CNN ought to have known what it was getting,” Callum Borchers wrote in the Post. In 2016, Travis went on CNN to discuss an ESPN anchor who had called Donald Trump a white supremacist on Twitter and said, “The only 2 things I 100% believe in are the First Amendment and boobs.” The host and other guest were visibly disturbed by the remark, and CNN said he would not be invited back, but the Washington Post later reported that Travis had used the line before. Of the two men, Travis, 42, seems most likely to say things to provoke national outrage, as Limbaugh did in years past. Just four more busy broadcast days (six more total days for those of you in Rio Linda) until the premiere of 'The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.' Get hyped with this #InspiredByRush teaser! /iRWZ1sPwoV- Clay & Buck June 15, 2021 (Neither did Limbaugh, because of the magazine’s criteria of having to be working in radio at the time the list was published in June.) Sexton came in at No. Neither made the top 25 of Talkers magazine’s “ Heavy Hundred” listing of the most important talk radio hosts for 2021. In a tweet from the new Twitter account they recently counted down to the debut show, saying it was four broadcast days away - “six more total days for those of you in Rio Linda” - which was a running gag for Limbaugh, who once called the California town “my pet little favorite community to pick on.”Īlthough Travis, who has called himself a “radical moderate,” and Sexton have worked in national conservative media the past five years, they are hardly household names. Travis and Sexton are featured prominently on the website, which Premiere owns, and the site will stream their show and offer Limbaugh’s archived content indefinitely for subscribers, Nelson said.īilling the show as “inspired by Rush,” the hosts have made clear in recent media appearances that they plan to continue his brand of conservatism, even down to recycling some of Limbaugh’s jokes. Their show will continue under the umbrella of the “EIB” or “Excellence in Broadcasting Network,” a name that Limbaugh coined, according to Rachel Nelson, a spokesperson for Premiere.

The time for that letting go has arrived, and Premiere Networks chose two men for the job: Clay Travis, a Fox Sports Radio personality and podcaster, and Buck Sexton, a Premiere talk radio host who has worked for Glenn Beck’s TheBlaze TV and radio network.īut “letting go” is a bit misleading, as Limbaugh will still dominate the time slot in spirit when Travis and Sexton take over June 21. After talk radio king Rush Limbaugh died in February, his syndication company said it wouldn’t fill the time slot with a new voice until Limbaugh’s fans were ready to let go.

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