Mike Gallagher

About Mike Gallagher

Mike Gallagher (b. Michael P. Smelstor April 7, 1960, Dayton, Ohio)[citation needed] is a popular conservative American radio talk show host. He is, according to Talkers Magazine estimates, the 8th most listened-to radio talk show host in the United States.

Mike spent a large portion of the 1980s as morning sportscaster and weatherman at WKEF Television in Dayton, Ohio, and served for a brief time as host of As Schools Match Wits, a local high school trivia quiz show. (His trademark ending for his sportscasts was "As far as sports go, that's as far as I go.") His first radio job was also in Dayton, at WAVI-AM. WABC-AM, at the time being the nation's most listened-to talk radio station, hired Mike for a two year stint in 1996. Mike was then hired by Greenville's WFBC-AM (Now WORD-AM) in the early 90's as a local host, and met his wife Denise while there.

The Mike Gallagher Show was launched nationally in 1998 with 12 radio stations and is now heard on nearly 200. He is a Fox News Channel Contributor making frequent appearances on many of the Fox News Channel programs especially Hannity and Colmes filling in for Sean Hannity. In the summer of 2006, he authored Surrounded by Idiots: Fighting Liberal Lunacy in America (William Morrow), which became a New York Times bestseller (#27 on the extended bestseller list).