Jim Quinn

For other people with the same name, seeJames Quinn (disambiguation).

Jim Quinn
QuinnMCingat aPittsburghTax Day Tea Party
Born	(1943-02-26)February 26, 1943 New Jersey
Career
Show	Quinn in the Morning
Station(s)	WYSL,WAVL
Time slot	Weekdays, 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. EST
Country	United States
Previous show	The War Room with Quinn and Rose
Website	www.warroom.com

Jim Quinn(born February 26, 1943) is an Americanconservativeradio talk showhost based inPittsburgh,Pennsylvania,currently hostingQuinn in the MorningonWYSLinAvon, New York,andWAVLinApollo, Pennsylvania.Until its cancellation in November 2013, his programThe War Room with Quinn and Rosewas aired on 12 stations across the U.S. and was also heard onXM Satellite RadioChannel 244from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. Eastern Time, Monday through Friday.

Disc jockey and novelty host

Before beginning his political morning show, Quinn spent a number of years at KQV in the 1960s and 1970s, where he befriended his eventual political mentorRush Limbaugh.Limbaugh worked at KQV and at WIXZ in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, as a disc jockey under the name Jeff Christie.

Quinn is best remembered in the Pittsburgh area as the vociferous nighttime host on KQV radio in the 1960s, during the station's peak as aTop 40power. Quinn was hired from WING/Dayton in 1967 and had an immediate impact on the market. In 1968, he jumped at an opportunity to take a job at WIBG Radio 99in Philadelphia, but was back at KQV in less than a year. He stayed until 1972, then spent time inNew York Cityat WPIX-FM.

He then moved toBuffalo, New York,where in the late 1970s he became known to listeners throughout the northeast onWWKB(WKBW at the time), a 50,000-watt station that took requests from as far away as Norway.Quinn's final hour included a trivia game called "Stump The Audience", where the answers had been kept "in a sealed envelope onFunk and Wagnalls' doorstep since noon today ". In an emotional farewell as he returned to Pittsburgh, Quinn said," May I getlockjawif I ever forget how much I appreciate the people who listen. "

A Pittsburgh station, 13Q or WKTQ, lured him back in 1977 to capture the adults who had grown up listening to him on KQV. During his tenure at 13Q, Quinn issued a parody45 rpm recordof the then Top 40 hit "Undercover Angel"titled" UndercoverPothole";the parody lamented the atrocious condition of Pittsburgh roads during that period. In 1979 Quinn moved to the midday slot at WTAE radio, an adult contemporary station in Pittsburgh, under the aegis of General Manager Ted Atkins (" Captain Showbiz "). In 1983, he became half of"The Quinn and Banana Show"alongside Don Jefferson on B-94 FM, which ran inPittsburghuntil 1992. Their format was bathroom humor. After a course of conduct wherein they implied that News Director Liz Randolph was promiscuous, she sued the station and Quinn and Banana for defamation and sexual harassment. On Valentine's Day 1990, Randolph won on all counts, and a jury awarded her $694,000.Three years later, his FM morning show was canceled. Quinn largely credits this lawsuit with inducing his conversion to political conservatism, saying "my formerly liberal eyes were opened to the agenda of the feminists, their friends and supporters in the media."

Talk show host

After Quinn's program was canceled on B-94, he moved in 1993 toWRRK,where he gradually adopted his conservative political talk format. The program started in music format with Quinn as D.J., asQuinn in the Morning.But increasingly during breaks in music and during news reading he would editorialize. With the positive response he got from callers, and with increased ratings vs. the dominant a.m. radioThe DVE Morning ShowonWDVE(withScott PaulsonandJim Krenn), the format eventually became entirely talk, focusing on conservative views of current events, and remained the only talk show on an otherwise music radio format. The program eventually moved toWPGBradio in 2004 when that station adopted an all talk format that included conservative nationally syndicated shows likeThe Rush Limbaugh Show.Given the nature of his politics, the show was always locally controversial based on political affiliation. By 2008, Quinn's inflammatory language had earned him notoriety; for example, theBill MoyersJournalonPBSnoted he referred to theNational Organization for Womenas the "National Organization for Whores", which was often reported out of its full context, since Quinn would continue "...they're whores for liberal politics in general, and they were whores for Bill Clinton in particular."The Pittsburgh Post-Gazettereported that as of November 18, 2013, Quinn and his radio partner, Rose Somma Tennent, had been removed from the WPGB lineup.

Quinn is a proponent of aconstitutionalgovernment that adheres to the guiding principles of the nation's founders. He champions a smallerfederal governmentand free markets. He regularly equates modern Left Liberalism withMarxism.He commonly refers to "Quinn's Laws", a collection of statements that sum up his world view, such as "Liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent" (e.g., theWar on Povertyhas led to even greater poverty).He also has many personal views he is fond of voicing, such as "liberty is the solution to the human condition".

The show, broadcast with co-host Rose Somma Tennent (aka "Radio Rose" ), aired live weekdays from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. EST on certain affiliates and on XM Satellite Radio Channel 244; others replay the first hour after 9. It can be heard worldwide on the Internet via Warroom.com.Quinn's radio show abruptly ended in a contract dispute with Clear Channel radio in November 2013.

Quinn authored a so-called "liberal version" ofThe Ant and the Grasshopperin 1994.

After unsuccessfully negotiating to bring his show toWJASin Pittsburgh (the station that picked up most of WPGB's lineup after a format change), Quinn agreed to resume his morning show on one of his former affiliates,WYSL,a station located outside ofRochester, New York.

External links

• "WRRK morning host points to lawsuit as turning point in philosophy, career" by Dmitri Vassilaros in thePittsburgh Tribune Review