Kinosian: Rush Limbaugh Was Talk Radio’s ‘Premiere Songwriter.’ Writing after the news of Rush Limbaugh’s death yesterday (2/17) from lung cancer at age 70, TALKERS magazine managing editor Mike Kinosian says, “Greater than any other single talent, Limbaugh was widely credited for not only reinvigorating the politically geared talk show as we know it, but also for prolonging AM radio’s very existence. The aggregate amount of revenue he generated for operators of AM facilities carrying his daily talk show is nothing short of mindboggling.” Read Kinosian’s complete story here.

Rush Video Tribute. Above is a still from a video tribute to Rush Limbaugh from Radio’s Best Friend, Art Vuolo. His 20-minute video focuses on the early part of Limbaugh’s career and offers the viewer a perspective of Limbaugh’s program and of talk radio as it was in the early 1990s when the format was beginning its ascendance. See it here.

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Rush Limbaugh Dies, COVID-19 Stats & Vaccines, Winter Weather-Texas Power Woes, McConnell-Trump Spat, Future of GOP, Cuomo Investigation, and Social Media Censorship Among Top News/Talk Stories Yesterday (2/17). Talk radio legend Rush Limbaugh dies after a year-long battle with lung cancer; the declining number of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in the U.S, the concerns about variants, and the vaccines rollout; winter weather slams many parts of the U.S. and leaves millions without power in Texas; the sour relationship between Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump; the state of the GOP in the aftermath of the 2020 election; New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is being investigated for his handling of COVID nursing home deaths; and social media and censorship were some of the most-talked-about stories on news/talk radio yesterday, according to ongoing research from TALKERS magazine.

Howie Carr Is This Week’s Guest on Harrison Podcast. Longtime WRKO, Boston talk show icon, newspaper columnist, author, and independent syndicator Howie Carr is this week’s guest on the award-winning PodcastOne series, “The Michael Harrison Interview.” For years Carr has been a mainstay at WRKO where he is heard daily between 3:00 pm and 7:00 pm and has been a popular Boston Herald columnist covering City Hall – fighting organized crime and government corruption – even longer than that. Carr’s daily radio show has proven to be so popular in the Northeast that it has now expanded to some 25 stations across New England on his independent Howie Carr Radio Network. The network recently launched a spinoff – the Grace Curley Show – which is also heard on WRKO in middays. Carr, a Radio Hall of Fame inductee, is an award-winning writer and the New York Times best-selling author of several Boston organized-crime books, as well as a couple of novels. The conversation between Harrison and Carr was recorded yesterday (2/15) on Presidents Day and focuses largely on the participants’ view of the American presidency and particularly the current debate raging across the nation about the controversial political impact of Donald Trump. Don’t miss this fast-paced, friendly exercise in point-counterpoint debate! To listen to the podcast in its entirety, please click here or click on the player box marked “The Michael Harrison Interview” located in the right-hand column on every page of Talkers.com.

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