Mike Huckabee radio show ending [View all]
Source: Politico
Mike Huckabee’s radio show is done, the former Arkansas governor announced on Wednesday.
“The Mike Huckabee Show on radio, which was heard 3 hours a day on over 200 radio stations across the country since April of 2012 will conclude its run at the end of the final show on Thursday, December 12,” Huckabee wrote on Facebook.
“I have loved doing the Mike Huckabee Show, and it’s success of going from launch to over 200 stations in less than 2 years is significant, but the contract was at a decision point for both Cumulus Media and me, and we mutually agreed to conclude,” he added.
The show, nationally syndicated by Cumulus Media Networks, debuted in April 2012 and aired weekdays from noon to 3 p.m. Huckabee, who is also a Fox News host, competed in the timeslot against the number one talker in the country, Rush Limbaugh.
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I hope some of those stations replace Huckabee with Ed Schultz, whose show is also noon to 3 ET, and successfully convert some dittoheads to the other side of the aisle.
But as far as Cumulus stations that carry Huck's show live right now (KSFO in San Francisco, KLIF in Dallas) most likely they'll fill Huck's time slot with a local show or a delayed syndicated show like Glenn Beck (whose show is live 9am to noon). During the three months between moving Limbaugh to the local Clear Channel talk station (KKSF 910) and picking up Huckabee, KSFO 560 had former Rep. J.D. Hayworth as the interim 9am to noon (PT) host.
The Cumulus master schedule will be as of 1/1/14:
6am-10am (ET) Don Imus
10am-12pm (ET) ?
12pm-3pm (ET) ?
3pm-6pm (ET) Michael Savage
6pm-9pm (ET) Mark Levin
9pm-1am (ET) John Batchelor
1am-5am (ET) Red Eye Radio
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