The National Association of Broadcasters has announced that Premiere Radio Network syndicated radio and Z100 New York morning man Elvis Duran will host the  2011 NAB Marconi Radio Awards Dinner & Show that will take place September 15 at the 2011 Radio Show at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago, Illinois. “Elvis is the ’host of the party’ on his national radio show” said NAB Executive Vice President of Radio John David. “We couldn’t be more …

Premiere syndicated radio talker Rush Limbaugh is #23 on the new Forbes Celebrity 100 list of the world’s most powerful celebrities with an estimated recent yearly pay of $64 million. #24 is KIIS-FM, Los Angeles and Premiere Radio syndicated Ryan Seacrest, $61 million.  Sirius XM star Howard Stern is #26 on the list with $76 million. And #30 is Premiere talker Glenn Beck, with an estimated $40 million in pay.

Rush Limbaugh has once again landed on top of the Talkers Magazine “Heavy Hundred” ranking the 100 most important radio talk show hosts in America. Limbaugh’s place on the 2011 list marks the fifth year in a row that the EBI/Premiere Radio Network syndicated radio talker has claimed the top spot. Conservative syndicated radio talkers  Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck and Michael Savage remain at the 2,3, and four positions while Laura Ingraham  moves into the …

Salem Radio Network’s Mike Gallagher is set to replace Glenn Beck at WOR, New York when the station drops the Premiere Radio Network syndicated radio talker on January 17. Gallagher, who will broadcast from both  New York and Dallas, will host 10am-noon while local morning man John Gambling will remain on the air until 10 am. It will be Beck’s second top 10 market loss this year. CBS Radio talker WPHT, Philadelphia is …

Dial Global syndicated radio talker Michael Smerconish is ending his national morning show in January to focus on his syndicated midday show. Smerconish’s flagship station, CBS Radio’s WPHT Philadelphia, will move his show from mornings to the 3p-7p  slot, leaving Premiere Radio Network’s  Sean Hannity temporarily without a Philly home.
“Michael is currently producing seven hours of live radio every day which is a Herculean task,” Dial Global SVP/GM Amy Bolton said. …

Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck are at the top of  yet another “power” list of media pundits and personalities. Newsweek’s “Power 50″ ranks the politicians, ex-politicians, pundits and media personalities who parlay the giving of opinions into lucrative financial earnings for themselves. Contributors to what Newsweek calls the “commercialization of political personality” also include,  (and you’ll notice a certain political slant here) syndicated radio personalities Sean Hannity,  Don Imus and ex-syndicated radio talk show …

A rare example of a radio career being more lucrative than television

Talkers Magazine has released it’s annual list of Talk Radio’s “Heavy Hundred” and Premiere Radio Network and Fox News commentator Glenn Beck (#5 in 2008) has leaped over Michael Savage as the 3rd most influential talker in America, behind Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. The list “heavily” weighted toward conservative talk hosts,  is part of Talkers Magazine’s yearly “Talkers 250“, and also features some  lower rated non-conservative or progressive talkers like Thom Hartmann (#10) Ed …

At first glance this seems incredible but then again, not surprising. In a just released Harris Poll that asked people to identify their favorite TV host, Premiere Radio Network and Fox News personality Glenn Beck comes from nowhere to rank second only to television talk icon Oprah Winfrey. Of the ten personalities on the list, seven are talk show personalities. The rest of the list includes (in order) Jay Leno, Ellen DeGeneres, Hugh Laurie, …

File this under  “you can’t pay for this kind of promotion.” Clear Channel radio kicked off two new FM talkers in North Carolina today, both dubbed “Rush Radio” with the Premiere Radio Networks syndicated radio host anchoring the lineup at both Raleigh’s WRDU-FM and Greensboro’s WGBT-FM. The Raleigh lineup also includes Premiere Radio Networks’ Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Jason Lewis and Coast-To-Coast AM with George Noory, as well as Compass …