Chance Meeting At Wedding Leads To Cumulus Talk Gig

Mike Rogers

Rep. Mike Rogers, a Republican House Member from Michicgan, recently announced his intention to resign.

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In March, he announced his decision to leave behind the “whole celebrity political class in Washington, D.C.” for what is expected to be a nationally syndicated talk gig with Cumulus Media.

According to NY Times magazine article this past Sunday, Rogers won his new job by being himself.

He was attending the recent wedding of Paul W. Smith, a radio host at WJR 760 AM in Detroit, where Rogers has appeared often as a guest. Rogers’s wife could not make the wedding, “so they put me at the third-wheel table or whatever,” Rogers recalls.

“And a bunch of us guys were yakking and chatting.”

During this informal audition, he met Smith’s boss, Lew Dickey, the C.E.O. of Cumulus. Later in the evening, Dickey asked Rogers if he had ever considered a career in radio. “You mean like being a wedding disc jockey?” Rogers asked.

They kept in touch over a few months, during which Dickey told him they were not looking for someone to replicate Limbaugh or Hannity. “I think there is room for a more productive, you-might-actually-learn-something kind of talk radio in the marketplace,” Rogers says.

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