Now, I mentioned the fact that I've been very lucky in life. He could have done Chinese opera.īut he believed in the power of spoken-word radio. He could have chosen to do anything with these two hours. You have a giant in the radio business, Ed McLaughlin, who retires from ABC, and is given two hours of satellite time to fill as he wishes. RUSH: I'm gonna stick with the CliffNotes version of things here because to give you every fascinating-to-me detail about the beginning of this program, I could spend an hour if not more. That's why Ed took one of the biggest risks anybody ever took in radio. Daytime syndication of talk radio programming had simply not succeeded. I forget who the host was, but they were on 56 radio stations, and the largest one was probably in a market not even in the top 50. The time he assumed control of those two hours they were running a show.
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But he was given two additional hours as part of his retirement package, and he was free to do with those two hours whatever he wanted to do. This emerge resulted in many of the ABC executives being, quote-unquote, "retired" so that Capital City executives could assume their positions 'cause Cap Cities was the purchasing entity.Įd McLaughlin, as his retirement package, was given whatever compensation but more importantly he was given two hours of satellite time from 12 noon to 2 Eastern. And then ABC decided to merge with Capital Cities Communications. He was right there making that a reality on the radio side for ABC. He was at ABC in its heyday, in its period of greatest accomplishment and achievement.
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He was in the same executive suite as Roone Arledge on the TV side and any of the other noted and famous ABC executives.
There were many networks, and he was the head honcho of all of them. His career took him to the presidency of the ABC Radio Networks. He staffed it with the best on-air talent that he could find. He built it into a decades-long era of leadership, being No. He ran one of the biggest and most important radio stations in the country, KGO in San Francisco. RUSH: Now, folks, Ed McLaughlin was a giant in the radio business for years. But without Ed McLaughlin, it doesn't, either. Without you, it's an academic exercise and doesn't exist. And any time it's relevant, I give as much thanks to all of you in this audience as I can, because you are as much responsible for what happens here, the success of it, as anybody. I've never had that problem, but I also am constantly aware of just how lucky I have been. You look around and think, "My gosh, I'm not special. Fortunately, I've never been that, but I understand it. They think it's undeserved and therefore they sabotage their own success. But there's this sometimes intangible characteristic of good fortune or luck. I'm not being falsely humble here by saying "lucky." But the way we end up - all of us as individuals, the way we end up in life - yeah, we have a lot to say about it ourselves. And each time I notice it, but today, Saturday, it really hit me how damn lucky I am and have been. I'm on the way up there and the route to this particular place takes you through, shall we say, less-than-affluent places. I was driving to play golf Saturday morning - in fact, played golf with Ron DeSantis, congressman from Florida, who is running for governor, and this happens to me sometimes. But it wouldn't have happened without him, in more ways than one.Īnd I would just like to tell you a little bit about him and how all this happened so that you who haven't heard can understand it, because to me, of course, it's a big thing. We were not engaging in politics when we started this program. Ed didn't intend any of this don't misunderstand. For those of you who have, that's why I'm asking and begging your indulgence, and I must pay tribute to Ed. It's been a long time since I've explained how this program began and how it made it, and there are many new people listening here who have not heard the story. Those are the initials of his beloved wife, Patricia. The name of his company was actually P.A.M. His name was Ed McLaughlin and Ed McLaughlin was the founder and the chairman of the Excellence in Broadcasting Network. Because a man died last Thursday without whom this program would not exist and very likely conservative media as you know it today would not be what it is. When we come back, I want to indulge you, if you please, for some personal time.
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