ThinkProgress has obtained an internal memo from Premiere Radio Networks listing 96 national companies that have specifically asked their advertisments not be played during the Rush Limbaugh Show. Premiere is the distributor of Limbaughs program. The advertisers have also requested to be excluded from other right-wing hosts including Michael Savage, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity. According to the memo, the listed companies advertisements should be excluded from these programs because they have been deemed to be offensive.
The existance of the memo was first reported over the weekend by Radio-info.com, an industry newsletter. Radio-info did not publish the full list of companies. The memo was posted website of the Traffic Directors Guild of America, an association of professionals who distribute paid advertisements to radio stations. The memo was quickly deleted but ThinkProgress obtained a copy from a Google snapshot of the site taken on March 9.
Previously, ThinkProgress has reported that 50 companies requested their advertising be pulled from the Rush Limbaugh show following his sexist attacks on Sandra Fluke. The publication of the memo adds an additional 91 companies to the list of companies that have dropped Limbaugh:
21st Century Insurance Hotels.com Rite Aid Ace Hardware Honda Robitussin Acura IBM Sam Adams Advance Auto Parts Icy Hot Sams Club Advil (All products) Intuit/Small Business Schiff Digestive Advantage Alacer/Emergen-C Schiff Mega Red Allegra (all products) Johnson & Johnson (All Brands) Schiff Move Free Kohls Schiff Sustenex Ally Bank La Quinta Scotts Miracle-Gro (all products) American Express Lifetime Autozone Little Caesars Sony Boston Beer Lowes State Farm British Petroleum Luxottica Staples Bullfrog Sunblock Macys Sterling/Kay Jared Jewelers Caltrate MasterCard Subway Centrum McDonalds Takeda Uloric Chapstick Midas The Home Depot Clorox (Pinesol/Homecare) Napa Auto Parts ThermaCare Cortizone National Realtor Toyota DeVry NBC-TV Discover Card Office Depot Twinings of London Dominos Pizza Office Max Tyson/Wright Brand Bacon Exxon/Exxon Mobil One Main Financial Unisom Farmers Insurance United Healthcare Ford Orkin U.S. Army Outback U. S. Postal Service General Motors (All products -GM Certified Service Chevy Onstar Cadillac etc) Preparation H Visa Gold Bond (all products ProNutrients (all products) Walgreens Grainger Progressive Insurance Wal-Mart Green Mountain Coffee Prudential Wells Fargo Hallmark Radio Shack Wrigley H&R Block Rent-A-Center Yahoo!
You can view a copy of the memo below:
Premiere Networks List Of Advertisers Asking Not To Advertise On Limbaugh And Other Right-Wing Hosts