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Todd Herman
Born
Todd Eugene Herman

1966 or 1967 (age 57–58)[1]
Career
Show"The Todd Herman Show"
StationKTTH
Show“The Candy, Mike and Todd Show”
StationKIRO-FM
CountryUnited States
WebsiteTodd Herman Show on AM 770 KTTH

Todd Herman is a radio show host, digital political strategist, and public speaker from Washington State. He hosts "The Todd Herman Show" on KTTH in Seattle and regularly serves as guest host on The Rush Limbaugh Show. He was co-founder and CEO of TheDial, the first platform for internet radio and served as chief digital strategist for the Republican National Committee 2009-2011. Herman co-founded Crowdverb.

Career

Business

Herman has a background in media.[1] He worked for Microsoft's MSN,[1] and was involved in the creation of its MSN Video business unit.[2] He held the position of Streaming Media Evangelist at MSNBC.com and then General Manager, Media Strategy and Monetization for MSN.[3] He left Microsoft in September 2007.[3]

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),[3][4] taking up the job the following month.[3] In that role, he oversaw the national Republican Party's digital strategy.[5] In 2010, Herman posted a personal tweet falsely suggesting that President Barack Obama was a Muslim; the RNC distanced itself from Herman's tweet.[6]

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.[5]

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.[7][2] He had worked as fill-in host on both KIRO Radio, part of the CBS television affiliate in Seattle and sister-station to KTTH.[7] At KTTH Herman worked alongside other conservative talk show hosts David Boze and Michael Medved.[7]

In January 2019 Herman became co-host (along with Candy Harper and Mike Lewis) of The Candy, Mike and Todd Show; the program replaced the Ron and Don Show, which had aired for 13 years.[8] The show ran in the 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. time slot for one year, ending in January 2020.[9][10] Herman returned to KTTH to host during morning drive time in March 2020, replacing "morning personality" Saul Spady.[11][12]

Herman has expressed support for the "FairTax," a proposal to abolish income and payroll taxes and replace them with a flat sales tax.[13]

Herman filled in regularly as a guest host on the nationally-syndicated Rush Limbaugh Show.[7][14] In January 2021, while a guest host on Limbaugh's show, Herman falsely suggested that the storming of the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob 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 false claim that antifa activists had concocted a plan to impersonate Trump supporters.[15]

Personal

Herman considers himself a "college dropout"[14] and a "lifetime Washingtonian".[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Staff (2008-11-17). "SpinSpotter lets readers keep a lookout for spin". The Seattle Times. Retrieved 2020-07-24.
  2. ^ a b c "Todd Herman to Host KTTH-AM/Seattle Afternoons". news.radio-online.com. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  3. ^ a b c d Boyce Upholt, https://www.campaignsandelections.com/campaign-insider/gop-new-media-manager-no-party-affiliation [GOP New Media Manager: No Party Affiliation], Campaigns & Elections (March 22, 2009).
  4. ^ Leena Rao, [Former MSN Exec Named RNC New Media Director], TechMedia (March 23, 2009).
  5. ^ a b Cook, John (2012-04-04). "Direct Impact buys Crowdverb to bolster 'grassroots' campaigns". GeekWire. Retrieved 2020-07-24.
  6. ^ Sam Stein, RNC Distances Itself From New Media Director Todd Herman's Obama-Muslim Tweet, Huffington Post (2010).
  7. ^ a b c d "Todd Herman To Host Afternoons On KTTH/Seattle". All Access. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  8. ^ "Not even a goodbye: KIRO abruptly cancels 'The Ron & Don Show'". The Seattle Times. 2020-07-23.
  9. ^ Lance Venta (January 27, 2020). "KIRO-FM Announces Revised Weekday Lineup". RadioInsight.
  10. ^ "Todd Herman – TALKERS magazine – "The bible of talk media."". TALKERS magazine - “The bible of talk media.”. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  11. ^ Cherry, Mike. "Todd Herman to KTTH morning drive". Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  12. ^ "Todd Herman". Insideradio.com. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  13. ^ "Radio Personality - Todd Herman Supports The FAIRtax". fairtax.org. 2020-04-10. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  14. ^ a b "Guest Host Todd Herman | iHeartRadio | Rush Limbaugh". iHeartRadio. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  15. ^ 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).
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