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Talkers Mag's 100 Most Important Of All Time... Bill O'Reilly Is On The List????

DToTheJ said:
http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/Talkers--Top--Radio--talk-shows--Heaviest/2010/08/01/id/366238

How on Earth is Bill O'Reilly on this list of the "heaviest hundred"? He didn't have a very good radio show, in fact, paled very, very much in comparison to his television show. You know, kinda like one of those "don't quit your day job" kinda things... FYI, he did rank 70th.
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Given how few talk hosts jobs there are with most talk stations being nothing but carriers for syndicated shows 24/7/365, I think it would be difficult to come up with 100 names, period.
 
Think "Talk media"

First the disclaimer: I'm part of Team Talkers.
And you can be too, by doing what I did years ago: show up.
Write something, and send it in.
Join the conversation, at radio programming's sole surviving major hard copy trade publication.

As for O'Reilly: The numbers don't lie. Though cable ratings are low, compared to network TV audience, OR RADIO AUDIENCE, O'Reilly's TV hour usually beats other same-hour cable news/talk shows. So, measurably, he's one of the top (small "T") talkers, right?

And you'll notice that, YEARS AGO, (capital "T") Talkers magazine ceased to be only-about-radio. You can't help-but notice if you're smart-enough to show-up at talk media's biggest annual conference...the-very-first-one-of-which, in 1998, was already called its "New Media Seminar."

So why wouldn't a top talker like O'Reilly be on-a-list-of what-the-magazine-explains-to-be the top talkers of all time?

And applause for Arthur Godfrey in the top 10. And other pioneers like Howard Cossell and Joe Pyne and The Fabulous Sports Babe.

Small-T talkers talk(ed) on radio, on TV, on the Internet, and wherever else conversation finds traction. And you can too, as you'll read on page 30 of the current issue.

HC
www.HollandCooke.com
 
Further, O'Reilly's Radio Factor was TONS better, more civil, and more moderate than the TV show. Even after he announced his retirement from radio, I heard about it from listeners. A few of them still think WE cancelled him....
 
As I've pointed out in another thread, the Talkers list is mainly used to stimulate discussion of the talk entertainment industry. Why else would a nobody like Mancow be consistently near the top of the list?
 
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