Sunday on Fox News Channel’s “Life, Liberty & Levin,” nationally syndicated radio talker Sean Hannity gave a shoutout to Huntsville as being the location for his first “big break” in radio.
Host and talk radio colleague Mark Levin asked Hannity where his big break was in the radio business. Hannity first mentioned his chance to fill-in for Rush Limbaugh, but he explained there was a progression of events that led him from doing radio for free to his being one of the top conservative talkers in America, which began in Huntsville on long-time talk station WVNN.
“The big break was a guy — Dave Stone and Bill Dunnavant, two guys, Huntsville, Alabama — my first paid radio gig,” Hannity said. “I was doing it for free up until then, and packed up what was my contracting work van and drove across the country. That was break one.”
“Break two was a guy by the name of ‘Sluggo,’ Eric Seidel in Atlanta, Georgia,” he added. “Neal Boortz, who is now a friend of both of ours, since retired. He left one station, referred to as ex-wife and moved to a bigger station and now I’m on that station ironically, WSB. And then, the big break was Fox News going on the air, and then that led to WABC, Roger Ailes and Phil Voice. I’m friends with every single person that hired me. I talk to them all. They all critique me to this day. If I do something they don’t like, ‘Sluggo’ is writing me, ‘Let them talk. Shut up.’ But, they care. I prefer the criticism rather than the compliment because that makes you better.”
@Jeff_Poor is a graduate of Auburn University and is the editor of Breitbart TV.
