Host Gordon Deal Named to Talkers Magazine’s 2010 Heavy Hundred
NEW YORK (March 4, 2010)
Gordon Deal, host of The Wall Street Journal This Morning and The Wall Street Journal This Weekend radio programs is named to Talker’s Magazine’s Heavy Hundred – the 100 most important radio talk show hosts in America. Gordon joins a talented group of radio talk show hosts including Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Dave Ramsey, Don Imus, Kim Komando and Howard Stern. This annual list is compiled by the editors of Talkers Magazine, with input from industry leaders, and attempts to “reflect the industry’s diversity and total flavor” and selects the Heavy Hundred from thousands of talk hosts from across the nation.
Gordon Deal has been the host of The Wall Street Journal This Morning and The Wall Street Journal This Weekend since 2005. “Gordon brings a perfect blend of news, money news, personality and humor to morning radio. We are proud that Talkers has named him to their Heavy Hundred list,” said Nancy Abramson, executive director, The Wall Street Journal Radio Network.
The Wall Street Journal This Morning is produced by The Wall Street Journal Radio Network and is heard on 173 radio stations across America.
Talkers Magazine is a leading trade magazine that serves the talk media industries. The entire Heavy Hundred list may be viewed on the Talkers Magazine website.
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About The Wall Street Journal Radio Network
The Wall Street Journal Radio Network (http://www.wsjradio.com) has been the leading provider of business-news programming for radio stations in the United States for more than 25 years. The network serves listeners on 396 radio stations with late-breaking business, consumer spending and financial-market news around the clock. The network is home to The Wall Street Journal Report, the Dow Jones Money Report, and Watching Your Wallet, Barron’s on Investment, The Wall Street Journal This Morning and The Wall Street Journal This Weekend.
Business-news reports from The Wall Street Journal Radio Network are carried on the leading radio stations in the country – including WCBS-AM, New York; KABC-AM, Los Angeles; WLS-AM, Chicago; KGO-AM/KSFO-AM, San Francisco; WMAL-AM, Washington, D.C.; WWJ-AM, Detroit; KTRH-AM, Houston; WLW-AM, Cincinnati; and KSTP-AM Minneapolis. The Wall Street Journal This Morning is heard on 168 stations including WLS-AM Chicago, WPGB-FM Pittsburgh, WRKO-AM Boston and KNEW-AM San Francisco.
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