WIND AM 560.<\/a><\/p>\nLimbaugh has been on WLS since the station launched its news\/talk format in August of 1989. For many years the conservative radio icon was among the top-rated stars in middays.<\/p>\n
The latest Nielsen Audio survey shows WLS ranked 24th from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekdays with a 1.5 percent share and cumulative weekly audience of 121,300. Among listeners between 25 and 54 \u2014 the group most sought by advertisers \u2014 WLS tied for 31st with a 0.8 share and 47,300 weekly cume. For the full year 2014, 62 percent of Limbaugh\u2019s audience was over 55, and 34 percent was over 65, according to Nielsen Audio.<\/p>\n
In December 2013 Cumulus Media dropped Limbaugh\u2019s show from WABC, its news\/talk flagship in New York. Along with Sean Hannity\u2019s show, Limbaugh moved to rival WOR, owned by iHeart Media. At that time, Cumulus Media signed Limbaugh to a three-year extension through the end of 2016 on its other large-market stations, including WLS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rush Limbaugh, who\u2019s been a fixture on WLS AM 890 for more than 25 years, is about to get the bum\u2019s rush from the Cumulus Media news\/talk station, sources said Wednesday. If all goes as planned, Limbaugh\u2019s syndicated talk show, which airs from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday, will be dropped by... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7069"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7082,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7069\/revisions\/7082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}