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Married to Jill Hannity (] Rhodes) since 1993, Hannity has two children, Patrick and Merri Kelly.<ref>{{cite web|last=Lipton |first=Michael A. |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20136407,00.html |title=The (Far) Right Stuff |publisher=People.com |accessdate=2013-09-02}}</ref> Married to Jill Hannity (] Rhodes) since 1993, Hannity has two children, Patrick and Merri Kelly.<ref>{{cite web|last=Lipton |first=Michael A. |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20136407,00.html |title=The (Far) Right Stuff |publisher=People.com |accessdate=2013-09-02}}</ref>

Hannity is suggested to have maintained a friendship with ] activist ]<ref>Max Blumenthal (2005-06-03). . The Nation.</ref>. Turner was once a frequent guest on Hannity's ] talk show, and claims that this was the genesis of their relationship<ref> Ellen (2008-03-23). . News Hounds.</ref>. Hannity has since denied ever having personally affiliated with Turner, albeit in contradictory terms.<ref>Jason Linkins (2008-03-23). "". The Huffington Post.</ref>


While discussing gun control during a Fox News interview with ] on October 6, 2014, Hannity said that he has carried a weapon "more than half my adult life".<ref>{{cite news |last=de Moraes |first=Lisa |url=http://deadline.com/2014/10/piers-morgan-sean-hannity-gun-control-debate-847112/ |title=Piers Morgan Resurfaces On Cable News, Talking Guns With FNC's Sean Hannity |work=Deadline Hollywood |publisher=Penske Business Media |date=2014-10-06 |accessdate=2014-10-07 }}</ref> While discussing gun control during a Fox News interview with ] on October 6, 2014, Hannity said that he has carried a weapon "more than half my adult life".<ref>{{cite news |last=de Moraes |first=Lisa |url=http://deadline.com/2014/10/piers-morgan-sean-hannity-gun-control-debate-847112/ |title=Piers Morgan Resurfaces On Cable News, Talking Guns With FNC's Sean Hannity |work=Deadline Hollywood |publisher=Penske Business Media |date=2014-10-06 |accessdate=2014-10-07 }}</ref>
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In January 2007, Hannity began a new Sunday night television show on Fox News, ''Hannity's America''. In January 2007, Hannity began a new Sunday night television show on Fox News, ''Hannity's America''.

In 2008, while Hannity and ] of the ] were debating ]'s association with ], Shabazz asked Hannity if he should "be judged by (his) promotion and association with ]", a renowned ] and ]. Hannity began to say that he didn't know Turner, but then said he was someone he had banned from his radio program ten years before.<ref>Jason Linkins (2008-03-23). "". The Huffington Post.</ref> Turner subsequently gave an account of their association on his website, in which he said of Hannity's response: "I was quite disappointed when Sean Hannity at first tried to say he didn't know me. In fact, Sean does know me and we were quite friendly a few years ago." ], Program Director of ], disputed the account, which described a friendship developing between Turner and Hannity in 1993, three years before Hannity was actually hired at WABC.<ref> Ellen (2008-03-23). "". News Hounds.</ref>


In November 2008, Colmes announced his departure from ''Hannity & Colmes''. After the show's final broadcast on January 9, 2009, Hannity took over the time slot with his own new show, ''Hannity'', which has a format similar to ''Hannity's America''. In November 2008, Colmes announced his departure from ''Hannity & Colmes''. After the show's final broadcast on January 9, 2009, Hannity took over the time slot with his own new show, ''Hannity'', which has a format similar to ''Hannity's America''.

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Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity in 2015.
BornSean Patrick Hannity
(1961-12-30) December 30, 1961 (age 62)
New York City, New York
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Radio host/television host, political commentator, author
Employer(s)Citadel Broadcasting, Fox News Channel
Known forPolitical commentary
SpouseJill Rhodes Hannity
Parent(s)Hugh J. and Lillian F. Hannity
WebsiteHannity.com

Sean Patrick Hannity (born December 30, 1961) is an American radio and television host, author, and conservative political commentator. He is the host of The Sean Hannity Show, a nationally syndicated talk radio show that airs throughout the United States. Hannity also hosts a cable news show, Hannity, on Fox News Channel. Hannity has written three New York Times–bestselling books: Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty over Liberalism, Deliver Us from Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism, and Conservative Victory: Defeating Obama’s Radical Agenda.

Personal background

Sean Patrick Hannity was born in New York City, New York, the son of Lillian (Flynn) and Hugh Hannity. All of his grandparents immigrated to the United States from Ireland. He has two sisters. He grew up in Franklin Square, New York, and attended Sacred Heart Seminary in Hempstead, New York, during his middle school years and St. Pius X Preparatory Seminary high school in Uniondale, New York. Hannity dropped out of New York University and Adelphi University.

Married to Jill Hannity (née Rhodes) since 1993, Hannity has two children, Patrick and Merri Kelly.

Hannity is suggested to have maintained a friendship with far-right activist Hal Turner. Turner was once a frequent guest on Hannity's WABC talk show, and claims that this was the genesis of their relationship. Hannity has since denied ever having personally affiliated with Turner, albeit in contradictory terms.

While discussing gun control during a Fox News interview with Piers Morgan on October 6, 2014, Hannity said that he has carried a weapon "more than half my adult life".

Professional life

Hannity in a radio and television interview with Vice President of the U.S. Dick Cheney

Hannity hosted his first talk radio show in 1989 at the volunteer college station at UC Santa Barbara, KCSB-FM, while working as a general contractor. The show aired for 40 hours of air time; Regarding his first show, Hannity has said, "I wasn't good at it. I was terrible." Hannity's weekly show on KCSB was canceled after less than a year by station managers. This was after two shows featuring the book The AIDS Coverup: The Real and Alarming Facts about AIDS by Gene Antonio; among other remarks made during the broadcast, Hannity told a lesbian caller "I feel sorry for your child." The station later reversed its decision to dismiss Hannity due in part to a campaign conducted by the Santa Barbara Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. Hannity decided against returning to KCSB.

After leaving KCSB, Hannity placed an ad in radio publications presenting himself as "the most talked about college radio host in America." Radio station WVNN in Athens, Alabama (part of the Huntsville market) then hired him to be the afternoon talk show host. From Huntsville, he moved to WGST in Atlanta in 1992, filling the slot vacated by Neal Boortz, who had moved to competing station WSB. In September 1996 Fox News co-founder Roger Ailes hired the then relatively unknown Hannity to host a television program under the working title Hannity and LTBD ("liberal to be determined"). Alan Colmes was then hired to co-host and the show debuted as Hannity & Colmes.

Later that year Hannity left WGST for New York, where WABC had him substitute for their afternoon drive time host during Christmas week. In January 1997, WABC put Hannity on the air full-time, giving him the late night time slot. WABC then moved Hannity to the same drive time slot he had filled temporarily a little more than a year earlier. Hannity has been on WABC's afternoon time slot since January 1998.

Conservative Cal Thomas and liberal Bob Beckel, in their book Common Ground, describe Hannity as a leader of the pack among broadcasting political polarizers, which following James Q. Wilson they define as those who have "an intense commitment to a candidate, a culture, or an ideology that sets people in one group definitively apart from people in another, rival group."

Television

See also: Hannity & Colmes, Hannity's America, and Hannity

Hannity was a co-host of Hannity & Colmes, an American political "point-counterpoint"-style television program on the Fox News Channel featuring Hannity and Alan Colmes as co-hosts. Hannity presented the conservative point of view with Colmes providing the liberal viewpoint. Critics argued that the show highlighted Hannity's views and those of conservative guests over Colmes' and those of liberal guests.

Hannity had on air clashes with show guests such as Fr. Thomas J. Euteneuer of Human Life International, who challenged Hannity on his public dissent from the Catholic Church on the issue of contraception. Hannity stated that if the Catholic Church were to excommunicate him over the issue, he would join Jerry Falwell's Thomas Road Baptist Church.

In January 2007, Hannity began a new Sunday night television show on Fox News, Hannity's America.

In 2008, while Hannity and Malik Zulu Shabazz of the New Black Panther Party were debating Barack Obama's association with Jeremiah Wright, Shabazz asked Hannity if he should "be judged by (his) promotion and association with Hal Turner", a renowned white nationalist and holocaust denier. Hannity began to say that he didn't know Turner, but then said he was someone he had banned from his radio program ten years before. Turner subsequently gave an account of their association on his website, in which he said of Hannity's response: "I was quite disappointed when Sean Hannity at first tried to say he didn't know me. In fact, Sean does know me and we were quite friendly a few years ago." Phil Boyce, Program Director of WABC, disputed the account, which described a friendship developing between Turner and Hannity in 1993, three years before Hannity was actually hired at WABC.

In November 2008, Colmes announced his departure from Hannity & Colmes. After the show's final broadcast on January 9, 2009, Hannity took over the time slot with his own new show, Hannity, which has a format similar to Hannity's America.

Radio

Sean Hannity speaking at the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference in February 2015.

Hannity's radio program is a conservative political talk show that features Hannity's opinions and ideology related to current issues and politicians. The Sean Hannity Show began national syndication on September 10, 2001, on over 500 stations nationwide. In 2004, Hannity signed a $25 million five-year contract extension with ABC Radio (now Citadel Media) to continue the show through 2009. The program was made available via Armed Forces Radio Network in 2006. In June 2007, ABC Radio was sold to Citadel Communications and in the summer of 2008, Hannity was signed for a $100 million five-year contract. As of October 2013, the program is heard by over 13.25 million listeners a week.

In January 2007, Clear Channel Communications signed a groupwide three-year extension with Hannity on over 80 stations. The largest stations in the group deal included KTRH Houston, KFYI Phoenix, WPGB Pittsburgh, WKRC Cincinnati, WOOD Grand Rapids, WFLA Tampa, WOAI San Antonio, WLAC Nashville, and WREC Memphis.

The opening theme music for the Sean Hannity Show is "Independence Day" by Martina McBride followed by "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor. The writer of McBride's song, Gretchen Peters, has stated publicly in interview that the song is about domestic abuse, not political values and though she cannot stop Hannity from using the song, she disagrees with its use but uses the royalties he pays to donate to her own causes. As of May 2014 the theme song was changed to the line "This is how we roll" from the song of the same name by Florida Georgia Line.

Hannity signed a long-term contract to remain with Premiere Networks in September 2013.

At the beginning of 2014 Hannity signed contracts to air on several Salem Communications stations including WDTK Detroit, WIND Chicago, WWRC Washington, D.C., and KSKY Dallas.

Books

Hannity is the author of three books. The first two, Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty over Liberalism and Deliver Us from Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism, were published through ReganBooks. Both of these books reached the nonfiction New York Times bestseller list, the second of which stayed there for five weeks. Hannity has stated that he is too busy to write many books, and dictated a lot of his own two books into a tape recorder while driving in to do his radio show.

Hannity wrote his third book, Conservative Victory: Defeating Obama’s Radical Agenda, which was released by HarperCollins on March 30, 2010. The book became Hannity's third New York Times Bestseller.

Freedom Concerts

Since 2003, Hannity has hosted country music–themed "Freedom Concerts" to raise money for charity. According to WHIO, more than $9 million has been raised by the concerts and by WHIO listeners as of 2009.

Awards and honors

  • Hannity received a Marconi Award in 2003 and 2007 as the Network Syndicated Personality of the Year from the National Association of Broadcasters.
  • In 2009, Talkers Magazine listed Hannity as #2 on their list of the 100 most important radio talk show hosts in America. The same magazine gave Hannity their Freedom of Speech Award in 2003.
  • In 2005, Jerry Falwell, chancellor of Liberty University, awarded Hannity an honorary degree.
  • Radio and Records magazine has honored Hannity with the National Talk Show Host of the Year Award for three consecutive years.

Bibliography

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