List: The 10 Most Influential Radio Personalities

With mobile and online listening emerging as it has, especially with young listeners, it’s easy to think the idea of public radio might be losing ground. Yet, there are still a lot of listeners in radio who want to hear interesting original stories, the kind that This American Life and other public radio shows excel at. But even the public radio format has gotten hip with the times and some of their most popular shows are often available in podcast form.

Conservative talk radio has many of the highest-rated shows in the medium. A resurgence in the format began in the 1990’s and it continues to dominate progressive talk radio. Conservative shows vastly outnumber progressive radio programs and usually have two to three channels in each market compared to one progressive channel.

With the current state of radio being as diluted and fractured as it is, Max Blatherwick at therichest.com writes there are still voices and broadcasters come out above the rest. They are the ones who have built huge audiences, who broadcast to millions of people. They have figured out a way to insert their unique personality into the public consciousness. The most influential radio personalities are the ones who have carved out a particular niche, which has helped elevate their voices above the rest of the chatter.

The Richest has come up with a list of the 10 Most Influential Radio Personalities.  There are some surprises.  On the list, the usual suspects such as Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern.  But also making the list are Delilah, and NPR’s Terri Gross.  Find out the entire Top 10 List and the ranked order:  Click Here.