Rick Emerson
| Rick Emerson | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 7, 1973 Kennewick, Washington, U.S. |
| Show |
Outlook Portland (Former)Legion of News (Former)The Rick Emerson Show |
| Station(s) |
NW 32 TV (Outlook Portland) RickEmerson.com |
| Time slot | Sundays 6:00am-6:30am (Outlook Portland) (Former) Monday - Friday 12pm-1pm (LoN) Monday-Friday 1pm-3pm or later (Rick Emerson Show) |
| Style | Talk |
| Country | United States |
| Website | RickEmerson.com |
Rick Emerson (born March 7, 1973), formerly known as Rick Taylor, is a radio personality most known for The Rick Emerson Show, which was broadcast from Portland, Oregon, in one form or another, from 1997 to 2012. Emerson also co-hosted Drive-By Radio as "Rick Taylor" in Salt Lake City. He hosted the public affairs television show Outlook Portland. And he co-authored the book Zombie Economics. On January 2, 2012, Emerson announced his retirement from the broadcasting industry.
Rick Emerson was born March 7, 1973 in Kennewick, Washington. He was interested in radio from a very young age. He used a RadioShack tape recorder to interview his friends. "I was like a Larry King in short pants." At age 14 he began volunteering at a local radio station. After graduating fourth-to-last in his high school class, he moved to Spokane, Washington, where he landed his first radio talk show. He broadcast weeknights from midnight to 2 a.m from a bomb shelter in the basement of the station's building. "It was just hours of me talking to NO ONE," he said. "The only calls I got were wrong numbers." During this time, he managed to earn a small but loyal following. Listeners knew him by the stage name "Rick Taylor", a last name that he picked out of a phone-book. During this time, Emerson was arrested when pulled over for a broken tail-light; a bench warrant had been issued after he forgot to pay the last $10 on a traffic ticket.
In January 1995, Emerson was hired by KCNR in Salt Lake City, where he co-hosted the afternoon drive show Drive-By Radio with Clyde Lewis. In Salt Lake City, as in Spokane, Emerson worked under the stage name "Rick Taylor". Salt Lake City Weekly described Rick Taylor as "everything a talk radio fan under 50 could ask for: Confrontational, funny, smart, vaguely liberal, pop-culture obsessed and driven to Get Your Attention! like no one before or since on SLC's airwaves." He became program director of KCNR and helped create one of the most popular radio stations in Utah. Journalist Bill Frost later wrote: "From January 1995 to November 1996, KCNR AM 1320 (later 860) brought the Salt Lake Valley the most in-your-face, vibrant, talk-radio format it had ever heard. Rick Taylor, Martin Davies, Todd Herman and Clyde Lewis took back the airwaves from the old guard of creaky conspiratorialists and politicalpontificators and, at least in small part, introduced it to a younger, hipper audience. It was rock & roll radio without the music, and what they accomplished in such a short period of time is still talked about to this day."
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