Limbaugh informed his listeners that the disease will keep him off the air on days when he receives treatment. On February 2, 2020, Rush Limbaugh announced on-air to his 20-million-strong audience that he had been diagnosed with “advanced lung cancer.” He ended his broadcast with this announcement. WBAL in Baltimore was the first major market radio station in the country to discontinue Limbaugh’s nationally syndicated radio program in March 2006.
Limbaugh’s popularity paved the way for other conservative talk radio programming to gain traction. Limbaugh’s show became nationally syndicated for the first time in August 1988. The Rush Limbaugh ShowĮach weekday at noon Eastern time, Limbaugh’s radio show airs for three hours. Limbaugh’s radio home in New York City was the talk-formatted WABC (AM), which remained his flagship station for many years, even after Limbaugh relocated to West Palm Beach, where he still broadcasts his show.
He made his debut just a few weeks after the Democratic National Convention and a few weeks before the Republican National Convention. On October 14, 1984, the show premiered.Īfter his success in Sacramento piqued the interest of former ABC Radio President Edward McLaughlin, Limbaugh launched a new show at WABC-AM in New York City in July 1988. He was fired from the station, but a few weeks later he landed a job on Sacramento, California’s KFBK-AM. He decided to ditch his on-air alias and go by his real name. Limbaugh returned to radio in November 1983, with a one-year stint at Kansas City’s KMBZ-AM. In 1979, he accepted a part-time position as director of group sales and special events for the Kansas City Royals baseball team, which grew into a full-time position as director of group sales and special events, based at Royals Stadium. By this point, Limbaugh had grown disillusioned with radio and felt compelled to pursue a different path. However, his tenure was brief, and disagreements with management led to his dismissal a few weeks later. He was fired from the station in 1977, but stayed in Kansas City to start an evening show at KFIX. He quickly rose to the position of host of a public service talk show that aired on weekend mornings, allowing him to hone his style and present more controversial ideas. Limbaugh began hosting an afternoon show at Top 40 station KUDL in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1975. Limbaugh was fired in late 1974 after new management put pressure on the program director to fire him. He then began working nights at Pittsburgh’s KQV-AM. For a time, he broadcasted as “Bachelor Jeff” Christie in the afternoons before being moved to the morning drive slot.Īfter eighteen months at WIXZ, Limbaugh was fired due to a “personality conflict” with the program director in 1973. He dropped out after two semesters of flunking everything because he was only interested in radio.Īfter dropping out of college in early 1971, Rush Limbaugh, then 20, landed a job as a DJ at the Top 40 station WIXZ-AM in McKeesport, Pennsylvania. In 1969, he graduated from high school and enrolled in Southeast Missouri State University. He got his first radio job at the age of 16 at KGMO-AM, a local Cape Girardeau radio station.
She explained at the time, “I grew up so differently, traveling around the world, that I’m sometimes not able to relate to the average person my age.”Ĥ.Limbaugh went to Cape Girardeau Central High School and played football there. Limbaugh explained that Rogers moved his family around often because of his career as an “international businessman.” He said Adams grew up all over the world in places including Rio de Janeiro, London, Guinea-Bissau in Africa, the Philippines and Hawaii.Īdams talked about her upbringing in a 2008 interview to describe her relationship with Limbaugh, who was 26 years her senior. Limbaugh praised his father-in-law during a 2017 episode of his radio show as the “definition of strength” and a “motivating influence.”
Her father, Richard Rogers, graduated from the Naval Academy in the same class as the late Senator John McCain. She is a direct descendant of President John Adams, as People reported in 2010 when she married Limbaugh. Kathryn Adams Limbaugh and her family can trace their lineage back to the founding of the United States.
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