Rush Limbaugh - Personality Page

On WOCA NewsTalk 1370, Ocala, Rush Limbaugh hosts his program from 12:00 Noon to 3:00 PM. It is the highest-rated national radio talk show, and the most-listened-to program in WOCA's NewsTalk lineup. WOCA was among the first 50 stations who began airing Limbaugh in August of 1988. The program is now carried by more than 650 stations and is heard by nearly 25 million people weekly.

Also, each morning at 7:35 AM, Rush hosts his "Morning Update," a unique sketch of the Limbaugh perspective on matters affecting all of us.

He was born Rush Hudson Limbaugh III in January, 1951, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, to a family with generations of attorneys. Instead of becoming a legal eagle, Rush chose to explore his passion for broadcasting at age 16 by working on the air each afternoon for a radio station in his hometown. After four years, it was off to KQV, Pittsburgh, which was then the ABC-owned affiliate in that city. Following that stint, he moved to Kansas City, where he eventually tired of the disc jockey life and left broadcasting for business, joining the Kansas City Royals baseball team as Director of Group Sales, and later Director of Sales and Special Events.

By 1983, Rush got the broadcasting bug back and re-entered radio as a political commentator for KMBZ in Kansas City. A year later he was hosting a daytime talk show on KFBK, Sacramento, where he tripled the program's ratings in just four years. In August of 1988, came his big break: A nationally-syndicated network talk show originating in New York City.

Rush has been featured or profiled in virtually every major news magazine in the world. He's been the headline subject on all the network talk shows, including ABC's "Night Line," CNN's "Crossfire," CBS "This Morning" "60 Minutes," and others.

His monthly newsletter, "The Limbaugh Letter" has a subscriber base in excess of 400,000. And Rush's two best-selling books, "The Way Things Ought To Be" and "See, I Told You So" have sold more than 8.9 million copies.

He was the 1992 and 1995 recipient of the Marconi Award for Syndicated Radio Personality of the Year, given by the National Association of Broadcasters. He was inducted into Broadcasting's Hall of Fame in 1993. But in this fabled career, one of his proudest moments was spending a night in the fabled Lincoln bedroom of the White House, during the George Bush administration. (He didn't pay a cent for it!).