When did Rush become 50% commercials?

Did you order yourself a My Pillow?

6 months ago. That's when I started noticing the 'rap arounds.'
Radio ads are composed of ad agency productions (national and local share time) and you have some 'talent rap arounds' which sounds like part of the program.
I know the length of each segment so when he starts with hawking a product during content time I turn off the radio and switch it back on 20 minutes later for the next segment.
Sometimes it goes like this:
5 minutes of commercials
10 minutes of Rush selling T-shirts
5 minutes of commercials

So, you have 20 minutes of zero content.

No, it hasn't. It's much worse now.

Out of his 3 hour show, Rush is probably speaking about political matters for 1 hour.

I really only listen for the opening music at 11:06, 12:06, and 1:06.

I'll start again once 2020 kicks up. Rush during an election year is some much listen radio.

Listen to the opening segment. If he's on fire and goes long it's going to be a good show. If it's short and uninspiring it's not going to be a great show.

Rush has always been 100% commercials

Total Hack

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Listen to the opening segment. If he's on fire and goes long it's going to be a good show. If it's short and uninspiring it's not going to be a great show.

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THIS!!!

OP is exaggerating too. The opening segment typically runs from :06 to :22 (or :23 or :24), then 3 minutes of commercial, then 3-5 minutes to take you to :30. So right there is 22 minutes of program.

The 2nd half begins at :33 I think, and I know one of thos segments runs a good nine minutes, giving us 31 minutes of program already.

So with the other segments in the 2nd half-hour, that right there has to be at least 40 minutes of program.

I don't really count the first six minutes of the hour anyway.. my goal is to finish my shite up by :06 and indulge in some Rush!!