MarkTalk.com: It's Not Right vs. Left, It's Right vs. Wrong

Build Your Own Drive Time

Use MarkTalk.com the same way you use your TiVo or DVR to assemble your own, custom menu of only the very best in talk radio from all over America! Links to all your favorite shows are here, along with many excellent hosts with whom you may be unfamiliar but who have something to say. This page will not remain static as I find and add more important shows.

Where possible we have linked directly to each host’s pod access, where that is not available then we have linked to the host’s station or own web page where you may access their shows. Some hosts only stream live others make their full shows available for downloading. We urge you to explore our links for all kinds of hidden treasures you did not know were out there!

This is not a laundry list or a simple collection of links, it is your portal to an entire world of like minded people, with whom we share our American and family values. You will even find some Lefties, they are in the “Domestic Enemies” section.

No more are you at the mercy of some corporate, politically correct pabulum being aired to fill time between commercials. Build Your Own Drive Time with the Mark Williams Show as your anchor!

Common Sense Heavy Hitters - National
Rush Limbaugh – 13.5 million listeners
Sean Hannity – 12.5 million listeners
Michael Savage – 8 million listeners
Dr. Laura Schlessinger – 8 million listeners
Glen Beck – 5 million listeners
Laura Ingraham – 5 million listeners
Neil Boortz – 4 million listeners
Mark Levin – 4 million listeners
Mike Gallagher – 3.75 million listeners
Michael Medved – 3.75 million listeners
Bill O’Reilly – 3.25 million listeners
Bill Bennett – 3 million listeners
Jerry Doyle – 3 million listeners
Rusty Humphries – 2.25 million listeners
Lars Larson – 2.25 million listeners
Tammy Bruce – conservative, lesbian founder of NOW Los Angeles
Larry Elder - conservative black talker
Hugh Hewitt – looks to religion for right and wrong
Roy Masters – the original Dr. Laura, a moral anchor
Dennis Prager – God is his guide
Al Rantel – well rounded with a sense of humor
Phil Valentine – a thinking, family man’s host

Common Sense Heavy Hitters - Local
Baltimore
Les Kinsolving – curmudgeon, thorn in White House press secretaries for years
Boston
Michael Graham – young, high energy & great humor
Jay Severin – young, high energy & great humor
Charlotte
Jeff Katz - another Mark Williams in many respects
Chicago
Jerry Agar – taking Chicago by storm
Cincinnati
Bill “Willie” Cunningham – one of Mark’s personal favorites
Mike McConnell– another of Mark’s favorites, also hosts a national weekend show
Dallas
Mark Davis – worked with Mark in DC ages ago, now a Dallas institution
Daytona Beach
Marc Bernier – 30 year friend of Mark’s
Denver
Mike Rosen – a Giuliani kind of post-partisan guy, irreverent
Peter Boyles – politics all over the map but 100% pro-USA
Gainesville, GA
Martha Zoller – rising star, went to Iraq with Mark
Los Angeles
John & Ken – take it to the streets and change the world
John Ziegler – worked for Mark in Philly, you have to think when you listen
Milwaukee
Mark Belling – frequent Rush fill-in
Omaha
Tom Becka – controversial libertarian
Pittsburg
Fred Honsberger – urban, blue collar conservative
Quinn & Rose – their show is called “The War Room”, need I say more?
Philadelphia
Mike Smerconish - Smerconish is pure Philly… could explode at any second
Dom Giordino – Dom worked for Mark in Philly, a solid, thinking family man
Phoenix
Darrell Ankarlo – joined Mark in Crawford TX to protest Cindy Sheehan
J.D. Hayworth – former congressman & hard-core on illegal immigration (streaming link on left, scroll down)
Bruce Jacobs – likes to stir it up
Barry Young – one of the best hosts ever, with a quick mind and quicker wit
Providence
The Dan Yorke and John DePetro show - Dan & John are conservatives
Vincent “Buddy” Cianci - Buddy is a wise guy… not as in “smart aleck” but, as in “Goodfellas”, he is neither conservative nor liberal, I just get a kick out of the guy. (I included him because I prefer not to upset guys what could make me disappear faster than Houdini, if you catch my drift)
San Diego
Roger Hedgecock – the Mayor of Southern California, Rush’s go-to guy
San Francisco
Gene Burns – old friend from Boston, last of a generation of giants in talk (7 – 10 PM Pacific)
Melanie Morgan – a Mark & Holly Williams BFF and as quick to act as to speak
Tampa
Mark Larsen – libertarian, abandoned big corporate radio
Todd Schnitt – also known as MJ on his edgy FM morning music show, a new generation of conservative on his afternoon AM & regionally syndicated show
Seattle
Kirby Wilber – solid anchor in a foo-foo town
Temple, TX
Lynn Woolley – a grass-roots agitator for real Americans
Washington, DC
Chris Core– almost 30 years on WMAL as a lone voice of common sense inside the belly of the beast

Domestic Enemies
Ed Schultz – 3.25 million listeners
Alan Colmes – 1.5 million listeners
Stephanie Miller – 1.5 million listeners
Air America – should be “Air Hate America”
Diane Rehm (NPR & DC local) – hates Mark, who calls her NPR job “a welfare check”
Bernie Ward - nightly display of the mental and emotional anguish of the left
Ray Taliaferro - nightly display of the mental and emotional anguish of the left
Rev. Al Sharpton – yep, that one

Mark's Favorite Talk Radio Stations

These are some of the surviving local stations around the nation that fulfill their obligation to serve their communities. Each features popular local hosts, of a variety of political bent and very good to excellent news coverage. We have listed only those stations that offer podcasts and / or live streaming as well as minimum syndicated or network content and maximum useful shows and information.

Bakersfield, CA
1410 KERN
Baltimore
WBAL AM 1090
Bloomington, IL
AM 1230 WJBC
Champaign, IL
NewsTalk 1400 WDWS AM
Charleston, WV
WCHS 580
Denver
News Radio 850 KOA (also has a live over-night show)
Grand Forks, ND
KNOX Talk Radio 1310
Greensboro / Highpoint / Winston-Salem, NC
FM Talk 101.1 WZTK
Indianapolis
WIBC Newsradio 1070
Jamestown, NY
WJTN News Talk 1240
Kalamazoo
AM 590 WKZO
Kansas City, MO
News Radio 980 KMBZ
Los Angeles
KFI AM 640
Louisville, KY
84 WHAS
Madison, WI
Madison 1670 WTDY
Minneapolis – St. Paul
AM 1500 KSTP
WCCO News / Talk 830
Morgantown, WV
Full Service 1440 WAJR
Norwich, CT
WICH 1310 AM
Pittsburg, PA
KDKA NewsRadio 1020
Salt Lake City
KSL Newsradio
San Francisco
KGO NewsTalk 810
St. Louis
1120 KMOX