Steve Gill
Encyclopedia
Steve Gill is an American
conservative talk radio
host based in Nashville, Tennessee
. He is currently serving as a political commentator on Nashville television station WKRN, and his radio show, The Steve Gill Show, is broadcast on stations across the state.
, where he received an undergraduate degree in history
and a law
degree. He played varsity basketball
while in college and was a member of the 1977 Tennessee team that won the Southeastern Conference
championship. As a student, he was also president of the student body, president of Omicron Delta Kappa
, and student member of the university board of trustees.
Gill was an adjunct faculty member at Belmont University
from 1991 to 2004, teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in international business, business law, and negotiations.
Gill lives in Brentwood, Tennessee
and has two sons, Patrick and Ryan.
Fellowship by President George Bush
. During his fellowship year he served as Director of Intergovernmental Affairs for the U.S. Trade Representative in the Executive Office of the President under both the Bush and Clinton
Administrations.
In 1994 and 1996 Gill was the Republican
nominee against longtime Sixth District U.S. Representative
Bart Gordon
, barely losing in 1994 and again in 1996, being outspent each election by over $1 million. One of the statements used against him during the campaigns was in response to a push to increase the minimum wage. Video was shown in which he noted the logistical and economic problems with a national minimum wage setting payments in both New York City and rural Tennessee, "Five dollars an hour goes a lot farther down here."
Gill was the morning host on 99.7 FM WWTN
, leaving the air on June 30, 2006. On July 31, 2006, Nashville radio station WLAC
1510 AM announced Gill's return to the station, with a program to air Saturday mornings on WLAC and a number of other stations in the state of Tennessee starting August 12, 2006. Since 2009, Radio America has handled syndication. WLAC also announced plans to begin airing a weekday morning show hosted by Gill on October 2, 2006. (See NewsRadio 1510 WLAC, "Radio Host, Steve Gill, to Return to WLAC" and "Steve Gill Returns to NewsRadio 1510 WLAC", Gill Report, July 31, 2006.) Gill began his talk radio career on WLAC.
Starting January 1, 2010, Steve Gill's flagship station, WLAC, underwent a major lineup change to take advantage of the increasingly popular nationally syndicated shows of Glenn Beck
and Mark Levin
. Mr. Beck, whose show previously occupied the 5PM-8PM (tape delayed) timeslot was moved to Gill's 8AM-11AM slot. Gill moved into the 5AM-8AM morning drive slot. Gill's show now airs live in Nashville Monday - Friday from 5-8 am CST and Saturdays from 8-11 am. The Steve Gill Show also airs live Monday-Saturday on 87.7 fm/1210 am WMPS "The Point" in Memphis. Mark Levin now occupies Beck's old 5PM-8PM slot and is live. http://www.wlac.com/pages/schedule.html/?dontcacheme=1
He has interviewed many Washington figures on his shows, including Vice President
Dick Cheney
and Secretary of Defense
Donald Rumsfeld
.
His book about the potential presidential campaign of Fred Thompson, The Fred Factor: How Fred Thompson May Change the Face of the '08 Election, (ISBN 0976873710) was released on May 25, 2007.
With reference to Julian Assange
he said "[...] folks like Julian Assange should be targeted as terrorists. They should either be captured and kept at Guantanamo Bay, or killed."
In 2000 and 2001 Gill was instrumental in leading an effective protest against a state income tax
. At his urging, anti-tax protesters deluged legislators with phone calls and e-mails, and circled the state capitol building in cars and trucks, continually honking their horns. Americans for Tax Reform
recognized Gill with a "Hero of the Taxpayers" award for these actions. However, there also was criticism for the tactics used, which resulted in broken windows and other damage at the capitol, required state police to barricade and patrol the capitol to protect legislators, and led to several legislators being taken from the capitol building by ambulance to be hospitalized for cardiac problems. (See CFIF.org, Citizens Defeat Tennessee Income Tax Measure; Patrick Poole, Tennesseans stage tax revolt: Massive revolt at state Capitol stops new income-tax plan, World Net Daily, June 14, 2000; Patrick Poole, Tennessee v. talk radio: Legislature tries broadcast tax after hosts defeat income tax, World Net Daily, June 16, 2000; CNN, Antitax Protest Succeeds in Tennessee, July 13, 2001; and Patrick Poole, Tennessee Tax Protest: A Report from the Front Lines, August 1, 2001.)
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
conservative talk radio
Talk radio
Talk radio is a radio format containing discussion about topical issues. Most shows are regularly hosted by a single individual, and often feature interviews with a number of different guests. Talk radio typically includes an element of listener participation, usually by broadcasting live...
host based in Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...
. He is currently serving as a political commentator on Nashville television station WKRN, and his radio show, The Steve Gill Show, is broadcast on stations across the state.
Education and personal life
Gill attended the University of TennesseeUniversity of Tennessee
The University of Tennessee is a public land-grant university headquartered at Knoxville, Tennessee, United States...
, where he received an undergraduate degree in history
History
History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
and a law
Law
Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...
degree. He played varsity basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
while in college and was a member of the 1977 Tennessee team that won the Southeastern Conference
Southeastern Conference
The Southeastern Conference is an American college athletic conference that operates in the southeastern part of the United States. It is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama...
championship. As a student, he was also president of the student body, president of Omicron Delta Kappa
Omicron Delta Kappa
Omicron Delta Kappa, or ΟΔΚ, also known as The Circle, or more commonly ODK, is a national leadership honor society. It was founded December 3, 1914, at Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, by 15 student and faculty leaders. Chapters, known as Circles, are located on over 300...
, and student member of the university board of trustees.
Gill was an adjunct faculty member at Belmont University
Belmont University
Belmont University is a private, coeducational, liberal arts university located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. It is the largest Christian university in Tennessee and the second largest private university in the state, behind nearby Vanderbilt University.-Belmont Mansion:Belmont Mansion...
from 1991 to 2004, teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in international business, business law, and negotiations.
Gill lives in Brentwood, Tennessee
Brentwood, Tennessee
-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 23,445 people, 7,693 households, and 6,808 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 7,889 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 94.63% European American, 1.89% African American,...
and has two sons, Patrick and Ryan.
Political career
In 1992 Gill was appointed to a White HouseWhite House
The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the president of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical...
Fellowship by President George Bush
George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to...
. During his fellowship year he served as Director of Intergovernmental Affairs for the U.S. Trade Representative in the Executive Office of the President under both the Bush and Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...
Administrations.
In 1994 and 1996 Gill was the Republican
Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...
nominee against longtime Sixth District U.S. Representative
United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...
Bart Gordon
Bart Gordon
Barton Jennings "Bart" Gordon, is a lawyer and former U.S. Representative for , serving from 1985 until 2011. The district includes several rural areas and fast-growing suburbs east of Nashville. He was Chairman of the House Committee on Science and Technology from 2007 until 2011. He is a member...
, barely losing in 1994 and again in 1996, being outspent each election by over $1 million. One of the statements used against him during the campaigns was in response to a push to increase the minimum wage. Video was shown in which he noted the logistical and economic problems with a national minimum wage setting payments in both New York City and rural Tennessee, "Five dollars an hour goes a lot farther down here."
Gill was the morning host on 99.7 FM WWTN
WWTN
WWTN is a 100 kW, Class C0 FM radio station serving the Nashville, Tennessee media market. Its dial position is 99.7 MHz. Home to many local and national talk radio shows, the station is marketed as SuperTalk 99.7 WTN...
, leaving the air on June 30, 2006. On July 31, 2006, Nashville radio station WLAC
WLAC
WLAC is a clear channel radio station based in Nashville, Tennessee, operating at 1510 kHz on the AM dial.-Early history:Its first broadcast took place on November 24, 1926. The call letters were chosen to contain an acronym for the first owner of the station, the Life and Casualty Insurance...
1510 AM announced Gill's return to the station, with a program to air Saturday mornings on WLAC and a number of other stations in the state of Tennessee starting August 12, 2006. Since 2009, Radio America has handled syndication. WLAC also announced plans to begin airing a weekday morning show hosted by Gill on October 2, 2006. (See NewsRadio 1510 WLAC, "Radio Host, Steve Gill, to Return to WLAC" and "Steve Gill Returns to NewsRadio 1510 WLAC", Gill Report, July 31, 2006.) Gill began his talk radio career on WLAC.
Starting January 1, 2010, Steve Gill's flagship station, WLAC, underwent a major lineup change to take advantage of the increasingly popular nationally syndicated shows of Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
Glenn Edward Lee Beck is an American conservative radio host, vlogger, author, entrepreneur, political commentator and former television host. He hosts the Glenn Beck Program, a nationally syndicated talk-radio show that airs throughout the United States on Premiere Radio Networks...
and Mark Levin
Mark Levin
Mark Reed Levin is a lawyer, author and the host of American syndicated radio show The Mark Levin Show. Levin served in the cabinet of President Ronald Reagan and was a chief of staff for Attorney General Edwin Meese...
. Mr. Beck, whose show previously occupied the 5PM-8PM (tape delayed) timeslot was moved to Gill's 8AM-11AM slot. Gill moved into the 5AM-8AM morning drive slot. Gill's show now airs live in Nashville Monday - Friday from 5-8 am CST and Saturdays from 8-11 am. The Steve Gill Show also airs live Monday-Saturday on 87.7 fm/1210 am WMPS "The Point" in Memphis. Mark Levin now occupies Beck's old 5PM-8PM slot and is live. http://www.wlac.com/pages/schedule.html/?dontcacheme=1
He has interviewed many Washington figures on his shows, including Vice President
Vice President of the United States
The Vice President of the United States is the holder of a public office created by the United States Constitution. The Vice President, together with the President of the United States, is indirectly elected by the people, through the Electoral College, to a four-year term...
Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney
Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney served as the 46th Vice President of the United States , under George W. Bush....
and Secretary of Defense
United States Secretary of Defense
The Secretary of Defense is the head and chief executive officer of the Department of Defense of the United States of America. This position corresponds to what is generally known as a Defense Minister in other countries...
Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Henry Rumsfeld is an American politician and businessman. Rumsfeld served as the 13th Secretary of Defense from 1975 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford, and as the 21st Secretary of Defense from 2001 to 2006 under President George W. Bush. He is both the youngest and the oldest person to...
.
His book about the potential presidential campaign of Fred Thompson, The Fred Factor: How Fred Thompson May Change the Face of the '08 Election, (ISBN 0976873710) was released on May 25, 2007.
With reference to Julian Assange
Julian Assange
Julian Paul Assange is an Australian publisher, journalist, writer, computer programmer and Internet activist. He is the editor in chief of WikiLeaks, a whistleblower website and conduit for worldwide news leaks with the stated purpose of creating open governments.WikiLeaks has published material...
he said "[...] folks like Julian Assange should be targeted as terrorists. They should either be captured and kept at Guantanamo Bay, or killed."
In 2000 and 2001 Gill was instrumental in leading an effective protest against a state income tax
Income tax
An income tax is a tax levied on the income of individuals or businesses . Various income tax systems exist, with varying degrees of tax incidence. Income taxation can be progressive, proportional, or regressive. When the tax is levied on the income of companies, it is often called a corporate...
. At his urging, anti-tax protesters deluged legislators with phone calls and e-mails, and circled the state capitol building in cars and trucks, continually honking their horns. Americans for Tax Reform
Americans for Tax Reform
Americans for Tax Reform is an advocacy group and taxpayer group whose stated goal is "a system in which taxes are simpler, flatter, more visible, and lower than they are today. The government's power to control one's life derives from its power to tax...
recognized Gill with a "Hero of the Taxpayers" award for these actions. However, there also was criticism for the tactics used, which resulted in broken windows and other damage at the capitol, required state police to barricade and patrol the capitol to protect legislators, and led to several legislators being taken from the capitol building by ambulance to be hospitalized for cardiac problems. (See CFIF.org, Citizens Defeat Tennessee Income Tax Measure; Patrick Poole, Tennesseans stage tax revolt: Massive revolt at state Capitol stops new income-tax plan, World Net Daily, June 14, 2000; Patrick Poole, Tennessee v. talk radio: Legislature tries broadcast tax after hosts defeat income tax, World Net Daily, June 16, 2000; CNN, Antitax Protest Succeeds in Tennessee, July 13, 2001; and Patrick Poole, Tennessee Tax Protest: A Report from the Front Lines, August 1, 2001.)
External links
- Gill Report - Steve Gill's website
- http://www.southernledger.com/blogs/stevegill/