He's leaving CBS' WPHT for WKDN, recently bought by Randy Michaels' Merlin Media from crumbling Bible-thumper Family Radio (thanks to founder Harold Camping's wrong Armageddon predictions) and going to talk, with fellow Premiere right-wing talkers Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity (dumped by WPHT earlier this year) also on the schedule: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/09/limbaugh-to-leave-am-station-in-philadelphia/?utm_source=Subscribers&utm_campaign=4730d87b60-TRI_04-10-2012&utm_medium=email Two of Merlin's three other stations in New York and Chicago have tried an all-news format and so far have been spectacularly unsuccessful, although Merlin feels that all-news is a format that takes a while to draw listeners--the scuttlebutt was that WKDN would be all-news, but instead Michaels seems to be going for the quick (if aging) audience fix with talk radio with familiar names.
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