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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 is a regularly guest 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.

Career

Business

Herman has a background in media.[1] He was president and chief evangelizing officer of theDial (formerly TheDial.com), an start-up Internet radio company. The company was first based in Salt Lake City, and then moved 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][6] taking up the job the following month.[5] In that role, he oversaw the national Republican Party's digital strategy.[7] In 2010, Herman posted a personal tweet falsely suggesting that President Barack Obama was a Muslim; the RNC distanced itself from Herman's tweet.[8]

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.[7]

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.[9][4] He had worked as fill-in host on both KIRO Radio, part of the CBS television affiliate in Seattle and sister-station to KTTH.[9] At KTTH Herman worked alongside other conservative talk show hosts David Boze and Michael Medved.[9]

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.[10] The show ran in the 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. time slot for one year, ending in January 2020.[11][12] Herman returned to KTTH to host during morning drive time in March 2020, replacing "morning personality" Saul Spady.[13][14]

Herman has expressed support for the "FairTax," a proposal to abolish income and payroll taxes and replace them with a flat sales tax.[15]

Herman filled in regularly as a guest host on the nationally-syndicated Rush Limbaugh Show.[9][16] 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.[17]

Personal

Herman considers himself a "college dropout"[16] and a "lifetime Washingtonian".[4]

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. ^ Steve Ernst, TheDial lands first deals to put its audio on Web, Seattle Business Journal (October 31, 1999).
  3. ^ Leena Rao, Former MSN Exec Named RNC New Media Director, TechCrunch (March 23, 2009).
  4. ^ a b c "Todd Herman to Host KTTH-AM/Seattle Afternoons". news.radio-online.com. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  5. ^ 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).
  6. ^ Leena Rao, [Former MSN Exec Named RNC New Media Director], TechMedia (March 23, 2009).
  7. ^ a b Cook, John (2012-04-04). "Direct Impact buys Crowdverb to bolster 'grassroots' campaigns". GeekWire. Retrieved 2020-07-24.
  8. ^ Sam Stein, RNC Distances Itself From New Media Director Todd Herman's Obama-Muslim Tweet, Huffington Post (2010).
  9. ^ a b c d "Todd Herman To Host Afternoons On KTTH/Seattle". All Access. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  10. ^ "Not even a goodbye: KIRO abruptly cancels 'The Ron & Don Show'". The Seattle Times. 2020-07-23.
  11. ^ Lance Venta (January 27, 2020). "KIRO-FM Announces Revised Weekday Lineup". RadioInsight.
  12. ^ "Todd Herman – TALKERS magazine – "The bible of talk media."". TALKERS magazine - “The bible of talk media.”. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  13. ^ Cherry, Mike. "Todd Herman to KTTH morning drive". Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  14. ^ "Todd Herman". Insideradio.com. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  15. ^ "Radio Personality - Todd Herman Supports The FAIRtax". fairtax.org. 2020-04-10. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  16. ^ a b "Guest Host Todd Herman | iHeartRadio | Rush Limbaugh". iHeartRadio. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  17. ^ 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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