bmw wrote: ↑Sun Feb 21, 2021 10:51 am
Premiere Radio Network has announced that they will be airing mostly "archival" (basically, a best-of) audio for "weeks" during Rush's time slot. Even his hardcore fans will tire of that in a few days; they really need a fill-in host to discuss current topics immediately, otherwise listeners will abandon in droves and may never come back.
I agree. This arrangement can't be very comfortable for the fill-in hosts the past year (Steyn, Matthews, Herman). They have been used to cutting loose for three hours with their own ways of appealing to Limbaugh's audience.
A Wall Street Journal article talked about Premiere using the archive format as a way for Rush's fans to say goodbye to him. Well, they spent the past year saying goodbye to him. The amazing thing is that the conservative talk show industry that he helped build is so large now that the void of his passing is smaller than many people expected.
Since I started working from home last summer, I've been mostly listening to Dennis Prager from 12-3. If Rush or Steyn was on, I'd listen to that for about the first hour, when they make their main points of the day. But Prager has a relaxed, intelligent style that reminds me of David Newman. Also like Newman, he covers a wider range of topics than your standard conservative talk show host.