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 …

SIRIUS XM Radio talk show host Joe Madison has called on RNC Chairman Michael Steele, and DNC Chairman Tim Cain, to suspend all political fundraising for 90 days and to ask their contributors to support the relief effort in Haiti “in the spirit of bipartisanship and in the name of humanity.” There’s been no response yet from the two party Chairmen.

Black Talkers a new website dedicated to covering talk radio targeted to the African-American community, has released it’s  “Black Talkers Talented 10″ (radio) list. Joe Madison of WOL Washington and XM radio is at the top of what Black Talk founder Rob Redding calls  “The definitive list of top black radio talk show hosts in the talk media industry.”  The list includes a number of syndicated radio talkers, with Syndication One personality Al …

The swearing in ceremony is over and Barack Obama is now officially the 44th President of the United States of America. And while the millions of people who descended upon Washington and millions more across the country prepare for the balls and celebrations and to move the country in a new direction, you may want to take few minutes and look at the video of the Obama Radio Nation 2009 broadcast that was aired live …

The media ‘s embrace of Barack Obama continues to astound. On Sunday January 18th a panel of nationally syndicated progressive talk hosts will gather at George Washington University’s Lisner Auditorium for a three-hour live national radio broadcast to celebrate the inauguration of Mr. Obama as the nations 44th President.

WOL Washington’s Madison along with Air America’s Thom Hartmann, Talk Radio Networks Rusty Humphries and a few others are broadcasting from the Sudan this month, focusing on the “Sacks of Hope ” relief effort as well as physically helping out with distribution. With all of the trivialities that we are bombarded with from the media on a daily basis, the fact that there is some actual work being done to keep this tragedy top-of-mind is …