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Title: The Music of Rushbo's Silence
Post by: Stormwarden on March 09, 2012, 02:26:32 am
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/08/1072469/-Dead-air-flocks-to-advertise-on-Rush-Limbaugh-s-show?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed:+dailykos/index+(Daily+Kos

The entire first hour of his program? Nothing but dead air. And that silence is GOLDEN. Probably the best hour his radio show ever had.
Title: Re: The Music of Rushbo's Silence
Post by: Eniliad on March 09, 2012, 02:28:11 am
Silence is golden. Duct tape is silver. :-X
Title: Re: The Music of Rushbo's Silence
Post by: Cerim Treascair on March 09, 2012, 03:33:21 am
Submitted the link to Fark! *crosses fingers for a greenlight*
Title: Re: The Music of Rushbo's Silence
Post by: armandtanzarian on March 09, 2012, 08:48:52 am
Why couldn't they just play PSAs or a radio promo? Its not that hard and people usually don't notice the overuse of promos. Silence, however, is beyond conspicuous.
Title: Re: The Music of Rushbo's Silence
Post by: m52nickerson on March 09, 2012, 08:56:46 am
Why couldn't they just play PSAs or a radio promo? Its not that hard and people usually don't notice the overuse of promos. Silence, however, is beyond conspicuous.

Accorting to the stories most of the adds they played through out the day were PSA's.
Title: Re: The Music of Rushbo's Silence
Post by: Kit Walker on March 09, 2012, 10:24:07 am
The entire first hour of his program? Nothing but dead air. And that silence is GOLDEN. Probably the best hour his radio show ever had.

It was actually only a minute and three seconds of dead air. Which is actually even more delicious - Rush missing from the air for an hour is a technical mistake, an ad break without any ads means there wasn't anyone paying to fill it.
Title: Re: The Music of Rushbo's Silence
Post by: MadCatTLX on March 09, 2012, 10:46:49 am
"What is the music of life?"
"Silence, my brother."
Title: Re: The Music of Rushbo's Silence
Post by: nickiknack on March 09, 2012, 12:42:38 pm
LOL, Is wrong that I totally thought of this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diT3FvDHMyo
Title: Re: The Music of Rushbo's Silence
Post by: Old Viking on March 09, 2012, 04:26:00 pm
This is all we've ever asked of him.
Title: Re: The Music of Rushbo's Silence
Post by: Bezron on March 10, 2012, 08:19:16 am
My agency just announced (internally) that his show has been blacklisted.  Which means that we will not purchase any airtime for his show for any client unless a client threatens to leave over the move (and if they do, then we go into negotiations with the client over it).
Title: Re: The Music of Rushbo's Silence
Post by: Cerim Treascair on March 10, 2012, 07:06:25 pm
"What is the music of life?"
"Silence, my brother."

That sounds like quotes from the Dark Brotherhood.  Have you been playing Skyrim, Mad?
Title: Re: The Music of Rushbo's Silence
Post by: Stormwarden on March 10, 2012, 09:03:59 pm
Relevant: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/10/talk-radio-losing-advertisers_n_1336634.html

According to this, the fallout has increased to other shows. Now, it makes me wonder if Rush is gonna have to rein it in, or if he'll find the issue forced for him.
Title: Re: The Music of Rushbo's Silence
Post by: MadCatTLX on March 12, 2012, 09:36:22 am
"What is the music of life?"
"Silence, my brother."

That sounds like quotes from the Dark Brotherhood.  Have you been playing Skyrim, Mad?

Yes, quite alot actually. That quote was the first thing to come to mind when I saw the thread title. Also, I have a papercraft Dragon Priest Mask(though it's still a work in progress).