1. Rush Limbaughstarted his radio career at 16 working for a hometown radio station. In 1971, he worked for a short time at KQV in Pittsburgh under the name "Jeff Christie". During the 1970s, Limbaugh worked at various stations including KUDL/Kansas City (as Jeff Christie) and KMBZ under his own name.
National Syndication: Began August 1, 1988 and now heard on over 600 stations. His audience is now more than 20 million people each week.
2. Howard Stern 
National Syndication: The Howard Stern Show debuted in Philadelphia in 1986 and went on to air in markets across the United States, mostly on radio stations owned by Infinity Broadcasting (Now CBS Radio) 
Stern began broadcasting his show on SIRIUS Satellite Radio January 9, 2006. His $500 million dollar deal (+ stock bonuses) make Stern the highest paid radio personality in the U.S.
Claim To More Fame: In 2000 he was #30 on the Forbes Power List.3. Don Imus
Radio: Imus began as a DJ in 1968 in California, where he worked at KUTY, Palmdale. He worked at both KJOY in Stockton in and KXOA, Sacramento in 1969.
In 1970, Imus worked at WGAR, Cleveland.
He arrived in New York to host WNBC's morning show in 1971 and worked at WNBC until 1977.
After a short 1978 stint in Cleveland, Ohio, he returned to New York City in 1979.
In 1988, WNBC was renamed WFAN. In 1996, the Imus program began simulcasting on MSNBC.
On April 11, 2007, the Imus simulcast was removed from MSNBC and on April 12, 2007, CBS Radio announced it would cease to broadcast his daily show. A week earlier, the original shock-jock made what many considered a racially-charged remark about the Rutgers women basketball team and the ensuring criticism built into such a firestorm that black leaders successfully brought pressure to bear on his employers to have him removed from the air.
On August 14, 2007, Imus settled a contract lawsuit against CBS reportedly for $20 million dollars.
On November 1, 2007, it was announced Imus signed a new contract with Citadel Broadcasting and began airing his show from WABC-AM/New York on December 3, 2007.
4. Larry King
He is recognized in the United States as one of the premier broadcast interviewers. King has conducted some 40,000 interviews with politicians, athletes, entertainers, and other newsmakers. He has won an Emmy Award, two Peabody Awards, and ten Cable ACE Awards.
King began as a local Florida journalist and radio interviewer in the 1950s and '60s. He became prominent as an all-night national radio broadcaster starting in 1978, and then began hosting the nightly interview TV program Larry King Live on CNN, which started in 1985.
On the Larry King Live show, King hosts guests from a broad range of topics. This includes controversial figures of UFO conspiracy theories and alleged psychics. One notable guest is Sylvia Browne, who in 2005 told the Newsweek magazine that King, a believer in the paranormal, asks her to do private psychic readings.[8]
Unlike many interviewers, King has a direct, non-confrontational approach. His interview style is characteristically frank, but with occasional bursts of irreverence and humor. His approach attracts some guests who would not otherwise appear. King, who is known for his general lack of pre-interview preparation, once bragged that he never pre-reads the books of authors who appear on his show. In a show dedicated to the surviving Beatles, for example, King asked George Harrison's widow about the song "Something," which was written about George Harrison's first wife. He seemed surprised when she did not know very much about the song.
Throughout his career King has interviewed many of the leading figures of his time. In all, CNN's online biography continues to claim that King has conducted more than 40,000 interviews over the course of his career.[9] King would have to have conducted over 800 interviews a year in order to have talked to this many people.
King also wrote a regular newspaper column in USA Today for almost 20 years, from shortly after that newspaper's origin in 1982 until September 2001.[10] The column consisted of short "plugs, superlatives and dropped names" but was dropped when the newspaper redesigned its "Life" section.[11] The column was resurrected in blog form in November 2008[12] and on Twitter in April 2009.[13]
Sally Jessy Raphael
is an American talk show host, known for the eponymous Sally talk show she hosted for two decades.
Raphael's husband Karl Soderlund assumed the role of her manager, and was a partner in her two biggest successes. She hosted a radio call-in advice show distributed by NBC Talknet which ran from Monday November 2, 1981 to 1987, but is most famous for hosting the television talk show, Sally Jessy Raphaël show (later shortened to simply Sally), which ran in first-run syndication from October 17, 1983 to 2002.
Raphael was there at the right time. "Talknet" was brand new when she came to the attention of producer Maurice Tunick. According to David Richards of the Washington Post, Tunick had auditioned a number of potential hosts, but hadn't yet found the right one. That changed when he gave Raphael a chance to try out. Tunick gave her a one hour trial run on NBC's Washington affiliate, WRC, on Sunday in August 1981. Before going on the air, she decided that rather than doing a political show, she would give advice and discuss subjects she knew a lot about, such as relationship problems. It turned out to be an excellent decision. Even though she had never taken a psychology course, she believed she could relate to the callers as if she and they were good friend. And she was right. Soon, her advice show was being heard on over 200 radio stations, and she developed a loyal group of fans.
One of those fans turned out to be talk show legend Phil Donahue who happened to hear her show one night and liked how she related to the audience. His encouragement led to a tryout on television, where producer Burt Dubrow gave her a chance to be a guest host on a talk show of his. She wasn't very polished, but people who had loved her radio show were very positive about her being on TV. Her non-threatening and common-sense manner appealed to Dubrow, who believed she would gain more confidence as she got some TV experience. By mid-October 1983, she was given her own show on KSDK-TV in St. Louis. The "Sally Jessy Raphael Show" was only a half-hour, but it was the beginning of her successful career as a talk show host.
In 1989, Raphael won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show.
But during the 1990s, as competition in the talk show arena intensified, her show moved toward more sensationalistic topics, as did many of the other talk show hosts who were her competition, including Jerry Springer (who, at the time, was also distributed by Multimedia Entertainment) and Maury Povich. She continued to defend herself against accusations that she was doing the same trash TV as her competitors. Meanwhile, after considerable success, her ratings had begun to slip. Part of this was to be expected: there were now so many TV talk shows that the audience had become fragmented. In fact, by 2000, both Raphael and Springer were suffering similar declines. As one media critic observed, Springer's ratings were the lowest they had been in 3 years, but Raphael's ratings were now the lowest they had been in 12 years. Prior to the ratings declines, Raphael was already having problems with her syndicator: she believed that USA Networks Inc. (formerly Universal Television Enterprises) was more interested in doing promotion for Springer and Povich, whose shows they also carried, rather than paying sufficient attention to her show. She celebrated the anniversary of her 3,500th episode in early 1998, but after that, as her ratings began to decrease and her dissatisfaction with her syndicator persisted, it seemed only a matter of time before her relationship with USA Networks would come to an end. By March 2002, it was announced that after an 18-year run, her show was being canceled. Ironically, in 2002 Raphael was named by Talkers magazine to both their 25 Greatest Radio Talk Show Hosts of all time (she was #5), and the 25 Greatest Television Talk Show Hosts of all time (she was #11). She was one of only three talkers to make both the radio and the TV lists.[2]
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