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Dial Global: Rush Limbaugh's Sandra Fluke Rants Hurt Our Radio Business



Posted: 11/16/2012 3:36 pm EST Updated: 11/16/2012 3:36 pm EST

Another radio company has said that Rush Limbaugh's comments about Sandra Fluke wound up hurting its bottom line.

Dial Global, a radio programming company, said on Thursday that it will remove itself from the NASDAQ stock exchange — a sure sign of financial trouble. In addition, it had multimillion dollar losses in its latest quarter.

Dial listed [ http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/112638/dial-global-posts-disappointing-q3-financials-poin ] a whole host of factors for its financial straits. But one of them was "advertisers' response to controversial statements by a certain nationally syndicated talk radio personality in March 2012."

That personality was, of course, Limbaugh, who called [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/29/rush-limbaugh-sandra-fluke-slut_n_1311640.html ] Fluke a "slut" for her birth control advocacy, prompting an advertiser exodus.

Other companies have cited Limbaugh as a partial reason for their weaker earnings. Cumulus, another radio company, said [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/09/rush-limbaugh-cumulus-ad-boycott-millions_n_1502390.html ] that his anti-Fluke rants had cost it millions of dollars.

(h/t Deadline [ http://www.deadline.com/2012/11/dial-global-rush-limbaugh/ ])

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