Rush Limbaugh was on 660 stations. Dan Bongino will take over the time slot Rush Limbaugh used to occupy, but only on Cumulus Media, not iHeart radio.
Cumulus Media’s Westwood One announced on Wednesday that Dan Bongino will be launching a new radio show during the time slot left vacant by conservative talk radio icon Rush Limbaugh.
The program, “The Dan Bongino Show,” will broadcast from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. ET in select markets starting May 24, including KABC Los Angeles, WLS Chicago, WBAP Dallas, KSFO San Francisco, and WMAL Washington, D.C.
“The Dan Bongino Show will tackle the hot political issues, debunking both liberal and Republican establishment rhetoric,” the press release described. “As a former Secret Service agent and NYPD officer, Bongino is uniquely positioned to provide commentary and analysis that directly questions the philosophical underpinnings of both the Left and Big Government Republicans.”
Bongino, a Fox News contributor, said he was “excited to embrace the immense power of radio to connect with my listeners live for three hours every day. This is an incredible privilege, and I pledge to honor the trailblazing work of those who came before me.”
“Dan is passionate and relatable, with a natural ability to connect with his audience,” said Suzanne Grimes, Westwood One’s president, in a statement. “Dan has been on a meteoric rise since his podcast launched in 2019, and we look forward to watching his star continue to soar.”
The iconic radio host Rush Limbaugh passed away last month at 70 years old after battling lung cancer.
The two guys who replaced Rush in iheart radio are not very good. I have turned them off! Will listen to Dan Bongino online because the closest radio station cannot be heard in my house.
Dan Bongino is a FABULOUS choice. He has great experience and interesting perspective. iHeart better wake up, or they’ll lose me as a listener.
Steyn would have been an excellent choice, I like Dan a lot, too. From 10am – 12pm I have gravitated to Warroom with Steve Bannon (not on radio, on TV and internet).
Why not Steyn? I like Bongino tho’, he tells it like it is.
Rush can’t be replaced. Hosts have to earn and build audiences and because broadcast hosts are unique individuals, even if they share philosophy, the Rush audience will turn to various alternatives. Maybe the Rush audience will coalesce under a single substitute, but probably not.
I would have liked Mark Steyn to take Rush’s place. Mark Steyn has a great sense of humor and like his style.
Yeah, Mark Steyn
I agree. Nothing against Dan, but Mark Steyn is utterly amazing in his ability to switch immediately from his hilarious rapid-fire demolition of pompous propositions & personages to serious and penetrating analysis.
My vote goes to Mark Levine to replace Rush.
There was a great deal of talk, everywhere, about Bongino replacing Limbaugh. I had to come to the Independent Sentinel to discover that it is not all of Limbaugh’s time slots that Dan will be the replacement for. That’s an important detail. One that diminishes Dan’s influence, compared to Rush, significantly. I know that I can always rely on the IS for the whole story. That is why I’m here.
I like Dan as a person. He has admirable qualities. We all see that. Dan does a good job at getting down to the finer points of any issue, and always offers a unique, comprehensive, and understandable point of view. I am happy to see his apparent newly found success.
I try to listen to Dan whenever I can. He is one of the very few that I am willing to devote an hour a day of my time to. I cannot always do even that, but when I can, when time allows, I enjoy hearing Dan’s take on things. I fear Dan will take a one hour program, and stretch it into three hours, because I think that will cause fewer to listen. I would be one of those few.
I don’t like the optics of a man with Cancer replacing a man that died from Cancer. I believe, hope, and pray that Dan’s Cancer is in remission. If Dan somehow suffers the same fate as Rush, that would be a sadly remembered, and monumental tragedy.
Other wise, I’m happy for Dan, and excited to see what he “brings to the table.”
This is all.
Not sure if the FUX owned sports station that Rush was banished to locally will pick him up.
Ratings are down for sportsball and grampaw said 40 years ago that society would turn into a steaming pile while everyone played with balls.
It is a wasteland now with Savage going to pod only. I can’t do the Utah lineup with Glennie Beck passing out soccer balls to future lifetime democrat voters at the border, that is what’s on the local news talk AM station.
The local AM guy is an up and comer and might even go national, he is Red State for life and you can tell.
O/T-Is Neil Diamond available to sing Coming to America at the border?
We should make the replacements feel welcome as we go full Chiquitastan banana republic.
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