Tuesday, August 10

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From Radio Daily News...

Since the early 1990s, Rush Limbaugh's three-hour radio talk show could be heard every Monday through Friday on an Arkansas River Valley radio station. At 11 a.m. July 1, however, the conservative talk show host's voice was silent when listeners tuned in to Russellville radio station KCAB (980 AM).

River Valley Radio's general manager explained Friday the decision to not renew the station's annual contract with Limbaugh had nothing to do with previous allegations of Oxycontin abuse. "It was strictly a business decision," Jim Kelley said. "Rush Limbaugh was one of the first shows we broadcast when KCAB came back on the air in the early 1990s. I listened to Rush Limbaugh, and it was a part of the day that attracted many listeners.

"However, over the past few years, sponsorship for the show has dwindled to the point we had one sponsor for the show last year (June 30, 2003 through July 1, 2004). The bottom line is we were losing money on the show for the past year, so we asked not to renew our annual contract with Rush Limbaugh earlier this year."