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Program Note:  Every Saturday 6P-10P and Sunday 6P-11P - Old Time Radio Shows from "The Golden Age of Radio Theater"!  The Golden Age of Radio Theater features programs like Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Fibber McGee & Molly, The Life of Riley, A Man Called X, The Haunting Hour, Duffy's Tavern, X Minus One and more!  Broadcast every Saturday 6PM - 10PM & Sunday 6PM - 11PM on

 

 

Frontlines of Freedom’ Wins Michigan Association of Broadcasters Award! - The weekly military news/talk radio program, “Frontlines of Freedom,” hosted by Lt. Col. Denny Gillem, U.S. Army (Retired) (pictured here at right), wins “Best in Category” Regularly Scheduled Weekend Broadcast Personality or Team; and “Best in Category” Special Show Broadcast Personality from the Michigan Broadcasters Association.  Gillem says, “To be recognized again for producing a top-notch program is not only good for our show’s team, but it sends the message to all radio stations that you too can add winning shows to your station’s weekend schedule.  Our affiliates already know that, and we thank them for it.”  Executive producer Josh Leng (pictured at left) notes, “We made the decision to expand ‘Frontlines of Freedom’ to two hours based on listener response, the host’s desire, advertiser demand, and radio program directors’ feedback to have a longer show that offers a better TSL opportunity to improve their ratings.  The two-hour program also ensures we always have enough time to fully cover all the important military news and issues of the day.”

Frontlines of Freedom Show Website

or Email Lt. Col. Denny Gillem at http://frontlinesoffreedom.com/contact/

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This lively and entertaining syndicated radio show provides a different kind of approach to helping people build wealth and eliminate personal debt. Forget about stock analysis, portfolios, investments and interest rates – this is NOT your typical financial show! Instead, show topics range from credit card and budgeting strategies – to negotiating mortgages, business start‐ups and success stories. Listener Q&A, motivational and practical tips combine to give the audience actionable ideas for saving money, building personal wealth or starting a new business.

Hosted by international speaker and recognized real estate & finance expert Chip Cummings, this info-packed show provides insights and interviews with a variety of nationally renowned experts and authors, combined with listener questions in a fun and fast-paced format! Chip is a #1 best‐selling author of eight books, who regularly appears on the FOX Morning Show, FOX & Friends, Wall Street Journal, and many other media programs. He was a featured guest on the cable TV series “Sweat Equity”, and has over $1 Billion in sales volume under his belt. At his side providing commentary, is Tony Rubleski. Tony is also a featured speaker, best‐selling author and renowned expert at teaching people the “mindset” for professional achievement. Their clients include many Fortune 500 companies and international clients, and together they bring an energy that’s focused on total personal success for the listener!

One of the greatest features of the radio show is the variety of noted national guest experts. Interviews with dynamic personalities such as Sharon Lechter (Rich Dad Poor Dad®), John Cummuta (best-selling financial author), Les Brown (world business motivational speaker), Lisa Lloyd (ABC’s Shark Tank), Brian Tracy (business expert), as well as authors, business and financial experts from every walk of life. Each guest brings practical tips, experience and a unique perspective to the topic each week!

Financial Fitness Show Website

Facebook.com/TheFinancialFitnessShow

Call the show 888-696-7747

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The Kim Komando Show airs live 10A - 1P Saturdays on

''She's that big!'' -- CBS News

She's a "Digital Goddess"!  Her moniker says it all.  Everything digital is featured on her weekly show.  It isn't just about computers anymore!

Kim's weekly three-hour call-in talk radio show is heard (via her own national radio network called WestStar) on over 470 stations.  In addition, she has written ten books about life in the digital age; sends out close to 10 million e-mail newsletters weekly; and authors a widely syndicated newspaper column, which also runs in USA Today.com.  She does all of this, while raising a son and operating a growing media empire, with her husband and associate, Barry Young.  “I am relentless in my pursuits,” says Kim.  “It’s a lot of hard work, but when you dig what you do, it makes it a lot more fun.”

She's a pioneer in marketing and training for home computers, and recently won the 2007 Gracie Award.  She was voted by Talker's Magazine as "Woman of the Year" and is the answer to a question in the game Trivial Pursuit!  Kim has evolved into a national digital guru. “It’s not about techies and computer-troubleshooting anymore,” she says. “It’s now about a lifestyle – the lifestyle of a digital age.”  Most recently, she was a featured speaker while attending Fortune Magazines' 2009 Most Powerful Woman Summit, a prestigious meeting of the nation's top CEOs including Yahoo!, Xerox, Dupont and Warren Buffett.

No overnight success -  Kim has built a media legacy driven by her passion for "all things digital."  Born and raised in New Jersey, her father was a successful businessman.  Her mother was part of the team that developed the UNIX operating system.  Business and computer technology were a staple at home.  She fondly remembers: “When my father would ask me what I did in school, if I didn’t have anything noteworthy to tell him, he would make me read an article in the Wall Street Journal and then report back to him what I learned.”  It might not have been as much fun as playing with Ken and Barbie, but it made a lasting impression on Kim.

She graduated from high school at 16 and Arizona State University when she was 20.  By then, she had set up a successful business, training people to use their computers, “I’ll never forget one of my first classes. It had about 20 people in it, and in the front row was the president of a bank and next to him was an 8-year-old. I told the class to turn on their computers, and the kid leaned over to the bank president and said, ‘It’s that switch over there…’”

That business made Kim realize just how universal the computer age had become. She began envisioning her empire, which would come in less than 10 years.  After stints at IBM and AT&T in sales, Kim joined Unisys, selling mainframe systems to big clients, including Motorola, Hughes and, in particular, Honeywell.  The latter was embroiled in a lawsuit with Unisys when Kim got the account, “It was assumed I was going to die on the vine,” she remembers. But Kim sold Honeywell a system for $12 million, cash.

Leaves corporate life for good -  With a nice commission, Kim decided to focus on a column about computers for the Arizona Business Gazette, “I called this gal at that paper every day for a year,” she remembers. “I knew there was a need for a regular column on computers. No one was doing this.  Eventually, I was given a small column to write, and soon after, I tried to syndicate it to other papers.”  The newspaper column led to a call-in talk show about computers, which aired late at night on KFYI in Phoenix.

It was small beginnings, but the bug had bitten her. On January 1st, 1992, only seven years after graduating from college, she made a big career change: dishing out advice to consumers via print and radio outlets.  When she told her folks, she said, they were convinced she was out of her mind. The column and radio show combined earned her only $60 a week, “My dad thought I was crazy,” she adds, laughing. “He offered to help carry me through, but I had the money from the big Unisys commission check, so I said I would make it on my own.”

A terrible loss -  Then, as Komando embarked on her new path, tragedy struck: Her fiancé died in a plane crash, “I was just so terribly devastated,” she recalls. “I had lost the one person that I was going to build a life with. He was there, and then suddenly, he was gone.  Now, I had no job, and I did not have the capacity to work, either.  I was really distraught.”  Doctors offered short-term solutions, but none made sense to Komando, “The shrinks offered to put me on any drugs I wanted, such as Zoloft or Prozac, but I resisted.  I did not want to mask the grief; I wanted to go through it.  I knew that once I went through it, I could heal.  One of my doctors welcomed this but said that in order to do it successfully, I needed to stay busy."

Kim adopted a rigid discipline, “I would get up at 6 a.m. and run or bike, and exercise. I would come back home and do my columns, and work on a book. I also did a deal to write an infomercial about selling computer training tapes that I had developed.”  The infomercial was successful. Soon, Kim was enjoying her cut on over 150,000 sets of tape cassettes that had been sold, for $80 - $120 each, “I was getting some pretty healthy checks,” she says, smiling.  A second generation of tapes called Prodigy came soon after.  In the third generation, she included America Online. “When AOL was on board, I also negotiated a role running the online giant’s computer info section on the AOL site.”

While her career picked up, her life took another turn. Her father died very unexpectedly, "My mother came home from work and found my father under the Christmas tree.  He called me the night before he passed away that day. I still miss him so much.  I often think when making a decision... what would Daddy say?"

Soon after, Kim began a relationship with the man who would eventually become her business partner, husband and soul mate: Barry Young, “I actually met Barry while my fiancé, Jerry, was still alive," she said. "He worked as the program director of KFYI.”  It was Barry whom Kim called to confirm her fiancé's crash.  “I called Barry in the newsroom because I was trying to find out what had happened with Jerry’s plane.  I needed a straight scoop on the plane crash and I knew he could get it for me.

“I didn’t start dating again until 18 months later and Barry kept calling me and one day he told me he was in love with me, and I would say, ‘Yeah, I know, but we are just friends and you are not my type…’  But, like Kim, Barry was relentless, “He kept bugging me until I agreed to three dates. He said: ‘Go out with me three times and if, after the third date you still aren’t into me, we’ll go back to being just friends.’”  Kim gave in and had a great time on their dates.  Eventually, they were married, “It’s a very symbiotic relationship,” she says. “We balance each other out.  Barry is into the creative elements of our company,” she explains. “He can tell you what content a show will include, what works, what sounds the very best and precisely how to do the magic of radio.  His mind works like that.  I am just the opposite. I will sit in the same meeting and tell people how we’re going to market it and sell it to the national sponsors.”

Setting sights on national radio -  In the mid-1990s, as her show began to grow, she set up WestStar TalkRadio Network with Barry, “In order to take a radio show national, you start with the big networks like ABC and CBS to see if it is what they want.  It was 1994 and the guy at ABC told me a syndicated show with people talking about computers would never work. This was in 1994!”  Programmers at CBS Radio were even less enthusiastic.  She laughs, “They told me computers and the Internet were a fad... it would never go.  They said computers are like the pet rock.”

Convinced a national audience existed for her show, she and Barry forged onward, station-by-station, syndicating them with their firm called WestStar.  Kim’s audience grew steadily.  Today, it has over 470 radio outlets and close to 10 million weekly listeners.  The company now also syndicates other national radio shows.  Kim and Barry built their first studio on a shoestring in 1994.  Today, they operate from a 6,000-square-foot state-of-the-art facility in Phoenix, with six studios and 30 employees.  The show airs weekends for three hours and receives 50,000 calls per hour.

Among Kim's pursuits have been a healthy balance of work and motherhood.  In 2000, her son, Lan, was born.  Until he was 4, he attended pre-school classes at the office with a state-certified teacher, “Being a mother is the greatest thing I have ever done,” says Kim, reflecting on her years of success. “It is better than anything I have done in business.  Lan and I are very, very close.  We spend a lot of time together.  I had to figure out how to be a stay-at-home mom and still be at work.”

Meanwhile, Kim and Barry are focusing on their growing business and their growing son, “I know this stuff.  I just do,” says Kim.  “I have worked in computers all my life.  I got my degree in computer information systems, and when I was in school, I learned to think like a computer.  They would say, 'If you do A and B, then C will happen,' and you can figure it out from there. You learn to think in a linear way, and I do that in my real life.  So, it just all makes sense to me.”

And by the looks of her success, it makes perfect sense to the rest of America, as well.

Kim Komando Show Website

Kim Komando Tech News

LIVE during the show...Phone: 1-888-825-5254
(Sat. 10am to 1pm)

or Email Kim at http://komando/email-kim.aspx

© 2013 WestStar Talk Radio Network

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                                             with Mike Avery

                                  "Michigan's #1 Outdoor Show"

 
          

Mike Avery Outdoors airs (pre-recorded) 7A - 10A Saturdays on

Outdoor Magazine Radio is Michigan’s number one outdoor radio show.  The three hour weekly program is heard on WIOS Saturday mornings at 7AM and the podcast is available on demand worldwide.  Each week Mike talks with outdoor experts and industry leaders about hunting, fishing and wildlife related issues in celebration of the outdoor lifestyle.  Learn about the latest hunting and fishing news and Mike has tips and suggestions on where to go and how to get the most from your next outdoor experience. Mike is joined each week by industry experts to discuss the latest techniques, strategy and equipment.  Mike also has "Dixie" Dave on almost every weekend to tell you about gourmet recipes and how to prepare your game for a wonderful dining experience.

Mike Avery Show Website   Mike's Blog

 

©2013 Michigan Radio Network / Outdoor Magazine TV Network / Mike Avery

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The Mark Levin Show airs live 6P - 9P Mon - Fri on

 

Mark Levin has become one of the hottest properties in Talk radio, his top-rated show on WABC New York is now syndicated nationally by Citadel Media Networks. He is also one of the top new authors in the conservative political arena. Mark's radio show on WABC in New York City skyrocketed to Number 1 on the AM dial in his first 18 months on the air in the competitive 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM time slot. Mark's book Men in Black was released February 7, 2005 and quickly climbed to Number 3 in the nation on the New York Times Best-Seller list. When your book is endorsed by Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, you know you have a winner on your hands. In a short period of time, Mark has become one of the most listened to local radio Talk show hosts in the nation.

Mark Levin took over the WABC 6:00 PM slot on September 2, 2003. Before that, he hosted a popular Sunday afternoon program. "He's smart, witty, and fast on the draw," according to WABC Program Director Phil Boyce. "He has this sharp sarcastic wit that can easily stun his opponents. I know I would not want to debate him." Mark's show follows the ever popular Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity on WABC, but everyday he manages to come up with a new twist on the day's top news events, as well as his own unique information. His passion and intellect have made him a favorite of tens of thousands of radio listeners in the New York City area.

Mark has been a frequent guest and substitute host on The Sean Hannity Show, and has also been an advisor to Limbaugh, who frequently refers to him on the air with the nickname "F. Lee Levin." He is perhaps more well-known for his nickname, "The Great One," coined by his friend Hannity.

Mark Levin is one of America's preeminent conservative commentators and constitutional lawyers. He's in great demand as a political and legal commentator, and has appeared on hundreds of television and radio programs. Levin is also a contributing editor for National Review Online, and writes frequently for other publications. Levin has served as a top advisor to several members of President Ronald Reagan's Cabinet - including as Chief of Staff to the Attorney General of the United States. In 2001, the American Conservative Union named Levin the recipient of the prestigious Ronald Reagan Award. He currently practices law in the private sector, heading up the prestigious Landmark Legal Foundation in Washington DC.

January 24th, 2013

Obama's first term: the change America was hoping for?

K.E. Campbell

On Mark Levin's radio program on Tuesday evening he cited a number of unflattering statistics regarding Barack Obama's first term, ones the fawning legacy media mostly filter out or otherwise gloss over. (See table below.) He also adroitly dissected the inauguration speech and ridiculed favorable comparisons of Obama to Ronald Reagan that are apparently en vogue. Levin played excerpts of Ronald Reagan's first inauguration speech and the contrast versus Obama was, of course, stark.

Levin's show, if you missed it, is worth a listen. That show plus others of his over the past two months are archived and available for download free here. A good synopsis of Levin's current assessment of our predicament is Comments. 

Though I don't know him personally, no public figure, in my opinion, better understands what is happening now in this country - the root causes and historical and philosophical context of the left's statist agenda - than Mark R. Levin. He is fearless, willing to call people out (no matter their party affiliation), and sometimes refreshingly politically incorrect. He is not afraid to publicly lend his support to truly conservative candidates for office, regardless of their name recognition or chances of victory. As to this country's founders, its founding documents, and first principles, Levin's knowledge is deep and his loyalty fierce. Levin puts his money and energy where his mouth is and isn't afraid to mix it up, politically and legally speaking. I will not be surprised if Levin plays a key role in the advancement of the next GOP standard bearer - to the chagrin of the Party establishment. 

Along the lines of the data cited by Levin on his program on Tuesday, I prepared the table below.  The statistics shown comport with the ones referenced by Levin, though I added some others of a similar nature

 

How to Contact the Mark Levin Show

Mark Levin Show Website

LIVE during the show...Phone: 1-877-381-3811
(Mon. - Fri. 6pm to 9pm)

or Email Mark at www.marklevinshow.com/contactus.asp

© 2013 ABC Radio Network - Cumulus Media

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Airs (pre-recorded) 9P - 12A Mon - Fri on

         

New York, NY – December 13, 2012 - Courtside Entertainment Group announced today a new agreement to distribute The Laura Ingraham Show to her national radio audience beginning January 2, 2013. Ingraham’s highly anticipated return to her more than 300 radio affiliates will offer audiences an expanded show experience and a heightened presence on new media platforms.

One of the most popular radio hosts in the United States, Ingraham returns to radio coast-to-coast, while significantly increasing her audience through Launchpad Digital Media, a division of Norm Pattiz’s Courtside Entertainment Group. Launchpad will digitally stream the three-hour program live online, make it available as an on-demand podcast, and feature new original content from Ingraham’s Dream in My Head Productions. The Laura Ingraham Show will be produced by Dream In My Head Productions with ad representation residing at Courtside.

“I guess this means putting aside my xylophone and modern dance ambitions,” Ingraham quipped. “I’m thrilled to partner with Norm Pattiz, who originally brought my show to radio in 2001 and humbled by the outpouring of affection from my listeners.  Courtside's commitment to our team, our audience, and stations will broaden the reach of the Laura Ingraham Show to new radio markets nationwide.  The exciting collaboration with Launchpad gives us the opportunity to establish a strong digital presence—a place where our audience can always find their ‘Healthy Radio Addiction’ on-demand and more. Via Dream In My Head Productions, my partner Raymond Arroyo and I are creating original digital programming and new television and multi-media content. 

“I look forward to resuming the conversation with the greatest audience in radio and those who have never listened before--making news, creating laughs, and talking about the things that really matter.  People need more laughter and fewer lectures; more fresh insights and fewer stale talking points.   Each day the Laura Ingraham Show will drive the national conversation with humor and inspiration for a nation that sorely needs it."

“The wait is over. The most listened to woman on political talk is returning to the national airwaves and is making a major move into the on-demand digital space,” said Norm Pattiz. “Laura Ingraham is one of the most popular and well-known personalities in America today. Recognizing the rapidly growing demand for great on-demand digital content, we are honored that Laura has chosen Launchpad to share her wit and wisdom with the widening online audience. Launchpad is currently delivering over 90 million downloads per month, and we are excited to continue adding powerful radio personas like Laura Ingraham to the expanding roster of Launchpad podcast offerings.”

Major programming executives are already reacting to the announcement:

Dave Houston, the GM of Ingraham's flagship WTNT in Washington, DC, said, "Since the announcement of Laura's radio hiatus, our listeners have been clamoring for her return.  This is fantastic news--her voice is unique and was sorely missed."

Laura Scotti, the General Manager at Crawford Broadcasting Company (Ingraham affiliates in Denver and Birmingham) enthused, "Laura Ingraham provides top quality programming which our listeners thoroughly enjoy. We all look forward to hearing her on air again.”

About Laura Ingraham

Laura Ingraham is the most listened-to woman in political talk radio in the United States. "The Laura Ingraham Show" is heard on hundreds of stations nationwide and has been addicting legions of listeners since its launch in 2001. Always smart and entertaining, Laura is a regular Fox News contributor and the principal substitute host on The O'Reilly Factor. She is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of five books: The Hillary TrapShut Up & SingPower to the PeopleThe Obama Diaries, and new smash hit Of Thee I Zing: America's Cultural Decline from Muffin Tops to Body Shots. A former litigator and Supreme Court law clerk, Laura is a graduate of University of Virginia School of law and Dartmouth College. She is also an avid supporter of our troops and a variety of military organizations. Laura lives in the Washington, D.C. area with her three children.

About Launchpad Digital Media

Launchpad Digital Media (www.launchpaddigitalmedia.com) is one of the largest players in the on-demand media world. Lead by digital, online and podcast sales pioneer Kit Gray, Launchpad’s podcast platform includes some of the biggest names in digital entertainment including Adam Carolla, CBS News, Afterbuzz TV with Maria Menounos, Jay Mohr, Dr. Drew, Chris Hardwick (The Nerdist), Mark & Lynda, Brian & Jill, and Penn Jillette.  Launchpad is also home to the Sideshow Network, The Fake Mustache Network, Riotcast Network, Splitsider Network and the Toad Hop Network making Launchpad one of the industry’s largest players.

About Courtside Entertainment Group

Courtside Entertainment Group produces and finances multi-platform, quality programming, including: Bill O’Reilly’s Talking Points, Loveline, One Minute Clinic with Dr. Drew Pinsky, The Dave Koz Show and a wide variety of music specials featuring exclusive interviews with the biggest names in every music genre.  Courtside is the latest venture from Westwood One founder, Norman Pattiz.

 
 

Laura Ingraham Website

© 2013 Courtside Entertainment LLC

 

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The Rusty Humphries Show airs (pre-recorded) 12A - 3A Tue - Sat on

 
The Rusty Humphries Show is a fast-paced, issue oriented, caller-driven talk show.  Rusty's unique talent can make you laugh one minute and cry the next as he challenges his listeners on the hottest topics of the day.  His matter-of-fact, common-sense delivery is highly entertaining and informative.  Rusty's high energy and passion transcends the radio and it feels as though he is in the same room with you. 

For the last six years in a row, Rusty has been named to Talkers Magazine's "Heavy 100".  Rusty was inducted into the Nevada Broadcasters' Hall of Fame as its youngest inductee ever. 

Rusty combines his unique, comic genius with his musical talent to sing and produce some of the best parodies in the business today.  It doesn't matter if it is a Rusty "Classic" or just made up on the spot, the audience loves them. 

Rusty is not afraid to say what he thinks, or how he feels.  At an early age, he lost his father in the Vietnam war and has been a passionate supporter of veterans' issues ever since.  While Rusty is extremely generous in all his charitable pursuits, he approaches charity as "help for those who truly need it" or "those that try to help themselves".  He is critical of wasteful government programs and the people that cheat those systems.

At only 44 years old, Rusty Humphries has been in the radio and music business for over 25 years. The nationally syndicated talk-personality is heard through The Talk Radio Network on over 250 radio stations nationwide and growing. He's also one of the only radio hosts heard on both XM and Sirius satellite radio.

Rusty has had a very successful and colorful career. He's been a contestant on The Wheel of Fortune, a tour guide at Universal Studios in Hollywood, and even a candidate for U.S. Senate. He has done numerous charitable activities such as working with US Troops in Iraq and sending children needed school supplies. He has sent US Troops DVDs for their enjoyment. He took a local cancer group, comprised of 16 children and their families, to Disneyland. He was responsible for bringing The Moving Vietnam Wall to his community; he’s helped the State of Nevada raise 1.5 million dollars for the WWII Memorial in Washington DC; and he’s been involved in countless other charitable projects in local communities across the nation.  Rusty actively involves himself in local communities in America's heartland, setting him apart from most talk show hosts, he sets the benchmark for talk show hosts getting involved at the local community level.

Rusty’s on air broadcasts have taken him to Iraq, Kuwait, England, Cuba, Mexico, Italy, and Israel (including Gaza and The West Bank). He has become an expert in military affairs. He regularly features some of America's solders and great leaders live from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. He has direct connections to the Pentagon and Centcom (US Central Command). 

Rusty has been named one of America's 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts eight years in a row and was nominated as Talk Personality Of The Year by Radio and Records. He was inducted into the Nevada Broadcasters Hall of Fame as its youngest inductee ever. Later, Humphries was named Celebrity of the Year by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. 

For more than 10 years Rusty was the Executive Director of TM Century Morning Show Services. His company provided parody songs, music, and jingles to over 300 morning radio shows in America with an additional 500 stations worldwide via The Armed Forces Radio Network. 

Rusty has hosted radio shows in New York City, Dallas, San Diego, Atlanta, and Ft. Wayne. He has also worked at radio stations in Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, Kansas City, and Portland, Oregon.

Rusty is a singer/songwriter. In addition to writing more radio morning show jingles than anyone alive (heard on radio stations all over the world), his song, Do The Bart Simpson, made national charts and was the inspiration for The Simpson's Multi-platinum CD. 

Humphries has produced five musical CDs including "Bomb Iraq - Rusty Humphries Takes on the Terrorists," which was the largest selling CD in laugh.com history. The recording company is partially owned by George Carlin and features the largest selection of recorded humorists available such as Ray Ramano, Woody Allen, and Robin Williams to name just a few. His CD "Greeting From America - Wish You Were Here" was a "best of" collection made specifically for the troops in harm's way; it featured songs and well wishes from radio listeners from across the country.

Rusty is currently working on several things: growing his syndicated radio show; writing a book; planning a concert tour; and developing a TV show. He considers his passion for children's and veterans’ issues to be the most important parts of his career. 

Rusty is recently widowed; his wife, Ami Kathleen, died in 2008 after a long-battle with interstitial cystitis. Rusty raises his two daughters, Katelynn and Karaline, as a single parent.

The Rusty Humphries Show is featured in great cities across America like San Francisco, Tampa, Houston, Orlando, Seattle, Oklahoma City, Atlanta, Norfolk, Cleveland, Honolulu, and your town (hopefully). 

Listen for Rusty's quick wit and sincere passion as he engages his caller and audience in the hottest conversations of the day.

800-449-TALK (8255)

Rusty Humphries Website

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Troubleshooting: AT&T Uverse™ users may not be able to listen to WIOS media stream with the Motorola™ 2210-02-1ATT modem due to un-configurable port blocking. There is NO work-around for this modem. Uverse™ users using a 2Wire 2701HGV-B for their HSI ADSL2/2+ service can use the internal routing settings to permit passthrough for port 1755 to listen to the WIOS media stream. If a Motorola™ Netopia™ modem came with your Uverse™ setup, configure it like the 2701HGV-B to allow port 1755 passthrough. AT&T™ standard DSL users, Radio Wireless and Cable ISP systems should work normally with no DMZ or port passthrough needed in the router/modem. Please consult your ISP if you are have problems listening to WIOS online. Symantec™ End Point Protection users must disable "Enable Stealth Web Browsing" under "Network Threat Protection" to listen to WIOS media streaming. Windows Media Player™ polls the encoder at the server for the the bit rate and version number, and SEP does not permit the polling to occur if "Stealth Browsing" is enabled. This is a known issue with SEP and no work-around is available except to "turn off" the stealth browsing mode. "Stealth Web Browsing" may be featured in other anti-virus software including Symantec™ products like Norton Anti-Virus™. Users are advised to check their anti-virus settings that may block Windows Media™ player. This affects all Windows Media™ players. If Windows Media Player™ experiences garbled reception make sure that "download codecs automatically" is selected under Tools/Options/Player tab, choose "Once a Day", "Once a Week", or "Once a Month", depending on your preference. Other times when WIOS cannot be heard may be due to unavailable network resources, ISP failure, or Edcast Media Encoder™ or Icecast Server™ may have crashed on our end due to overload of the server by exceeding our bandwidth. If you are still having difficulty receiving the WIOS stream after following these troubleshooting steps, feel free to contact Carroll Broadcasting at 989-362-3417 to let us know you are having reception problems so we may make certain the streaming broadcast is being sent from our studio. We can only give limited advice regarding your computer or Wi-Fi radio set, we do not provide support for the Microsoft™ streaming client, we only support the server (broadcast) end of the stream but we will be happy to help whenever we can. If you are still having problems, feel free to contact your nearest computer expert for assistance.
Streaming Technical: WIOS uses Icecast Server with Edcast Media Broadcaster on port 1755 and an MP3 Lame codec with a 64Kbps bit rate for the stream. Users will see a bit rate of up to 64Kbps at 44.1kHz (FM quality) in Windows Media Player, WinAmp, and other media players. Android and iOS phone users will see bit rates around the same rate when using the TuneIn Radio app for Android. We have ceased providing multicasts in different bit rates to prevent router congestion and streaming lock-ups on our end. The audio stream is broadcast in mono direct from our AM modulation monitor, you are hearing the same signal that is broadcast over the air (audio processing included). If you have an exceptionally good AM receiver with full 10kHz IF bandwidth, you will experience a hi-fidelity frequency response closely approximating that of the streaming service. WIOS's music is digitally "cleaned" and equalized to provide removal of most analog noise, clicks and pops along with crisper highs and deeper lows on older recordings where that range had been previously restricted.

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