Clay Travis and Buck Sexton to take over Rush Limbaugh’s radio show
Clay Travis and Buck Sexton are set to continue Rush Limbaugh’s legacy with their own show in June.
The duo is set to begin The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show on June 21, and it will air on hundreds of stations nationwide. Travis and Sexton are conservative voices grappling with the void that was left in the media ecosystem following Limbaugh’s death on Feb. 17.
“I could not be more excited to step onto the biggest platform in radio with my fantastic co-host, Clay Travis,” Sexton told the Washington Examiner. “We’re going to do a show that will make Rush listeners proud and bring a new generation of audience to the table.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/travis-sexton-limbaugh-radio-show-conservative
I like Dan but he’s not a radio guy. People like Rush, Beck, Maddow and Wilcow were radio people (DJs) before they became talk show hosts. They understood the business and how to handle an audience and manage the clock long before they started as talk show hosts. To seasoned hosts, five seconds is a lifetime, to Dan it just means he has to talk faster.
Radio people know how to make the content about the audience, “playing your favorite songs” or “topics we need to discuss” whereas Dan makes it too much about himself when most people don’t even know him yet. He needs to slow down.
Rush would have an occasional “4th hour” and frequently stated that he ran out of time long before he ran out of topics.
I give him six months to get into game shape and start to make the connection with the audiences.