Ed Schultz
Edward Andrew Schultz ( born January 27, 1954 in Norfolk, Virginia) is an American television and radio host and commentator. He is best known as host of the eponymous political commentary program The Ed Show at the cable news channel MSNBC program.
Life and work
Schultz grew up as the son of an engineer and a teacher at Larchmont. In 1972 he joined the Maury High School in Norfolk from. He then went as a football player with a sports scholarship at the Minnesota State University Moorhead. After a few years playing as a professional football player for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Schultz worked for fifteen years as a sports reporter for local stations in Fargo, North Dakota. In this capacity, he reported on radio and television on football and basketball games of the teams of North Dakota State University. In 1996, Schultz to the transmitter KFGP in Fargo, for which he for several years commented Football matches.
In his first marriage Schultz was married to the producer Maureen Zimmerman, from whom he divorced in 1993. In 1998 he married his second wife Wendy Schultz.
After Schultz had long years been close to the Republicans, and in 1994 even considered running for Congress as a Republican candidate in consideration, he oriented himself in the later 1990s, always to the left. As a key experiences he cites his mother's Alzheimer's disease, as well as his encounters with homeless war veterans who had sharpened his social consciousness. Accordingly he broke his reference to the Republicans and approached to the Democrats. Since 2000 he is a member of the Democratic Party.
2005 Schultz expanded his range of activities significantly further: in addition to his work as sports presenter he began in October 2005 with the moderation of a politically own radio show, which is titled eponym The Ed Schultz Show. With over three million listeners per week, the show is the most listened to on the seventeenth talk radio show in the USA and is considered the most listened dishes left talk radio show. Meanwhile, Schultz describes himself as " Lefty " and is committed to the American labor movement. In accordance with his activist view of society he admits his radio show habitually one of the " plight of the American working class " large room.
2009 Schultz was hired by the cable news channel MSNBC as a moderator. On April 6, the channel began airing the broadcast on weekdays at 18.00 clock Eastern time, one-hour show, The Ed Show, the political events of the day commented on and analyzed in the Schultz from his personal observatory. The program, which replaced the mission in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with David Shuster, as Schultz's radio show by their dedicated " left spin " is marked. Since early 2011, The Ed Show runs at 22.00 clock Eastern time. In February 2012, the program reached an average of 1.327 million viewers. On 11 July 2011 The Ed Show was the first time since the start of the most-watched show of all news channels on their time slot in the " target demographic " ( 24-54 years).
On October 24, 2011 The Ed Show moved to the time slot 20:00 clock eastern time and thus heralds the primetime MSNBC.