Rush Limbaugh's Successors Are Chosen, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton will take over his 12-3 slot

[Demovictory9]

Rush Limbaugh’s Successors Are Chosen
Clay Travis and Buck Sexton will take over his 12-3 slot

By John Johnson, Newser Staff


(NEWSER) – It's going to take two people to try to fill the radio void of Rush Limbaugh on the right. Premiere Networks says Clay Travis, 42, and Buck Sexton, 39, will co-host a show in the noon to 3pm ET time slot, reports the Wall Street Journal. Both are radio veterans, though Travis might be better known as the founder of the sports website Outkick.com.

The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show will begin airing June 21 across the country. Premiere has largely been airing old segments of Limbaugh's show (supplemented by live updates with guest hosts) since he died of lung cancer in February, and the Journal notes that those are bringing in a respectable 75% to 80% of the usual audience.

“We’re not going to replace Rush Limbaugh, we’re going to have an evolution of the show with fresh voices—those that grew up on Rush and admired him,” says Julie Talbott, president of Premiere Networks, which is owned by iHeartMedia.

The Hollywood Reporter notes that Travis and Sexton will have an additional challenge. Radio stations around the country already have begun giving the Limbaugh time slot, or parts of it, to others, particularly Fox News regular Dan Bongino.

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[Tommy Carcetti]

1. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton--Radio hosts or the names of B-List Nashville singers?

You decide.

[OhZone]

2. Mediocre porn actor names? ha

[louis-t]

3. I've noted that they seem to be looking for

someone who speaks in the same pitch as Limbaugh. People in my office that listened to him for years would have it on in the background.They weren't glued to every word he said but got used to listening to the timber and pitch of his voice for 33 years. I was in a guy's office the other day and thought they were re-running some of his shows. It was a guest host. Don't know who, or if the guys they picked talk like that. The local guys years ago all seemed to try to imitate Hannity. All had a raspy, higher pitched voice.

[hatrack]

4. These guys sound like they do an on-air want ads program on some AM station in San Angelo

I mean, who? Who the fuck?

[Crunchy Frog]

5. Buck Sexton. Is that a porn name?

[lpbk2713]

6. But are they qualified?

Which is to ask ... did they have festering boils on their ass?

[Takket]

7. i've heard clay travis before...

he was on an AM station here doing a national sports show. every time i turned him on i was so disgusted by the racist and ignorant sports takes he had they i had to change the station...

finding out that he's taking over for Rush... well... makes perfect sense actually based on the filth and bullshit i've heard him spew.

[ColinC]

8. I'm guessing Satan wasnt available?

[llmart]

9. It's going to take two people to fill Rush's chair...

because he was such a lard ass like his best buddy, the Orange Buffoon.

[Doodley]

10. Are they qualified to be woefully ignorant gaslighters as well?