Posted on 03/18/2021 5:03:29 AM PDT by Red Badger
Cumulus Media and Westwood One have agreed to terms with conservative commentator Dan Bongino to host a daily three-hour show from 12-3pm eastern.
Bongino currently hosts a daily podcast for Westwood One that since March 2020 has been repurposed into a one-hour syndicated show on over 100 stations including 790 KABC Los Angeles and 560 KSFO San Francisco.
The new show would air live in the timeslot currently held by Limbaugh on many if not all Cumulus owned Conservative Talk and News Talk stations.
Bongino is a former NYPD officer and Secret Service agent turned conservative pundit and investor in digital properties including Parler and Rumble. He has previously served as a fill-in host at WMAL Washington and WBAL Baltimore and multiple syndicated talkers including Sean Hannity.
An official announcement should be forthcoming by early next week.
People do not realize how much work goes into being on the radio for three hours every day. It takes discipline, research and organization. Reading news is one thing but talking about ideas and concepts is another.
I like Marc Steyn.. I thought he was the best fill in guy on the show..
It’s fine to go back and forth between Rush/Bongino and Prager. As soon as they hit a commercial, switch.
“ Love Dans show he’ll do ok”
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Ummm, politically and philosophically he’s solid. But, not sure I can take his shrill voice day in and day out. Might be too much for me....
Levin said yesterday he had a blockbuster coming. Anybody have any idea what that is about?
Love Dan! He is fighting cancer too.
This may have been it.................
Couldn’t agree more. I think Prager - who I really like as well - just works better when he has someone to play off of. For the last couple of years, he’s done a lot of programs with Adam Carolla with Prager playing the religious social conservative and Carolla playing the agnostic traditional, small-government conservative. That worked well because it was both complimentary and entertaining.
You gotta be entertaining to some degree.
He’s been better than Rush for years?
That must be why I’ve not heard of him before now.
Agree
He had a reverence for Rush And his audience. That’s the basic job requirement most don’t have.
I like Dan. I think he’ll do well. Much better than Erik Ericsson.
Well, I only do youtube now for that kind of stuff, and I use the Avast browser, which automatically edits out commercials. So I never see commercials. :)
I like Dan, I have doubts he can hold it for three hours, would have preferred Mark Steyn (Rush’s favorite I believe).
So happy for Dan. I wish him all the luck in the world. He is not Rush and I don’t expect him to be.
Rush would want us to move forward and get our country back!
One of the ways Rush did it was to hold off getting to the point and talk all around it. Back in the early days it nearly drove me crazy.
People keep posting this misleading headline. Dan Bongino is NOT “replacing” Rush. This ONLY applies to Cumulus affiliates. Rush is syndicated by Premiere and iHeart Media. There is no word YET on what is going to become of Rush’s show.
Bongino is an incredibly smart and aggressive Conservative.
Here, we have Cumulus or nothing.....................
I have not listened to his radio program, however.
I like his truculence.
He is also fighting cancer - in his neck, as I recall.
I think he might be a good choice to replace Rush.
Unfortunately, head and neck cancers are very dangerous, so that could become an issue again, in the near future.
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