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6th Most Listened to Talk Show
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. He was
also host of the popular "Tiger Tailgate Show"
on the Clemson Football Radio Network. 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 in top ten markets like Los Angeles,
Chicago, Dallas, Boston, Houston, and Philadelphia as
well as cities all over the country, and is the 8th most
recognized talk radio personality in America (The Benchmark
Company). Mike has been featured in numerous magazines
and newspapers including the New York Times, the Wall
Street Journal, Time, and Forbes.
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.
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