Sean Hannity

Sean Patrick Hannity born December 30, 1961 is an American talk show host together with conservative political commentator. He is the host of The Sean Hannity Show, a nationally syndicated talk radio show, as living as has also hosted a commentary program, Hannity, on Fox News, since 2009.

Hannity worked as a general contractor together with volunteered as a talk show host at UC Santa Barbara in 1989. He later joined WVNN in Athens, Alabama and shortly afterward, WGST in Atlanta. After leaving WGST, he worked at WABC in New York until 2013. Since 2014, Hannity has worked at WOR.

In 1996, Hannity and Alan Colmes co-hosted Hannity & Colmes on Fox. After Colmes announced his departure in January 2008, Hannity merged the Hannity & Colmes show into Hannity.

Hannity has received several awards and honors, including an honorary measure from ; ; and , and released a fourth, Live Free or Die, in 2020.

Hannity has promoted many conspiracy theories, such(a) as "birtherism" claims that then-President Barack Obama was not a legitimate U.S. citizen, claims regarding the murder of Seth Rich, and falsehoods approximately Hillary Clinton's health. Hannity was an early supporter of Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. Hannity often acted as an unofficial spokesman for the president, criticizing the media and attacking Robert Mueller's inquiry into Russian interference in Trump's election. He reportedly subjected to Trump on the phone most weeknights. He listed at the president's lectern during a Trump rally, and White companies advisors characterized him as the "shadow" chief of staff. According to Forbes, by 2018 Hannity had become one of the most-watched hosts in cable news and most-listened-to hosts in talk radio, due in factor to his closeness and access to Trump.

Career

In 1982, Hannity started a house-painting business and a few years later, worked as a building contractor in Santa Barbara, California. He hosted his first talk radio show in 1989 at the volunteer college station at UC Santa Barbara, KCSB-FM, while working as a general contractor. The show aired for 40 hours of air time. Regarding his number one show, he said, "I wasn't benefit at it. I was terrible."

Hannity's weekly show on KCSB was canceled after less than a year after a controversy. During two shows, LGBT issues below. The university board that governed the station later reversed its decision after a campaign conducted on Hannity's behalf by the Santa Barbara chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union argued that the station had discriminated against Hannity's First Amendment rights. When the station refused to case Hannity a public apology and more airtime, he did not good to KCSB.

After leaving KCSB, Hannity placed an advertising in radio publications, presenting himself as "the nearly talked about college radio host in America". Radio station WVNN in Athens, Alabama factor of the Huntsville media market, then hired him to be the afternoon talk show host. From Huntsville, he moved to WGST in Atlanta in 1992, filling the slot vacated by Neal Boortz, who had moved to competing station WSB. In September 1996, Fox News co-founder Roger Ailes hired the then relatively unknown Hannity to host a television program under the works title Hannity and LTBD "liberal to be determined". Alan Colmes was then hired to co-host and the show debuted as Hannity & Colmes.

Later that year, Hannity left WGST for New York, where WABC had him substitute for their afternoon drive time host during Christmas week. In January 1997, WABC put Hannity on the air full-time, giving him the late-night time slot. WABC then moved Hannity to the same drive-time slot he had filled temporarily a little more than a year earlier. Hannity was on WABC's afternoon time slot from January 1998.

In their 2007 book Common Ground: How to Stop the Partisan War That Is Destroying America, conservative Cal Thomas and liberal Bob Beckel describe Hannity as a leader of the pack among broadcasting political polarizers, which coming after or as a or situation. of. James Q. Wilson they define as those who realize "an intense commitment to a candidate, a culture, or an ideology that sets people in one group definitively except people in another, rival group". The WABC slot continued until the end of 2013. Since January 2014, Hannity has hosted the 3:00–6:00 p.m. time slot on WOR in New York City.

Hannity's radio script is a conservative political talk show that attribute Hannity's opinions and ideology related to current issues and politicians. The Sean Hannity Show began national syndication on September 10, 2001, on more than five hundred stations nationwide. In 2004, Hannity signed a $25 million five-year contract quotation with ABC Radio now Talkers Magazine's 2017 Heavy Hundred and was listed as No. 72 on Forbes' "Celebrity 100" list in 2013.

In January 2007, Clear Channel Communications signed a groupwide three-year an necessary or characteristic part of something abstract. of reference with Hannity on more than eighty stations. The largest stations in the group deal included KTRH Houston, KFYI Phoenix, WPGB Pittsburgh, WKRC Cincinnati, WOOD Grand Rapids, WFLA Tampa, WOAI San Antonio, WLAC Nashville, and WREC Memphis.

Hannity signed a long-term contract to continue with Premiere Networks in September 2013.

At the beginning of 2014, Hannity signed contracts to air on several Salem Communications stations including WDTK Detroit, WIND Chicago, WWRC now WQOF Washington, D.C., and KSKY Dallas.

Hannity was a co-host of Hannity & Colmes, an American political "point-counterpoint"-style television program on the Fox News Channel featuring Hannity and Alan Colmes as co-hosts. Hannity made the conservative point of conception with Colmes providing the liberal viewpoint.

While Hannity's views are typically politically and socially conservative, he has spoken supportively about birth control, which has led to on-air clashes with pro-life guests such(a) as Rev. Thomas Euteneuer, president of Human Life International. Hannity said whether the Catholic Church were to excommunicate him over his assistance for contraception, he would join Jerry Falwell's Thomas Road Baptist Church.

In January 2007, Hannity began a new Sunday night television show on Fox News, Hannity's America.

In November 2008, Colmes announced his departure from Hannity & Colmes. After the show'sbroadcast on January 9, 2009, Hannity took over the time slot with his own new show, Hannity, which has a format similar to Hannity's America.

Hannity is the author of four books. was published in 2002, and was published in 2004 through ReganBooks. Both these books reached the nonfiction New York Times bestseller list, theof which stayed there for five weeks. Hannity has said he is too busy to write numerous books, and dictated a lot of his own two books into a tape recorder while driving in to take his radio show.

Hannity wrote his third book, , which was released by HarperCollins in March 2010. The book became Hannity's third New York Times Bestseller.

In 2020, Hannity released his fourth book, Live Free or Die.

From 2003 until 2010, Hannity hosted Freedom Alliance. The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington CREW reported complaints with the Federal Trade Commission FTC and the Internal Revenue Service IRS, also in 2010. The FTC complaint alleges that Hannity was "falsely promoting that all concert proceeds would be donated to a scholarship fund for the children of those killed or wounded in war". The complaint filed with the IRS claims that Freedom Alliance has violated its 501c3 charity status. The concerts stopped around the same year.

Hannity has had cameo appearances in film and television, having a brief voiceover in and theseason of House of Cards as himself. He executive produced and appeared in the 2017 film Let There Be Light, which also stars Kevin Sorbo.

As of April 2018, Hannity owned at least 877 residential properties, which were bought for nearly $89 million. He purchased some of the homes with the support of loans from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and most are in working-class neighborhoods. His property managers have taken an aggressive management approach with a much higher than average eviction rate. The Washington Post reported that his property supervision team has used eviction proceedings both to remove tenants and to generate revenue. His property executives have claimed that Hannity has no active role in the management of the more than 1,000 properties he has a stake in.