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6th Most Listened to Talk Show
Mike Gallagher is one of America’s most entertaining
conservatives, displaying a sense of humor and timing
honed over three decades in the cauldron of local and
national radio talk show experience. Mike connects with
his audience in a vey personal way by creating compelling
programming targeted at the issues men and women all over
America really care about. He has used his program to
shine the white hot light of scrutiny on extremist groups
and political charletons. His regularly-scheduled one-on-one
interviews with people like U.S. Senator John McCain,
Vice- President Dick Cheney, former Massachusetts Governor
Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani and other leading conservatives
consistently generate national headlines. Mike continues
to be a leading contributor to the top-rated FOX News
Channel as well as a columnist at the leading conservative
website Townhall.com. His weekly sparring with Chris Wallace
of the FOX News Channel on his radio show is truly appointment
radio. And listeners have shared the joys and sorrows
of Mike’s family life, including his late wife Denise’s
courageous public battle with cancer.
Mike Gallagher doesn’t just jawbone the issues. He regularly
takes his audience wherever major stories are happening:
from his live broadcast from the Empire State Building
in New York City as jetliners were crashing into the World
Trade Center on 9/11; broadcasting live outside Columbine
High School the night of the horrific high school shootings
in Littleton, Colorado; to his solid reporting from the
2008 Democratic and Republican National Conventions; bringing
his listeners to the site of vicious tornadoes in Kansas
or originating his show from the aftermath of campus tragedy
at Blacksburg, Virginia. The Mike Gallagher Show is second
to none is bringing his radio audience live reports from
the scene of major events wherever and whenever they happen.
Mike Gallagher's road to being the 6th most listened-to
radio talk show host in the country (Talkers Magazine)
began in 1978 as a 17-year-old high school senior in Dayton,
Ohio. Mike talked his way into an on-air shift at WAVI-AM
in his Ohio hometown and has been talking on the radio
and television ever since. Mike's broadcasting career
has taken him from Dayton to WFBC-AM in Greenville, South
Carolina (now WORD-AM) where his ratings and revenue success
led to his eventual promotion to station manager. From
there, he became the afternoon drive-time leader in Albany,
New York on upstate powerhouse WGY-AM.
From Albany, it was just a short drive south to the nation's
number one market, New York City, where Mike enjoyed a
two year stint as morning drive host on WABC-AM, the nation's
most listened-to talk radio station. In 1998, The Mike
Gallagher Show was launched nationally with 12 radio stations.
Today, Talkers Magazine reports that he's the sixth most
listened-to talk radio host in America with over 3.75
million weekly listeners. He's heard daily in New York,
Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Detroit, Atlanta,
and Philadelphia as well as in small, medium and major
markets all over the country. According to the Benchmark
Company, he is the 8th most-recognized talk radio personality
in America. Mike has been featured in numerous magazines
and newspapers including the New York Times, the Wall
Street Journal, Time, and Forbes.
Mike is also an accomplished public speaker, frequently
being invited to speak on college campuses, civic organizations
and businesses. Recently, he was one of 35 speakers who
spoke to the annual conference of Young America's Foundation
in Washington, D.C. In a roster that included the great
George Will, Mike was voted the single most popular speaker
by the attendees.
Besides his talk radio duties, Mike is equally comfortable
in front of television cameras, too. He's a Fox News Channel
Contributor making frequent appearances on all of the
Fox News Channel programs as well as occasionally guest
hosting one of the talk shows on the cable news giant.
In addition to his busy broadcasting career, he's also
added "author" to his resume as he recently
wrote his first book, which became a New York Times Bestseller,
"Surrounded by Idiots -- Fighting Liberal Lunacy
in America", published by William Morrow, an imprint
of Harper Collins.
In addition to being wildly popular with listeners, Mike
is enormously respected by his peers in the radio industry.
At the start of 2006, he was chosen by the radio and music
industry trade magazine Radio and Records as one of the
nominees for "Nationally Syndicated Personality of
the Year" in the talk radio category. In the same
year, Talkers Magazine ranked Mike the 8th most influential
talk host in America, from a field of some 4,500. For
11 consecutive years, Mike has been included in Talkers
Magazine's prestigious "Heavy Hundred" List,
a compilation of the 100 most popular talk radio hosts
in the country. Mike's syndicator, Salem Radio Network,
is based in Irving, Texas (near Dallas) and his show's
offices and studios are in Irving as well as the world-famous
Empire State Building in New York City.
Mike's proudest achievement is his family. On the morning
of June 29, 2008, the love of his life, his wife Denise,
died at home after a valiant and dignified year-long battle
with endometrial cancer. She passed away the day before
her 52nd birthday. Mike was holding her when she died,
their four boys -- Bryan, Trevor, Matthew, and Micah --
all present as well, which is just how Denise wanted it.
Two of the Gallagher sons live in South Carolina, and
the other two live near Mike, which is a great comfort
to him. As he promised to Denise, Mike is sleeping each
night with beloved beagle Buster and puggle Rory, who
constantly shadowed her every move but now seem quite
content to take care of him.
Now in Mike’s 11th year of national syndication, the
combination of solid conservative values, a fast-paced,
fun delivery each day, and Mike’s first-name basis relationship
with leading newsmakers from coast-to-coast make The Mike
Gallagher Show one of the most consistently popular programs
on national radio today.
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