On This Show, I'm the Decider
RUSH: Now, a programming note. There is an interfaith service for the slain officers that just began about ten minutes or so ago in Dallas, and the president is going to be speaking at this event. He just arrived in Dallas. I just saw footage of Air Force One taxiing in to its disembarkation location on whatever Air Force Base it landed at.
And I just want to let you local affiliates know that because of the unknown aspects of this, we're not going to be JIPping the whole thing. I realize many of you affiliates will, particularly in Dallas and that area. I'm sure you'll bump out and televise or broadcast the entire Obama thing.
It gives us problems if we go full bore on anything like this, not just Obama. It presents programming problems for best-of replays. We have to do basically a full three-hour program here every day, because they are used in replays. And if we deliver to our affiliates a three-hour program with a 20-minute hole in it because of something we covered live and JIPped... So we just make the decision, leave it up to the local affiliates.
But I want you to know that whatever your affiliate does, we are here, so you can stream it at RushLimbaugh.com or any number of other places if your local affiliate decides to preempt the program and cover it, which I have total understanding if any affiliate wants to do this. We don't even know what time Obama's gonna begin. It creates all kinds of problems going through commercial breaks. There have been rare occasions where we have JIPped a live presidential address. They're rare. We have done it.
What we might do is listen to five or ten minutes or six seconds of comment, move back, come in and out of it, but we'll still furnish a complete three-hour program to our affiliate stations here each and every day, as they expect, with existing commercial availabilities as well. So just to give a heads-up to anybody involved.
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RUSH: Get this. I just got an email: "Who decides when you're gonna preempt your show for ...?" What do you mean, "Who?" I do! What do you think, there's some Mr. Oz somewhere behind some curtain pulling the strings on that? I decide that. I'm the CEO, I'm the host, I'm the program director, and the producer. What do you mean, "Who decides?" I do. There is no political director, no news director, no program director. I'm it. It's my decision.
Okay. We're gonna go to the phones. People have been patiently waiting and we're gonna start in... (interruption) Decides what? Who decides...?
RUSH: Now, a programming note. There is an interfaith service for the slain officers that just began about ten minutes or so ago in Dallas, and the president is going to be speaking at this event. He just arrived in Dallas. I just saw footage of Air Force One taxiing in to its disembarkation location on whatever Air Force Base it landed at.
And I just want to let you local affiliates know that because of the unknown aspects of this, we're not going to be JIPping the whole thing. I realize many of you affiliates will, particularly in Dallas and that area. I'm sure you'll bump out and televise or broadcast the entire Obama thing.
It gives us problems if we go full bore on anything like this, not just Obama. It presents programming problems for best-of replays. We have to do basically a full three-hour program here every day, because they are used in replays. And if we deliver to our affiliates a three-hour program with a 20-minute hole in it because of something we covered live and JIPped... So we just make the decision, leave it up to the local affiliates.
But I want you to know that whatever your affiliate does, we are here, so you can stream it at RushLimbaugh.com or any number of other places if your local affiliate decides to preempt the program and cover it, which I have total understanding if any affiliate wants to do this. We don't even know what time Obama's gonna begin. It creates all kinds of problems going through commercial breaks. There have been rare occasions where we have JIPped a live presidential address. They're rare. We have done it.
What we might do is listen to five or ten minutes or six seconds of comment, move back, come in and out of it, but we'll still furnish a complete three-hour program to our affiliate stations here each and every day, as they expect, with existing commercial availabilities as well. So just to give a heads-up to anybody involved.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Get this. I just got an email: "Who decides when you're gonna preempt your show for ...?" What do you mean, "Who?" I do! What do you think, there's some Mr. Oz somewhere behind some curtain pulling the strings on that? I decide that. I'm the CEO, I'm the host, I'm the program director, and the producer. What do you mean, "Who decides?" I do. There is no political director, no news director, no program director. I'm it. It's my decision.
Okay. We're gonna go to the phones. People have been patiently waiting and we're gonna start in... (interruption) Decides what? Who decides...?