America’s top ten local talk show hosts: #5 – Casey Bartholomew/Free Agent

Give Casey a micande a telephone and he’s guaranteed to make listeners laugh and politicians quake, because nobody motivates an audience like this guy.

Casey Bartholomew
Free Agent (formerly of New Jersey 101.5)
Monday-Friday 2 -7 pm EDT

We continue our Top 10 Countdown with #5 today. Look for #4 tomorrow.

Until last month Casey Bartholomew & Ray Rossi, “The Jersey Guys,” hosted the most listened-to FM talk show in the country. The station’s management recently informed him that it was in cost-cutting mode and that he was now “pursuing other opportunities.” Casey didn’t know that he wanted to pursue any other opportunities, but so be it.

Casey cut his talk radio teeth at KFI/Los Angeles, the nation’s top-rated talk station, when he was still a college kid. Swear to god he wrote and produced the funniest station imaging material in the country. You knew way back then that he was going to do well in the talk radio business.

Put Casey in front of a mic, hand him a telephone and he’s guaranteed to make listeners laugh and politicians quake, because nobody motivates an audience like this guy. For example:

He brought 2000 listeners to the New Jersey Statehouse in the dead of winter to protest a massive toll hike on the New Jersey Turnpike. And stopped it from happening.

More than 2000 listeners also attended a tax protest disguised as a funeral for the middle class. Incensed listeners sent in thousands of empty wallets, The Jersey Guys put them in a casket, and Casey gave a eulogy. The politicians blinked and the tax increase died.

Casey’s worked in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and several other top ten markets. If you’re lucky Casey Bartholomew will end up on a station in your market very soon.

Here’s Casey on the subject of school resegregation:

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And here he is demanding tax refunds from New Jersey’s state surplus:

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The Top 10:

America’s top ten local talk show hosts: #1 – Tim Conway/Los Angeles

America’s top ten local talk show hosts: #2 – Armstrong & Getty/Sacramento

America’s top ten local talk show hosts: #3 – Sean Rima/Austin

America’s top ten local talk show hosts: #4 – Jack & Tedd/Tampa Bay

America’s top ten local talk show hosts: #5 – Casey Bartholomew/Free Agent

America’s top ten local talk show hosts: #6 – Mandy Connell/Louisville

America’s top ten local talk show hosts: #7 – Walton & Johnson/Houston

America’s top ten local talk show hosts: #8 – Doug McIntyre/New York & Los Angeles

America’s top ten local talk show hosts: #9 – Jamie Allman/St Louis

America’s top ten local talk show hosts: #10 – Michael Berry/Houston

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