After being sidelined for a few days due to an emergency appendectomy, Glenn Beck, tweeted over the weekend that he expected to return to his radio show today (11/10). Apparently however, Beck had second thoughts and will make his return on Wednesday. The Premiere Radio Network syndicated radio talker abruptly disappeared last Wednesday for what turned out to be appendicitis.  Beck returns to the airwaves with news that his latest book,  “The Christmas Sweater: A …

Don Imus has come full circle after his debut on Fox Business Network this morning. He’s all the way back from his ordeal in the spring of 2007 when he made racially insulting remarks about the Rutgers women’s basketball team. After being fired from CBS Radio, which distributed his radio show nationally and from MSNBC which had simulcast the show for 11 years, he signed a deal with Citadel Media to do …

Fox News Channel and Premiere Radio Networks syndicated radio talker host Glenn Beck’s latest book, Arguing With Idiots: How To Stop Small Minds And Big Government, is set to debut at #1 on the New York Times hardcover non-fiction bestseller list on October 11th. That will give Beck two books on the Times’ bestseller list, where his best seller, Glenn Beck’s Common Sense is in it’s spending its 16th week on …

The special NAB Radio Show issue of Al Peterson’s industry e-mag NTS (News/Talk/Sports) Media Online, has revealed the results of it’s “Talk Radio 25 Big Ones ” readers poll. The survey lists the 25 syndicated radio talkers who the newsletters readers felt best “moved the meter” and stood above the crowd. The survey lists the usual suspects in the top slots including Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Glenn Beck, but it also includes some surprises. …

Dial Global syndicated radio talker Stephanie Miller and ESPN Radio’s “Mike and Mike In The Morning” made first time debuts on RadioTime’s “Top 19 Programs” list during the month of August. RadioTime Inc., a developer of technology for finding and listening to radio online, released the August list today ranking the most listened-to programs on RadioTime.com. “The Stephanie Miller Show” showed up at number 18 and “Mike and Mike” at …

The Atlantic Wire, a new online news site whose main focus is to aggregate and distill the political pundit clutter launched Tuesday. Among the highlights of the new site is the The Atlantic 50, defined as “The all star team of the most influential commentators in the nation.” Premiere Radio Networks host Rush Limbaugh is ranked #2 on Atlantic’s list, while Premiere Radio Networks personality Glenn Beck (#7) is the only …

RadioTime Inc., a developer of technology for finding and listening to radio online, has released the first RadioTime.com Top 19 Programs, a list of the most listened-to programs on RadioTime.com for the month of June 2009. The inaugural list is dominated by well known syndicated radio talkers but also shows how RadioTime enables listeners to discover lesser-known shows airing around the world.The five most popular programs are “Rush Limbaugh,” “Steve Harvey,” “The Savage Nation,” “Glenn Beck” …

Forbes Magazines latest Celebrity 100 list calls Premiere Network’s syndicated radio maven Rush Limbaugh “the country’s most listened-to (and perhaps most polarizing) radio host.” Limbaugh earns $54 million, and was listed as #23 in the Forbes list. XM/Sirius talker Howard Stern, who ranked #34, earned $70 million. Ryan Seacrest was ranked #44, earning $38 million. Also making the Forbes list was Glenn Beck at #81, earning $23 million. Oprah Winfrey who also claims a XM/Sirius …

Here’s Glenn Beck’s response to his embarrassing appearance on “The View” last week. But wait…he doesn’t show up for his show the day after “The View” because he has the “24 hour Swine Flu”? The 24-hour-swine-flu… Whoopi Goldberg didn’t last very long as a radio talent but she’s a great judge of character.

Glenn Beck has a reputation for embellishing a story. Fine theatre…just don’t try to do it with Barbara Walters and Whoopi Goldberg and then show up on “The View.”