Rick Emerson

Quick Facts

Full Name	Rick Emerson
Occupation	Radio Personality
Date Of Birth	Mar 7, 1973(1973-03-07)
Age	51
Birthplace	Kennewick
Country	United States
Birth City	Washington
Horoscope	Pisces

Rick Emerson Biography

Rick Emerson is one of the most popular and richest Radio Personality who was born on March 7, 1973 in Kennewick, Washington, United States. Rick Emerson was born in Kennewick, Washington, on March 7, 1973. From a young age, Emerson was very interested in radio. To interview his friends, he used a RadioShack tape recording device. “I was like Larry King in shorts.” He began volunteering at his local radio station when he was 14 years old. He graduated fourth in his high school class and moved to Spokane, Washington where he started his radio talk show. He broadcast weeknights at midnight from the basement of the station’s headquarters. He said, “It took me just hours to talk to NO ONE.” “The only calls that I received were from wrong numbers.” He managed to build a loyal following during this period. He was known by his stage name, Rick Taylor. This is the last name he took from a phone-book. Emerson was pulled over for a broken taillight. A bench warrant was issued for Emerson after he failed to pay the $10 traffic ticket.

Emerson was offered a job in Portland by Bruce Agler, KOTK 1080 AM’s program director. Emerson was only on-air for a short time in Portland before he was offered national syndication with the NBG Radio Network. Emerson hosted the nationally syndicated program for three years before he was fired. In 2001 Emerson was rehired at KOTK and soon paired up with Tim Riley, a news reporter. Emerson was paired with Sarah X Dylan, who later became a producer and eventually a co-host, after being mixed with a number of producers.

Bigger Than Jesus is a one-man stage show that Emerson performed in Portland, Oregon. The Portland Mercury wrote that Bigger Than Jesus is “Emerson’s deeply personal love letter to rock music… a coming-of-age tribute to the music that shaped his life.” The show debuted to a standing room only audience in 2003. The title is a reference to John Lennon’s infamous statement that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. The show was directed and filmed by Portland film director Joni DeRouchie. Emerson and DeRouchie produced a DVD of the show in 2005. The pair also collaborated on the short thriller film Remote Control (2004), the television pilot Rock Roundtable (2005), and the radio play Ebenezer? I Barely Knew Her! (2007).

CBS Radio, reacting in part to the strength of support for Emerson throughout the Portland metro area, decided to give Emerson an opportunity to retool Johnson AM 970, an all-comedy radio station. Broadcasting from “the plushly appointed but not overly ostentatious studios high atop the bottom of the KOIN tower,” Emerson was back on the air with Tim Riley and producer Sarah X. Dylan. Within months, the station was retooled as “AM 970, Solid State Radio” and took on a lineup of syndicated broadcasts from around the country, including Tom Leykis and Phil Hendrie, both of those programs had been previously paired with Emerson on other stations. Emerson’s fans were loyal, as evidenced by a May 2008 listener party where friends of his show and listeners held a roast in his honor. Under Emerson’s leadership, KCMD 970 AM became a talk powerhouse, and changed its name to “The Talker” in mid-2008. After a seven-year run with the show, Tim Riley was laid off in December 2008 when CBS Portland went through a series of staff reductions. In order to continue featuring news on the show, Emerson invited many other laid-off Portland media personalities to fill in for Riley.

Emerson lost his microphone when KCNR was sold by Radio Disney in November 1996. His semi-biography Bigger than Jesus reveals that he discovered about KCNR’s new programming after he tuned in to the station one morning as he was getting ready for work. He found Radio Disney liners playing and music playing. Todd Herman, Emerson’s former KCNR colleague, recalled the financial hardships of the post-firing period. “We were literally, swearing to God, asking credit at the convenience shop.” Emerson moved to San Diego where he was a clerk at a convenience store. Emerson was offered a job with KOTK in Portland, Oregon in November 1997. Thus was born The Rick Emerson Show.

Rick Emerson Net Worth

Rick Emerson is one of the richest Radio Personality from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Rick Emerson 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Rick Emerson, formerly Rick Taylor, was a radio personality best known for his radio show, The Rick Emerson Show. It was broadcast from Portland in some form from 1997 to 2012. Emerson was also the host of Drive-By Radio in Salt Lake City as “Rick Taylor”. He was also the host of Outlook Portland, a public affairs television program. He also co-authored Zombie Economics. Emerson announced his retirement as a broadcaster on January 2, 2012.

Emerson was hired in January 1995 by KCNR Salt Lake City. He co-hosted Drive- By Radio’s afternoon drive show Drive-By Radio alongside Clyde Lewis. As in Spokane and Salt Lake City, Emerson was known as “Rick Taylor”. Salt Lake City Weekly called Rick Taylor “everything a listener to talk radio could want: Confrontational and funny, smart, vaguely libertarian, pop-culture obsessed, and driven to get your attention!” Like no one else on SLC’s radio waves. He was appointed program director at KCNR, and helped to create one of Utah’s most popular radio stations. Later, Bill Frost, a journalist, wrote that KCNR AM 1320 (later 840) gave the Salt Lake Valley the most vibrant, in-your face, talk-radio format it’d ever heard. Clyde Lewis, Todd Herman and Martin Davies took the airwaves back from the old guard, which included political pontificators and creaky conspiratorialists. They also introduced the radio to a younger audience. It was rock and roll radio without music. What they achieved in such a short time span is still talked about today.

The Rick Emerson Show was a conversational style radio talk show broadcast from Portland, Oregon from 1997 to 2012. The show’s most enduring lineup featured Rick, Sarah X Dylan and news reporter Tim Riley. They were joined by regulars Matt “F Matt” Peterson, Kyle the Intern, Jolie from Corporate Accounts Payable, and Kristin from Accounting, as well as frequent guests like Aaron Geek in the City, film reviewer Dawn Taylor, Jen Lane of Barfly Magazine, Scott Dally of filmfever.org, and Ground Zero host Clyde Lewis (Rick’s former Drive-By Radio co-host). They would chat about (and skewer and dismantle) pop culture topics like music, movies, television, tech, celebrities, and news and politics. They would also talk about their own social lives and the local Portland scene. Emerson would at times launch into a rant against some particularly bothersome aspect of modern society; other times he would rant in favor of what he likes, as in his “PDX Rant” about why he loves the city of Portland. In December 2007, the show presented the live radio play Ebenezer? I Barely Knew Her!, a modern-day take-off on A Christmas Carol. The show hosted listener events such as a Halloween party where everyone dressed as a dead celebrity. House band The Tim Riley Factor performed at live events. The band included Emerson, Sarah X Dylan and Kristin from Accounting (but not Tim Riley). The Rick Emerson Show attracted a loyal audience that journalist (and show guest) Peter Ames Carlin called “almost unnervingly enthusiastic.” Kristi Turnquist of The Oregonian described Emerson’s style as a “distinctive blend of arcane references, multisyllabic vocabulary and mythic grasp of old TV shows.” And Mark Baumgarten of Willamette Week described Emerson as “brash, uncompromisingly geeky, smart, occasionally completely off the mark and funny.”

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Rick Ranked on the list of most popular Radio Personality. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Rick Emerson celebrates birthday on March 7 of every year.