With Wendy moving to TV, former TV talk show host Montel Williams is moving the show to radio - well, where else would he take it? Wendy has confiscated his TV studio for "The Wendy Williams Show" which premiers (for real this time) July 13.
Montel started a daily show on Air America radio yesterday, with the ambitious goal of changing both the tone and depth of today's talk media conversation.
The show, "Montel Williams Across America" is a political program, of sorts.
"My beliefs include both left and right," he says. "That's the way it should be. Don't just pick a side. Look at each issue."
Alas, he says, often we don't.
"What media put out, most people follow," he says. "We are lemmings. That's why it's a concern that 80% of radio talk is conservative. That's why it's a problem to see the same six or seven people on talk shows every day. There are plenty of people with different views who are just as informed. Let's bring them in."
Besides broadening talk radio's perspective, he'd also like to modify its tone.
"There's so much anger behind it," he says. "It brings the discussion down to a playground level, when what we need to do is lift the discussion up.
"I don't call people names. There's nothing in the world I'm afraid to discuss, but let's argue using facts."
After the three-year deal with Air America, he says she will run for political office.
"Eventually, that's going to happen," he says. "I've already been approached, by both parties, and the time hasn't been right so far. But within the next 10 years, it will be. You can count on it."
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