R.I.P Neil Boortz, hello 9-9-9!

Long-time conservative radio talker Neil Boortz  announced his retirement today, according to a report. The announcement that contains Boortz’s retirement also says that former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain will replace him early next year.

 Radio Insight tweeted a cached page on Sunday night from WBS radio dated 10:07 a.m. on Monday, June 4 that announces Boortz’s retirement after 42 years in talk radio:

“It’s time for me and my wife, Donna, to hit the road and travel in ways that we have not been able to through most of our 42 years together,” said Boortz – also known as “The Talkmaster” and “The High Priest of the Church of the Painful Truth.”

The story notes that former Republican presidential candidate and businessman Herman Cain will be taking over Boortz’s “200 radio stations with six million weekly listeners” on January 18, 2013.

Cain has joined Boortz regularly and already gives a daily commentary segment during the morning and evening drive-time rushes.

Cain said, “Neal has spent his career as a bold, vocal advocate of what is right in this world and condemning that which is not. I promise the torch Boortz is handing off to me will blaze as bright, as bold, and as loud as ever.”

WSB Programming Director Pete Spriggs said that Boortz will continue to broadcast to his loyal listeners via the “Boortz Blast” daily rant “whenever he can deliver it.”

Will Herman Cain continue to tout his 9-9-9 plan now that he will have a captive audience? Boortz  is a strong supporter of the right to abortion, legalization of drugs, pro-gay rights, pro the right to view pornography, very critical of the religious right, et cetera. To be sure, he differs with most libertarians on the threat of Islamic extremism. But he's clearly more of a libertarian than a conservative. How will Cain fare with Boortz' audience?

h/t Radio Insight

Comments

[KS blathers]

People here don't hear Boortz, so they don't understand his style - just second hand mostly from the haters out there. Boortz is kind of like Michael Savage - blunt, entertaining but also does not back down from a good argument.

I like the libertarian side of him, just as I like to read Wayne Allyn Root. He is heard in Portland and Eastern Washington - the rednecks have an affinity for him. Herman Cain is entertaining, but his run for POTUS seems to have been ill-advised.

[DontWorryBeHappy]

Boortz I could listen to, Cain I never will.

[KS]

Cain will probably do OK with a smaller audience, but not possible to replace Boortz. He started almost 20 years before Limbaugh, so I'd prefer to call him the Godfather of Conservative/Libertarian Talk Radio.