The National Association of Broadcaster's 2014 Marconi Award for Syndicated Personality of the Year has gone to... Rush Limbaugh!
This is the fifth time that Rush has won the award.
Thank You All for My Fifth Marconi Award!
September 12, 2014
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RUSH: Greetings, my friends, and you are listening to a five-time winner of the National Association of Broadcasters Marconi award for excellence in syndicated and network broadcasting. Rush Limbaugh, on Friday. Let's hit it.
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Anyway, I'm sitting there, I've got the game on and I'm working on show prep at the same time. I get an e-mail and then another e-mail, and three or four more e-mails, and the e-mails keep rolling in. The National Association of Broadcasters convention annual convention is in Indianapolis this year, and last night was the grand conclusion gala awards dinner at which they hand out the Marconi awards.
Marconi awards are given in several categories by market size, the station of the year, legendary station, media market, small market, major market, and then small market personality, media market person and so forth and so on. There's a category for syndicated or network host. I have been nominated for that award 12 times. Last night I won it for the fifth time, joining the late Paul Harvey as the only person to win it five times, which I didn't know until I was told later last night. I'd lost track 'cause we've got them in different places.
Two of them are here and two of them are at home. I'd lost count, so somebody told me, "It's your fifth and only Paul Harvey has won that many." So, you know, it's an acknowledgement from the industry, which makes it even more meaningful and profound. The people that vote on this are people that operate radio stations, operate and program radio stations in all formats. Nominations are sometime in the summer, then the vote's conducted sometime after that. And this year's nominees, I mean, they were tremendous competition in the category, and I, frankly, thought I've got no chance. I'm old news.
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One of these days, Rush, you will no longer pollute the airwaves. One of these days...