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Right wing radio host Rush Limbaugh signs 400 million dollar deal
Jul 2, 2008, 23:45 GMT
Los Angeles - The Democrats may be on the ascendancy on the national political scene but that hasn't stopped right wing radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh from signing an eight year syndication deal worth 400 million dollars.
Limbaugh, 57, is one of the most controversial figures on the US airwaves and his deal with Clear Channel Communications is the second-largest ever for a radio personality, ranking behind Howard Stern's five-year agreement with Sirius Satellite Radio in 2004 that netted Stern more than 500 million dollars.
According to the New York Times the deal pays Limbaugh 38 million dollars for eight years, plus a 100 million dollar signing bonus. The Rush Limbaugh show commands a weekly audience of nearly 20 million listeners on 600 stations, according to Premiere, which markets his program to stations and advertisers.
Limbaugh's existing contract was worth 285 million dollars over nine years and was due to expire next year. According to the Los Angeles Times Limbaugh's annual salary will be more than the combined annual salaries of the four best paid news anchors on network television.
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...how this man, year after year has such a tight following...
..as far as I can tell, he never falsified a document on a standing president either....
perhaps this is why the major networks are losing viewers in droves...?
This guy must just have liberals and their automatons, the mainstream media, wanting his head on a stick.
Nobody could possibly have his head on a stick. It is so firmly planted up his hemorrhoids that you can't get it out. What is that sucking sound? It's Rush breathing through his arse.
Limbaugh scores big, and just loves what he is doing.
You're darn right he loves what he's doing - he's laughing at everyone all the way to the bank. He is a bloated, know-it-all, who could care less about what anyone else thinks. More people hate him than like him but I think people just tune in to him to hear his rants.
I've never listened to his show. What station is it on?
I've read the previous comments and find it amazing that you are somehow oblivious top the fact that he is so popular and valuable because his views must be far more palatable than the usual, liberal, socialistic-leaning ideas of today's mainstream media.
Olberwomen, Christine Matthews must be hurting. All MSDNC hosts' salaries combined is still short of 400mil.
between Rush Limbaugh and Rotten Limburger? None. They both stink.
'Lumpbaugh' and O'Reilly - two of a kind - big-mouth, no-talent, know-it-alls!!!
You socialist phonies. Not a peep from you leftists about the hundreds of millions of dollars earned by your Castro loving Hollyweird leftists or your sports idols. Give me documentation where he lied. I want the date, where, article, time.
It would be muh shorter to find out where he tells the truth,let's not waste time and space.
Are you nuts? No one OWES you anything!! Rush's claim to fame is a big mouth and being a rabble rouser. And probably doing all that while under the influence of some of his drugs!
proves that a fool and his money soon part. One can only hope this blows up in Clear Channel's face.
Yeah yeah yeah, Rush'll laugh all the way to the bank while the weinies will sit and look for the next fashionable protest to get involved with.
Rush is certainly a successful entertainer. Will the unpopular, former V.P Cheney endorsement help Rush win any new friends and increase his influence on America? Rush… just don’t go quail hunting with Dick. Trust me on this tip.
Dave,
Dave,
“Rush Limbaugh Turns Himself In On Fraud Charge In Rx Drug Probe”
By Peter Whoriskey, Washington Post Staff Writer, Saturday, April 29, 2006; Page C01
Rush either lied when he pleaded guilty to fraud and said he was innocent, or he did commit fraud.
How can you tell when the drug addicted Rush Limbaugh was lying? His lips were moving.
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400 million....Jul 2nd, 2008 - 23:52:31
for that fat drug addict and his lies, distortions and verbal poison? This country has gone to the dogs.
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