as Father Coughlin.

**Posted by Dial Twister** September 25, 2022 6:26 pm

https://thedailytermite.wordpress.com/2021/08/20/rush-limbaugh-claims-that-hell-is-the-place-for-real-americans-says-all-patriots-should-join-him-there/

**Posted by 67GreenRambler** March 14, 2025 4:46 pm

Worth mentioning that 15 weeks after this post a posthumous book of Rush Limbaugh on-air expositions was #10 on the NY Times bestseller list.

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**Posted by paterson1** March 14, 2025 6:42 pm

Rush Limbaugh was only a big deal on American radio. In Canada virtually nobody listened to him and no stations carried his show. So other than appearing on the TV news when he said something outrageous, ordinary Canadians knew next to nothing about him. So his impact on radio here was more or less zero.

**Posted by Hansa** March 14, 2025 7:41 pm

67GreenRambler wrote:
Worth mentioning that 15 weeks after this post a posthumous book of Rush Limbaugh on-air expositions was #10 on the NY Times bestseller list.

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The post may have been a bit premature but it's certainly true now. A lot of that is the ephemeral nature of radio. Old movies and TV can gain new fans decades later due previously to reruns and rentals and now to YouTube and streamers but radio just doesn't have the same afterlife. How many people are going to listen to old Limbaugh recordings or old recordings of any talk radio shows or DJs?

**Posted by darcyh** March 15, 2025 11:17 am

paterson1 wrote:
Rush Limbaugh was only a big deal on American radio. In Canada virtually nobody listened to him and no stations carried his show. So other than appearing on the TV news when he said something outrageous, ordinary Canadians knew next to nothing about him. So his impact on radio here was more or less zero.

WJR 760 Detroit, a 50KW clear channel signal gets quite far into Southern Ontario, WTAM 1100 Cleveland another 50KW frequency, 930 WBEN Buffalo 5KW, WSGW 790 Saginaw MI 5KW and WMIC 660 time delayed by 2 hours with 1KW all carried Limbaugh. In the car it was easy to pick up the show in southwestern Ontario usually from WJR. Once you got past London heading east it became harder until you got within range of WBEN. I do not believe Limbaugh was ever on satellite radio probably by choice.

Eventually The Dan Bongino Show occupied the time spot of noon - three pm on many of the stations that carried Limbaugh. Yesterday, March 14, 2025 was Bongino's last show. He was hired as a Deputy Director of the FBI.

**Posted by paterson1** March 15, 2025 12:07 pm

Yes, Rush was available on border stations like the one's mentioned. But I have my doubts that many people actually tuned him in and listened to any extent on this side of the border.

**Posted by Chrisphen** March 15, 2025 2:25 pm

Hansa wrote:
67GreenRambler wrote:
Worth mentioning that 15 weeks after this post a posthumous book of Rush Limbaugh on-air expositions was #10 on the NY Times bestseller list.

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The post may have been a bit premature but it's certainly true now. A lot of that is the ephemeral nature of radio. Old movies and TV can gain new fans decades later due previously to reruns and rentals and now to YouTube and streamers but radio just doesn't have the same afterlife. How many people are going to listen to old Limbaugh recordings or old recordings of any talk radio shows or DJs?

As is common with conservative publishing, 95% of that book's sales were transacted in bulk by PACs and front companies for the sole purpose of it showing up on this chart. Most of the print run quickly wound up in thrift stores, and then the trash.

The soil above Limabugh's coffin is so saturated with piss that is grave could be classified as a Superfund site (I mean, if the EPA was still a thing), so it could be credibly argued that he left some kind of legacy. It's clear there no dittohead detail to protect his final resting place.

**Posted by darcyh** March 15, 2025 4:53 pm

paterson1 wrote:
Yes, Rush was available on border stations like the one's mentioned. But I have my doubts that many people actually tuned him in and listened to any extent on this side of the border.

I did a lot traveling in Southern Ontario and often listened to Rush on my way to and from the next destination. The show was a hell of a lot more interesting / entertaining than the programming on the cookie cutter FM stations and predicable, boring, left wing agitprop of the day on CBC (yawn). At least I got a chuckle out of Rush. His parodies were usually pretty good too. In areas like Windsor and Strathroy at stop lights I could often hear other drivers tuned in usually to WJR. Not saying he a big audience by any means, but there were more listeners than a lot of people think.

**Posted by 67GreenRambler** March 15, 2025 6:09 pm

Had the same experience stopped at a light on Guelph Line in Burlington. Was listening to Rush on WBEN, turned the radio off but still heard his voice coming from the car beside me!