Fox News weekend anchor and correspondent Geraldo Rivera has signed a deal with Cumulus Media to host 10am to noon on WABC-AM New York.  Rivera starts his new gig on January 3 replacing Joe Crummey who ended his show last week. Cumulus is hoping that Rivera, who is a Republican but expresses liberal views on issues like immigration and abortion, will broaden WABC’s audience which is best known for having the conservative heavy hitters Rush …

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 …

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 …

Premiere Radio Networks syndicated radio talk superstar and media icon Rush Limbaugh, tops the list on TALKERS magazine’s new “HEAVIEST HUNDRED: The 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts of All Time” which appears in the trade magazine’s July/August 20th Anniversary Issue. The entire list will be released early next week and includes such diverse radio figures as Limbaugh, Arthur Godfrey and Barry Gray.

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 …

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 …

Syndication One syndicated radio talker Rev. Al Sharpton is putting  some heat on Rush Limbaugh ‘s bid to acquire an NFL team. Sharpton, responding  to Limbaugh’s  announcement last week that a group headed by Limbaugh and St. Louis Blues owner Dave Checketts were in the running to buy the St. Louis Rams, wrote a letter to NFL commissioner Rodger Goodell requesting a meeting to discuss reasons why the NFL should reject the bid.  …

The St. Louis Rams have moved from shopping the team to evaluating bids and Premiere Radio Network talker Rush Limbaugh has confirmed that he has an offer on the table to buy the NFL franchise.  In a statement issued to his St. Louis affiliate KMOX, Limbaugh acknowledged that he and St. Louis Blues owner Dave Checketts are trying to buy the team. “Dave and I are part of a bid to buy the Rams and …