Radio host Rush Limbaugh is fed up.
The conservative political commentator might take The Rush Limbaugh show off of his current network, Cumulus, due to what he calls misplaced blame.
Lew Dickey, CEO of Cumulus, WABC's parent company, has been wary of Limbaugh's controversial opinions since 2012, when the show host made some particularly radical comments about Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown student who was not allowed to speak at a Congressional hearing about birth control.
Cumulus said that Limbaugh, who called Fluke a "slut" and a "prostitute," and was having "so much sex," that she needed the government to pay for her contraception, cost the company millions of dollars for his comments. A handful of the network's major advertisers, including Sleep Train and ProFlowers, pulled their commercials from the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Dickey restated that Limbaugh is to blame for the company's slumping ad sales and bad numbers in March this year, saying that nearly one third of Cumulus' lost revenue is the Conservative's fault.
Limbaugh publicly waved away the controversy, saying that the Fluke controversy made Cumulus' numbers shoot through the roof, and he is still at the top as far as ratings go.
Limbaugh maintains he is not responsible for the decline in advertising, and told the New York Daily News that the CEO just needed a scapegoat.
"Lew needs someone to blame, [so] he's pointing fingers instead of fixing his own sales problem," he said.
His contract with WABC is over at the end of the year, whereupon he might make a move to a network like WOR, a talk radio station based in New York.
