Phil Boyce

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Phil Boyce is an American program director for NewsTalkRadio WABC (AM) in New York City, as well Vice President of news/talk programming for ABC Radio.

1 Overview
2 Radio career
3 WABC Radio timeline
4 Radio industry honors
5 External links

[edit] Overview

Boyce programs WABC Radio programs as well as nationally syndicated ABC Radio shows, including The Sean Hannity Show and The Mark Levin Show. Boyce handles programming at all ABC Radio news/talk stations, including KABC-AM in Los Angeles, WLS-AM in Chicago and WMAL-AM in Washington, D.C. He reports to general manager Timothy McCarthy at WABC, as well as to Mitch Dolan, president of the ABC Radio Station Group on the corporate level.

Boyce was raised in Pueblo, Colorado.

[edit] Radio career

[edit] Career beginnings

WKY-AM, Oklahoma City
KFEL-AM, Pueblo, CO
KDZA-FM, Pueblo, CO
KVMN-FM, Pueblo, CO

[edit] News director

KHOW-AM, Denver
WFH, Wichita
KYFM, Bartlesville, Okalahoma
KIMN, Denver

[edit] Vice president for news/talk

KGO, San Francisco
KSFO, San Francisco
KABC, Los Angeles
WBAP, Dallas
WLS, Chicago

[edit] Program director for news/talk

WJR-AM, Detroit
WMAL, Washington D.C.

[edit] WABC Radio timeline

April 1995—Joins WABC Radio as program director, replacing John Mainelli
1996,—Creates WABC’s morning team of Curtis Sliwa and Ron Kuby.
1997—Boyce hires Sean Hannity, then moves him to PM drive-time in 1998.
March 11, 2005—Promoted to vice president of programming for ABC Radio's news/talk stations, while keeping his title as operations manager and program director at WABC Radio.
November 2004 - Brings back Coast to Coast AM to the overnight shift.
December 2005—Brings back the oldies to WABC on Saturday nights with Saturday Night Oldies.

[edit] Radio industry honors

Radio Ink Magazine's top ten Major Market Program Directors in America for 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
Radio and Records Industry Achievement Award for News/Talk Program Director of the Year for 2003
WABC selected as Radio and Records top News/Talk Station of the Year for 2003
WABC selected as Legendary Station of the Year by the National Association of Broadcasters for 2004
Radio and Records Magazine News/Talk Programmer of the Year, 2004 and 2005