Due to 'low ratings,'
another radio station switched formats and dumped the vile talk radio host, Rush Limbaugh. This time the station serves listeners in *Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
It's not hard to believe. People were greatly angered around the country, after Limbaugh ridiculed Robin Williams just one day after the comedian died. Lewis Black publicly slammed Limbaugh last week, in disgust, and subsequently, over a quarter of a million people 'liked' Black's 'Fuck you, Rush Limbaugh,' Facebook post. That says a lot about the public's discontent over Limbaugh. Perhaps last week was enough to trigger this station to bid farewell to the hate jock.
Here is the radio station's Wikipedia update:
Clear Channel began simulcasting KKSY's programming on WMT-FM (96.5 FM) on December 27, 2011.[1][2] The programming moved to 96.5 FM exclusively on January 2, 2012 (with the KKSY-FM call letters following a few weeks later), and 95.7 FM began simulcasting the news/talk programming of sister station WMT, eventually changing call letters to KWMG.[3] On March 1, 2013, KWMG changed their call letters to the current KOSY-FM.
On August 18th, 2014, KOSY-FM dropped the WMT simulcast without warning, likely due to low ratings, and flipped to Top 40/CHR as Y 95.7.
Below is the station's former logo.
Yes, it seems that most people find the sound of pop/contemporary music much more agreeable, than having to listen to a well-known racist, misogynist, bigot filling their airways. Rush Limbaugh continues to create his own enemies. Hundreds of thousands of people now protest him and are getting more and more aggressive and impatient.
The petition below, that goes out to 40 Limbaugh's sponsors at a time, jumped over 15,000 signatures last week. Folks at StopRush, FlushRush and BoycottRush work hard to make it easy for just about anyone to get involved in big/small ways:
Sign: Limbaugh Sponsor & Clear Channel Petition
Visit/Like: BoycottRush Facebook Group
Join: The Fight To Flush Rush
Visit: StopRush.net for a list of Limbaugh Sponsors
Thank You Richard Myers. Rest In Peace. We Will Finish This.
Special thanks to BoycottRush volunteer, Freya M.
*And thank you to the Kossacks who contributed additional information in the comments. The Daily Kos community is awesome.
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