Todd Herman

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Todd Herman
Born
Todd Eugene Herman

1966or1967(age 55–56) [1]
Career
Show"The Todd Herman Show"
"The Rush Limbaugh Show" (rotating host)
Station(s) KTTH
Show“The Candy, Mike and Todd Show”
Station(s) KIRO-FM
Country United States
Website thetoddhermanshow.com

Todd Herman is an American radio show host, digital political strategist, and public speaker. He hosted The Todd Herman Show on KTTH in Seattle and was a regular rotating host on The Rush Limbaugh Show . He was co-chief digital strategist for the Republican National Committee 2009 to 2011, and founded several media companies before being a conservative talk radio host.

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Career

Business

Herman was president and chief evangelizing officer of theDial (formerly TheDial.com), a start-up Internet radio company. The company was based in Salt Lake City before moving to Seattle in 1999, when it had 22 staff members. [2] The company was ultimately acquired by Loudeye. [3] Herman then joined Microsoft's MSN, [1] and was involved in the creation of its MSN Video business unit. [4] He held the position of Streaming Media Evangelist at MSNBC.com and then General Manager, Media Strategy and Monetization for MSN. [5] He left Microsoft in September 2007. [5] Herman was founder and chief creative officer for SpinSpotter, a software add-on designed to detect "personal voice, passive voice, biased source, disregarded context, selective disclosure, lack of balance and over-reliance on news releases" in journalism. [1] The company had 14 employees in 2008. [1]

In March 2009, after leaving Microsoft, Herman was hired as Director of New Media for the Republican National Committee (RNC), [5] [3] taking up the job the following month. [5] In that role, he oversaw the national Republican Party's digital strategy. [6] In 2010, Herman posted a personal tweet suggesting that President Barack Obama was a Muslim; the RNC distanced itself from Herman's tweet. [7]

Herman co-founded Crowdverb, a social media monitoring startup, in 2011; it was acquired in 2012 by Washington, D.C.-based Direct Impact, a unit of Burson-Marsteller. [6]

Radio

In September 2015, Herman became afternoon host at the Seattle conservative talk radio station KTTH (AM 770) in Seattle when Ben Shapiro left the slot open. [8] [4] At KTTH Herman worked alongside other conservative talk show hosts David Boze and Michael Medved. [8]

In January 2019 Herman became co-host (along with Candy Harper and Mike Lewis) of The Candy, Mike and Todd Show on KIRO; the program replaced the Ron and Don Show, which had aired for 13 years. [9] The show ran in the 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. time slot for one year, ending in January 2020. [10] [11] Herman returned to KTTH to host during morning drive time in March 2020, replacing "morning personality" Saul Spady. [12] [13]

Herman has expressed support for the "FairTax," a proposal to abolish income and payroll taxes and replace them with a flat sales tax. [14]

Herman filled in regularly as a guest host on the nationally syndicated Rush Limbaugh Show . [8] [15] In January 2021, while a guest host on Limbaugh's show, Herman suggested that the perpetrators of the U.S. Capitol attack might have been "Antifa" or "BLM". The disinformation circulated widely among Trump supporters. Subsequently, in late February 2021, Herman acknowledged that "it was clear a large group of Trump supporters entered the Capitol and assaulted people" but continued to make the claim that antifa activists had planned to impersonate Trump supporters. [16]

Herman announced his retirement from his KTTH show in November 2021, with the intent to launch a podcast afterward. The podcast will have a more religious focus than his radio show. [17] The radio show ended on December 1, 2021. [18]

In October 2022 Radio America signed a new distribution and sales agreement with Herman's daily podcast and a new weekly Todd Herman Radio Show to launch November 5, 2022. [19] He guest-hosted for The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show in 2022. [20]

In January 2023 Herman was added to the line-up of the Seattle talk radio station KVI (570 AM) with a show running Sundays 5-7 p.m. plus daily commentary segments for other KVI shows. [21]

Personal

Herman considers himself a "college dropout" [15] [ failed verification ] and a "lifetime Washingtonian". [4]

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  2. ↑ Steve Ernst, TheDial lands first deals to put its audio on Web, Seattle Business Journal (October 31, 1999).
  3. 1 2 Leena Rao, Former MSN Exec Named RNC New Media Director, TechCrunch (March 23, 2009).
  4. 1 2 3 "Todd Herman to Host KTTH-AM/Seattle Afternoons". news.radio-online.com. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
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  6. 1 2 Cook, John (2012-04-04). "Direct Impact buys Crowdverb to bolster 'grassroots' campaigns". GeekWire. Retrieved 2020-07-24.
  7. ↑ Sam Stein, RNC Distances Itself From New Media Director Todd Herman's Obama-Muslim Tweet, Huffington Post (2010).
  8. 1 2 3 "Todd Herman To Host Afternoons On KTTH/Seattle". All Access. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  9. ↑ "Not even a goodbye: KIRO abruptly cancels 'The Ron & Don Show'". The Seattle Times. 2019-01-12. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  10. ↑ Lance Venta (January 27, 2020). "KIRO-FM Announces Revised Weekday Lineup". RadioInsight.
  11. ↑ "Todd Herman – TALKERS magazine – "The bible of talk media."". TALKERS magazine - “The bible of talk media.”. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  12. ↑ Cherry, Mike. "Todd Herman to KTTH morning drive" . Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  13. ↑ "Todd Herman". Insideradio.com. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  14. ↑ "Radio Personality - Todd Herman Supports The FAIRtax". fairtax.org. 2020-04-10. Archived from the original on 2021-03-22. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  15. 1 2 "Guest Host Todd Herman | iHeartRadio | Rush Limbaugh". iHeartRadio. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  16. ↑ Michael M. Grynbaum, Davey Alba and Reid J. Epstein, How Pro-Trump Forces Pushed a Lie About Antifa at the Capitol Riot, New York Times (March 1, 2020).
  17. ↑ "Todd Herman to Exit Mornings at KTTH". 24 November 2021.
  18. ↑ "Host Todd Herman to leave KTTH on Dec. 1". NewsNation. November 25, 2021. Archived from the original on December 2, 2021. Retrieved December 2, 2021.
  19. ↑ Ink, Radio (2022-10-20). "Todd Herman Signs With Radio America". Radio Ink. Retrieved 2022-10-22.
  20. ↑ "The C&B Show Spends Tuesday with Todd Herman". The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show. 2022-12-27. Retrieved 2022-12-28.
  21. ↑ Keys, Matthew (2023-01-07). "KVI Seattle Adds Todd Herman". Radio Ink. Retrieved 2023-01-09.
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