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Category Archives: Radio
When Radio Hosts Transition To Podcasts
The clock disappears first. Radio runs on a rigid frame built around ad breaks, the top-of-hour news, traffic and weather on the eights. A host’s whole craft sits inside that frame. He learns to hit posts, tease into breaks, fill … Continue reading
The Joe Piscopo Show
Joe Piscopo (b. 1951) talks like a man who learned to perform before he learned to argue, and that order shapes everything about how he sounds. Start with the voice. It comes from North Jersey and never left. The vowels … Continue reading
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The Armstrong & Getty Show
Sacramento radio hosts Armstrong & Getty sound like two clever men talking across a kitchen table, and the show works because the two men are not the same kind of clever. Joe Getty is the wordsmith. He reaches for the … Continue reading
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The Mark Simone Show
On June 8, 2026, Mark Simone posts on FB: “Don’t know Luke Ford, but thanks to him for writing a great analysis of my show.” Mark Simone runs on charm before he runs on argument. He came up as a … Continue reading
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The Kim Komando Show
Kim Komando (b. 1967) sells. That instinct sits under everything she does on the air. She started selling Unisys mainframes to corporate buyers, and the cadence of the pitch never left her voice. She translates a feature into a benefit, … Continue reading
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The Erick Erickson Show
Erick Woods Erickson (b. June 3, 1975) is an American conservative radio host, political commentator, author, lawyer, and former local politician whose career mirrors the transformation of conservative media from blogs and online activism to nationally syndicated radio, podcasts, newsletters, … Continue reading
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The Phil Hendrie Show
Phil Hendrie (b. 1952) is an American broadcaster who turned talk radio into live improvised theater. Most hosts in the form built careers on journalism, political argument, or celebrity interviews. Hendrie built his on performance. Across the 1990s and early … Continue reading
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KFI Talk Radio Programmer Robin Bertolucci
As a talk radio programmer, Robin Bertolucci hires the hosts, shapes the format, sets the editorial line, manages the talent through their better and worse days, and absorbs the controversies the audience never sees. For more than two decades that … Continue reading
Talk Radio Programmer David G. Hall
David G. Hall mainly worked behind the microphone rather than in front of it. As a reporter, news director, program director, syndication executive, and talent coach, he helped move talk radio from a narrow public-affairs format toward a mass-market medium … Continue reading
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The Jesus Christ Show On KFI
Neil Saavedra runs the longest-running gimmick in Los Angeles religious radio, and the gimmick works because he never plays it for laughs. He hosts The Jesus Christ Show on KFI AM 640, the flagship, syndicated through Premiere Networks, billed as … Continue reading
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