The top radio talk-show hosts

<a href="http://www.talkers.com/main/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19&Itemid=44">Talkers Magazine has its list of the top 100 talk-show hosts.</a> No surprise that Rush Limbaugh is No. 1.

What's interesting is which sports talk-show hosts are on the lists and who aren't.

Sports shows (or shows by sports columnists) in the top 100:

• 29. Jim Rome
• 42. Mike & the Mad Dog
• 47. Mike & Mike
• 60. Mitch Albom (WJR in Detroit)
• 63. Boomer & Carton- WFAN in New York
• 91. Glenn Ordway- WEEI in Boston

Glad to see Colin Cowherd DIDN'T make the list. He did make the list of the best of the rest sports talk-show hosts, along with:

Among the non-sports shows in the top 100, one I've used to love (which doesn't air in my market) is Bob and Tom. Hilarious comedy show.

 

The Junkies are money.

 

Howard Stern shouldn't be just one spot ahead of Mancow, even though I agree with Mancow a lot more. And no Click and Clack (Tom and Ray) in the top 100? FAIL

 

Mancow is a fucking fraud and a hypocrite. All of a sudden, he's found Jesus and risque material has no place on the airwaves, as he goes on Fox News Channel now and then to preach.
Have fun on your 3 5,000-watt stations in Podunk, douchebag.

 

Huh. I guess I meant I agreed, in the past tense, because I had no idea he had done that. Maybe I'd still agree with him and all, but I don't think I've heard this new Mancow. Anyway, still a fail list with no Click and Clack.

 

The new Mancow is a fake. And that's why he is on basically no stations. He can't even get cleared in Chicago. And the only Top 10 market he's in? San Fran, on a 5,000-watt station from 3-6AM. It's not even live.

 

George Noory is only No. 26? I like to scan the airwaves from time to time, late at night, just to see what I can pick up. Did it in my car a couple months back and every friggin' AM station I could find had his show on it. Must've been 10 or 15 stations, from a pretty wide geographical area and including some big stations (San Antonio and New Orleans, to name two). I'd have figured the dude was a titan.

 

Funny this subject should come up. For no reason whatsoever, I was just thinking yesterday about how awful sports talk radio in general is. I used to listen all the time, but the more I do, the less I like it. Now, there are only two sports talk shows I can bring myself to listyen to for more than 15 seconds without flipping the dial, and I live in a market with two all-sports stations. The two I listen to, BTW, are local. I can't stand any of the national guys that air here (as well as the other locals).

The reality is, there is no best. They all suck.

 

I would say The Dan Patrick show when he was on ESPN Radio

 

I do not disagree. But Mancow? He's a little bit hurrrrting. Big, big O&A fan. One of the few reasons I keep paying XM every month.