Is WABC Radio Misleading Listeners?

Before listeners hear Rush Limbaugh each afternoon on WABC, they are greeted by the booming sound of Johnny Donovan.

Each hour Donovan, a former Musicradio 77 WABC DJ, announces:

“Broadcasting from high atop the WABC broadcast center, overlooking Madison Square Garden in midtown Manhattan, this is New York City‘s most listened to talk radio host: Rush Limbaugh.”

The average listener might think Limbaugh is opening the mic at the WABC studios in New York. In reality, though, Limbaugh is 1,200 miles south in Florida.

“I

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