Talkers Heavy Hundred 2012 - Noory's Rankings Start to Slip

[texaskdog]

I can't stand financial advice talk host Clark Howard.  Don't know if he gives good advice, but he has the worst voice on national radio; it's high, squeaky, and sort of quivers.  I would think that a grown man would feel ashamed to have such a non-masculine voice.  Why doesn't he take voice lessons?   

HI TARA HOW ARE YOOOOOOUUUU?

[texaskdog]

Agreed, and he never should have got divorced.  Yeah, I know that's not some off-the-cuff kind of thing, but dig:

I mused to a hard-core Stern fan back around 1999 how Stern had better never get divorced, because --I believed-- that he owed some of his popularity to his (image of) being faithfully married.
Guys were/are his core audience; I suspect a large portion of them are working-class guys.   Those guys don't mind him having all the "hot chicks" (as Stern would describe them) coming in his studio and groveling for him IF those guys think Stern ain't really getting any action from those chicks, because he's dutifully loyal (a/k/a tied down) to his wife.   It makes him more "relatable" and thus sympathetic to those working-class guys (whether loyally married or just too broke to be getting any action) who, in their hearts, know Stern wouldn't really piss on them if they were on fire.
BUT-- as soon as they know he really is using his money and position to ~uh~ score in ways that those listener guys can't, then Stern becomes just another "rich media asshole," and there goes his tiny sympathy factor, and there goes a big chunk of his audience.
Does that sound logical?

His show was built around how he should have never gotten married.  So he gets divorced, then gets married again.  And won't talk at all about his new wife.  Who cares?

[Digitech]

As far as the actual list:

Where's Jime Rome? He was in the top 30 last year I believe. I didn't even see him in the 101-250 section at the end of the article.