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8 unusual facts about talk radio


Alien Radio

Talk radio host and skeptic, Stan Harbinger, debunks and mocks callers to his show who claim to have had alien encounters.

George Noory

George Ralph Noory (born June 4, 1950) is a radio talk show host.

Howie Carr

(born January 17, 1952) is an American journalist, author, and conservative radio talk-show host based in Boston with a listening audience rooted in New England.

Leslie Marshall

Leslie Marshall has been a liberal radio talk host since 1988 and a commentator on national television since 2001.

Nathaniel Berg

He is the host of a radio talk show discussing medicine and timely local controversial topics in the Pacific.

Podbharti

Listeners have equated the experience of listening to the podcasts to 70's style radio, reminiscent of Vividh Bharti.

Talk Radio

talkSPORT, a British radio station formerly called "Talk Radio"

Talk radio, a call-in discussion format for radio broadcasts


850 AM Montreal

The new French-language sports/talk radio format will broadcast from facilities on Île Perrot on 850 kHz as a class B station, with a power of 50,000 watts daytime and 22,000 watts nighttime.

Alan Burke

Alan S. Burke (September 15, 1922 - August 25, 1992) was an American conservative television and radio talk show host who was on the air primarily in New York City from 1966 to 1969 on WNEW (now Fox Broadcasting O&O WNYW).

America Now with Andy Dean

America Now with Andy Dean is a three-hour syndicated talk radio show hosted by radio talk show host and political commentator Andy Dean, broadcast live 6-9PM EST / 3-6PM PST on weekdays from Premiere Network's Sherman Oaks studios.

Arlene Bynon

Arlene Bynon is a Canadian television and radio broadcaster, formerly an afternoon talk radio host on AM 640 in Toronto, Ontario.

Brian Keith Jones

On August 7, 2005, talk radio show host Derryn Hinch revealed Jones' living arrangements on air; Hinch's comments caused controversy in the Melbourne suburb of Frankston, where residents attacked the house named on air and abused its occupants, and a local supermarket began a petition to remove Jones from the area.

Chris Rohmann

Rohmann has been an actor, director, singer, songwriter, writer, and radio commentator as well as a member of the adjunct faculty of the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts High School (PVPA).

CIDG-FM

CRTC commissioner Michel Morin took the unusual step of issuing a dissenting opinion, in which he stated that Corus Entertainment's competing proposal for a new talk radio station served a greater need in the market.

Donna Halper

Her expertise is in women and minorities in media history, Talk radio, as well as individual entrepreneurs whose contributions to broadcasting have been overlooked.

Jersey's Talking

Leonard worked previously for CBS Sports’ The NFL Today, NBC Sports, ABC Talk Radio, WNBC-AM, WABC-AM, WNEW-TV’s Midday Live and Sports Extra, and CNBC.

Kevin Barrett

Following a June 28, 2006 talk radio segment on WTMJ, Barrett's views came to the attention of Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle, U.S. Representative Mark Green, and State Representative Stephen L. Nass.

KGAB

The Oliver Stone movie Talk Radio takes place at a fictional radio station called KGAB, located in Dallas, Texas.

KIXL

KIXL is a Catholic talk radio station in Del Valle, Texas, broadcasting to the Austin-Round Rock area of Texas on 970 kHz AM.

Mark Readings

In addition to his work on Nine News and SEN 1116, he has also been a commentator during 92.9's Australian Football League (AFL) coverage in the late 1990s, and presented a talkback sports show with Scott Watters on 882 6PR in 2002.

Mike Gallagher

He is the host of The Mike Gallagher Show, a nationally-syndicated radio program that airs throughout the United States on Salem Radio Network and is also a FOX News Channel Contributor and guest host.

Nicolas Tétrault

He is currently a partner in Tietolman Tetrault Pancholy Media, a company which has received two new licenses for talk radio stations in Montreal, 600 AM (English) and 940 AM (French) from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission which are expected to launch by the end 2013.

Ryan Jay

Ryan was the co-host of Clear Channel's PRIDE Radio with Ryan & Caroline, the first nationally syndicated radio talk show targeted to the LGBT community.

Sally Meen

She has presented on Talk Radio and 963 Liberty Radio (London), as well as appearing on satellite TV stations: TV Travel Shop, Thomas Cook TV, Carlton Food Network.

Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew

A board-certified internist and addiction medicine specialist, he rose to fame as the host of the nationally syndicated radio talk show, Loveline, and star of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, of which Sex Rehab is a spinoff.

The Kim Komando Show

During the commercially-supported three-hour program, Komando responds to screened calls from individuals seeking advice on buying and using computers, gadgets, and other devices.

Walt Bodine

Still broadcasting into his nineties, Bodine hosted the talk radio show The Walt Bodine Show on KCUR, the Kansas City area's NPR member station from 1993 to 2012.

Washington Post Radio

From 8 PM to 5 AM ET, the station was programmed as a general interest talk radio station, featuring hosts such as Clark Howard, Larry King and Jim Bohannon.

WGY-FM

WGY-FM is a news-talk radio station licensed to Albany, New York that broadcasts at 103.1 FM; the station broadcasts 24 hours a day at 5,600 watts ERP from a non-directional antenna in North Greenbush, New York located near U.S. Route 4.

WOBC-FM

WOBC airs an eclectic mix of music and public affairs programming including new and old pop music, punk, folk, classical, blues, R&B, metal, hip-hop, jazz, electronic, radio dramas, talk shows, and news including the independently syndicated news program Democracy Now!.

WOUF

It was formerly simulcast on WCUZ 100.1 FM licensed to Bear Lake, Michigan, which now airs a talk format as Talk Radio 1340 WMTE (although the actual WMTE-AM 1340 remains silent as of July 2012).

WREY

Borgen bought the silent WDGY in October 1996 and returned the station to the air in January 1997 as a Hudson, Wisconsin-based entity with the same call letters, airing a talk radio format that featured hosts like Don Imus, G. Gordon Liddy and Don and Mike, with oldies music from 6 PM to 6 AM.

WWCN

WWCN airs a sports talk format branded as "99.3 FM ESPN"; until 2012, it was an alternative rock radio station, although the active rock flip was confirmed following the flip of sister station WRXK-FM to talk radio.

WXBT

WVOC had a talk radio format with syndicated shows, mostly from parent Clear Channel's Premiere networks, including Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, Matt Drudge, Adam Bold, and Coast-to-Coast AM.


see also

Balint Vazsonyi

Balint Vazsonyi was a frequent guest on national talk radio and appeared on television shows such as NBC Today, Booknotes on C-SPAN with Brian Lamb, and Washington Journal, MSNBC, and Insights with Robert Novak.

Ben Shapiro

From May 2, 2010 to 2011, he hosted The Ben Shapiro Show on the Orlando, Florida talk radio station WEUS.

Bernard Meltzer

Talk radio legend Bruce Williams said Meltzer was his inspiration to get into talk radio, after listening to him for years sitting in the car while his daughters attended Sunday School.

Brian Widlake

Widlake joined London's news and talk radio station LBC to present a breakfast programme on LBC Crown FM, later LBC NewsTalk 97.3 in 1989.

Brooks Brothers riot

"We were trying to stop the recount; Bush had already won," said Evilio Cepero, a reporter for WAQI, an influential Spanish talk radio station in Miami.

Carol McGiffin

In 1997 she reappeared again on Talk Radio on the Friday breakfast show with Paul Ross.

Chris Faraone

In February 2012, Faraone debated conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart on WRKO, a talk radio station in Boston, over the legitimacy and motives of the Occupy movement.

Christopher Murney

His voice can be heard as Chester Cheetah for Cheetos and most recently (2006) in the popular video games, as Dwayne from VCPR New World Order talk radio in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories by Rockstar Games, and as Black Garius, the bad guy, in Neverwinter Nights 2, and as various characters in Red Dead Revolver.

Edward Tyll

In the early 1980s, Tyll hosted a conservative talk radio program on WPBR in Palm Beach, Florida.

Enlisted Retention Board

According to Lisa Wexler, an award-winning talk radio host and the creator and executive producer of The Lisa Wexler Show, this situation was not met.

Food insurance

Since its founding, Food Insurance has been endorsed by conservative talk radio show hosts Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity.

Gary Bauer

Bauer co-hosted a talk radio show with former Jerusalem Post CEO and President Tom Rose from March 2006 to March 2007 on WMET, a Washington, D.C. area radio station.

Gerardo Sandoval

Sandoval introduced a resolution "condemning the defamatory language used by talk radio host Michael Savage" after Savage criticized illegal alien protesters who were fasting in support of the controversial DREAM Act, which would give qualifying illegal aliens a path to US citizenship as well as enable them to receive tax payer funded in-state college tuition.

Go Vegan

Go Vegan Radio is a one-hour talk radio program hosted by Bob Linden.

Haditha killings

Family, friends, defense lawyers and conservative talk radio host Michael Savage have openly criticized the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) for its role in this case.

Houston Chronicle

After the article appeared, Sandoval's stepfather and sister called into Houston talk radio station KSEV and said that a sentence alleging "President Bush's failure to find weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq misrepresented their views on the war and President George W. Bush, that Wall had pressured them for a quotation that criticized Bush, and that the line alleging Bush's "failure" was included against the wishes of the family.

Jackie Hoffman

Hoffman provided the voice of "Mary Phillips, the Talk Radio host", in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

Joe Crummey

Earlier in his career, Crummey was a disc jockey at New York's WNBC and WAPP (where he briefly partnered on-air with Mark McEwen) in the 1980s, before moving to talk radio at stations such as KFI and KABC in Los Angeles, and KFYI in Phoenix.

Kirby Wilbur

In 1999 Wilbur co-authored, with Floyd Brown, Say the Right Thing: Talk Radio's Favorite Conservative Quotes, Notes and Gloats, which was published by Merrill Press.

KIRO-FM

On August 12, 2008 at 4:23 AM, KBSG's frequency began to simulcast sister news/talk radio station KIRO; the final song as a classic hits station, Start Me Up by the Rolling Stones, faded out as the FM station joined KIRO AM's Wall Street Journal This Morning in progress.

KTNF

The company that purchased KTNF was founded by Minnesota attorney Janet Robert and former Minnesota Congressman Bill Luther in November 2003, as a result of their concern about the impact right wing talk radio had in the 2002 elections and inspired by Sydney Blumenthal's book The Rise of the Counter-Establishment: The Conservative Ascent to Political Power.

KYCA

The station first began its transition to full-time news-talk radio with the premiere of The Rush Limbaugh Show in 1988 and The Dr. Dean Edell Show a few years later.

Nashville, North Carolina

Phil Valentine, nationally syndicated talk radio host and movie producer

Norm Hitzges

Norman R. "Norm" Hitzges (born July 5, 1944) is an author and sports talk radio host at KTCK (1310 AM / 96.7 FM, "SportsRadio 1310 The Ticket") in Dallas, Texas.

Phil Hendrie

In February 2005, Hendrie's flagship station, KFI, moved him to sister station KLAC in an effort to help turn the all-sports talk radio station into a ratings winner with entertainment programming incorporated.

Phil Pozderac

He also currently hosts POZitively Unconstitutional, a talk radio show on the Republic Broadcasting Network.

Philip Nobile

As a "muckraking" investigative journalist and media analyst, Nobile has generated controversy by his criticisms of a variety of public figures, including talk radio host Don Imus, historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, and President Harry S. Truman.

Radio comedy

The majority of mainstream radio comedy now consists of personality-driven shows hosted by talk-radio hosts such as Howard Stern or comedic duos such as Armstrong & Getty and Bob & Tom.

Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley, Quebec

As the hometown of producer Franklin Raff, pastoral Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley is frequently depicted on G. Gordon Liddy's syndicated talk radio show as an otherworldly, Franco-Catholic redoubt in a predominantly Anglo-Loyalist region of Quebec.

Scott Miller

Scott Allen Miller (born 1970), American disc jockey, producer, and talk radio host

Scottie McClue

Scottie McClue had, as analyst Mary Talbot observes, achieved "a degree of infamy as a highly confrontational talk radio host".

Simi Sara

Prior to joining CKNW, Sara was associated with CKVU-TV, including stints as a host of Breakfast Television and CityCooks, and with talk radio station CFUN before it flipped to its current sports format.

Talk Radio Network

Encores of Talk Radio Network programming and fill-in hosts such as Bill Wattenburg and Tammy Bruce fill in the gaps.

The Adventures of Willy Beamish

Despite the fact that it features a nine-year-old as the protagonist, much of the game's humor is adult-oriented, including sexual puns (such as a frog called "Horny"; Willy giving a bully a hand held game system and telling him to "play with himself"; a young blonde school nurse with large breasts) and some satire (including a parody of conservative American talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh).

The Tim Conway Show

The Tim Conway Jr. Show, a weeknight talk radio program in Los Angeles, California, hosted by Tim Conway Jr.

THSS

The Howard Stern Show, an American comedy talk radio show hosted by shock jock Howard Stern

Tom Athans

Athans was co-founder and former CEO of Democracy Radio, an organization that created and produced progressive talk radio shows that included The Ed Schultz Show and The Stephanie Miller Show.

Tom Luginbill

He is the son of the professional and college coach Al Luginbill and a distant cousin of talk radio host Joe Luginbill.

UTV Radio

The Wireless Group had its British origins in the company Talk Radio, named after the national AM station around which it was formed, which was later purchased by TalkCo, a consortium whose members included MVI, News International, Radio Investments and LMC Radio headed by chief executive Kelvin MacKenzie, the former editor of The Sun newspaper.

Vermont Teddy Bear Company

Premiere is the syndicator of the top three talk-radio shows—hosted respectively by Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck.

WETR

WETR airs "Life changing talk radio" that includes Bill Bennett, Dr. Laura, Dave Ramsey, and Hugh Hewitt, plus Costas on the Radio, Watchdog on Wall Street, Sports Spectrum, Forbes Radio, The Money Pit Home Improvement Radio Show, and Laura Ingraham on Saturdays, and Todd Feinberg, Steppin' Out, Small Business Advocate, Christian programming and several "Best of" shows on Sundays.

WFLF

WFLF (AM), am540 WFLA - An Orlando news/talk radio station licensed to Pine Hills, Florida.

WFLF-FM, Fox Newsradio 94.5 WFLA - A Panama City news/talk radio station licensed to Parker, Florida.

WXMT-HD2

W237CS is once again carrying a talk radio format, now simulcasting WVTT in Portville.

When sister station WLMI flipped formats from its longtime country music format to the AAA format WUMT (now WVTT), Colonial pulled "FM Talk Radio 95.3" from its Web site, and in its place was an icon for "93.9 The Sports Animal."

Yvon Pedneault

Pedneault was host of one of North America's longest running sports talk, radio call-in shows, called "Les amateurs de sports" in the '70s on CKAC in Montreal (the program airs to this day).