Todd Herman
Todd Herman | |
|---|---|
| Born | Todd Eugene Herman 1966 or 1967 (age 57–58)[1] |
| Career | |
| Show | "The Todd Herman Show" "The Rush Limbaugh Show" (rotating host) |
| Station | KTTH |
| Show | “The Candy, Mike and Todd Show” |
| Station | KIRO-FM |
| Country | United States |
| Website | thetoddhermanshow |
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.
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 falsely[CITE?] 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 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]
Personal
Herman considers himself a "college dropout"[15][failed verification] and a "lifetime Washingtonian".[4]
References
- ^ a b c d Staff (2008-11-17). "SpinSpotter lets readers keep a lookout for spin". The Seattle Times. Retrieved 2020-07-24.
- ^ Steve Ernst, TheDial lands first deals to put its audio on Web, Seattle Business Journal (October 31, 1999).
- ^ a b Leena Rao, Former MSN Exec Named RNC New Media Director, TechCrunch (March 23, 2009).
- ^ a b c "Todd Herman to Host KTTH-AM/Seattle Afternoons". news.radio-online.com. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
- ^ a b c d Boyce Upholt, GOP New Media Manager: No Party Affiliation, Campaigns & Elections (March 22, 2009).
- ^ a b Cook, John (2012-04-04). "Direct Impact buys Crowdverb to bolster 'grassroots' campaigns". GeekWire. Retrieved 2020-07-24.
- ^ Sam Stein, RNC Distances Itself From New Media Director Todd Herman's Obama-Muslim Tweet, Huffington Post (2010).
- ^ a b c "Todd Herman To Host Afternoons On KTTH/Seattle". All Access. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
- ^ "Not even a goodbye: KIRO abruptly cancels 'The Ron & Don Show'". The Seattle Times. 2019-01-12. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
- ^ Lance Venta (January 27, 2020). "KIRO-FM Announces Revised Weekday Lineup". RadioInsight.
- ^ "Todd Herman – TALKERS magazine – "The bible of talk media."". TALKERS magazine - “The bible of talk media.”. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
- ^ Cherry, Mike. "Todd Herman to KTTH morning drive". Retrieved 2020-07-23.
- ^ "Todd Herman". Insideradio.com. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
- ^ "Radio Personality - Todd Herman Supports The FAIRtax". fairtax.org. 2020-04-10. Archived from the original on 2021-03-22. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
- ^ a b "Guest Host Todd Herman | iHeartRadio | Rush Limbaugh". iHeartRadio. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
- ^ 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).
- ^ "Todd Herman to Exit Mornings at KTTH".
- ^ "Host Todd Herman to leave KTTH on Dec. 1". NewsNation. November 25, 2021.