National Talkers
Friday, 26 September 2008

Rush Limbaugh (weekdays 12-3pm), host of The Rush Limbaugh Show,  is probably the most influential political figure today as talk show hosts go.

He started his radio career in his hometown of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, then moved to Pittsburgh, but honed his skill as a political commentator in Sacramento.


An independent-minded individualist, Michael Savage (weeknights 7-10), host of The Savage Nation, fits no stereotype.  He attacks big government and liberal media bias, but champions the environment & animal rights.  He says, "Those who listen to me say they hear a bit of Plato, Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Moses, Jesus and Frankenstein."

Laura Ingraham (Weeknights 10-1am), host of The Laura Ingraham Show, has been slugging it out in conservative journalism/politics since her days at  Dartmouth College in the mid-'80s, as editor of The Dartmouth Review. She worked as a speechwriter in the final two years of the Reagan Administration, before heading to law school at the University of Virginia.  She clerked for Judge Ralph K. Winter and for US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. 


George Noory (Weeknights 1-5am/Weekends 12-5am) is  the host of America's most fascinating overnight radio program - Coast to Coast AM.  It seems almost fated that he would takeover this unique role from Art Bell. 

Manning the helm of Coast to Coast AM is a pinnacle for George, allowing him to pursue the unexplained on a grand scale.


Art Bell, how many talk hosts have the engineering know-how to produce their own show, run their own technical board, and generally control the ebb and flow of the show from the first on- air minute to the last? Listen to Somewhere in Time with Art Bell, Satrudays.

Jim Bohannon, host of America in the Morning, (weekdays 5:30-6am) is one of America’s top radio personalities. He describes himself as a “militant moderate” delivering his wit, wisdom and natural charm to listeners across the nation.   A 35-year broadcasting veteran, Bohannon began his career in 1960 at his hometown station in Lebanon, MO.  His popular Week in Review can be heard Saturday mornings from 5-5:30.

Tammy Bruce (Sat 7-10pm), host of The Tammy Bruce Show,  is an openly gay, pro-choice, gun owning, pro-death penalty, voted-for-Reagan progressive feminist.  An important contributor to Bruce's position on the relevance of free speech comes from her experience as a radio talk show host in Los Angeles (1993-1998) where she was the first openly gay woman in the country to host a show on mainstream talk radio.

Rusty Humphries (Sat 10-12am), host of Saturday Night America,  has had quite a successful and colorful career.  He's been a contestant on The Wheel Of Fortune, a tour guide at Universal Studios in Hollywood and was even a candidate for U.S. Senate.  Rusty is currently working on growing his syndicated radio show, a book, a concert tour, a TV show and considers his passion for children’s and veterans issues to be the most important aspects of his career.