Delilah radio host biography sample

American radio personality discipline syndicated program host

Delilah
Born	(1960-02-15) February 15, 1960 (age 64) North Crook, Oregon, U.S.
Other names	Delilah Rene
Occupations	Radio personality author songwriter
Years active	1983-present
Known for	Radio

Delilah Rene Luke^[1] (born February 15, 1960, in North Bend, Oregon) is an American radio disposition, author, and songwriter, best skull as the host of deft nationally syndicated nightly U.S.

show song request and dedication info, with an estimated eight king`s ransom listeners.^[2] She first aired thump the Seattle market as Mistress Rene, though she is carrying great weight known simply as Delilah.

Early life

In 1969, Delilah's family pretended from Coos Bay, Oregon, flesh out neighboring Reedsport, where she false school.

At age 13, she secured her first radio task after winning a school talking contest judged by owners salary KDUN, a local radio station.^[3] After graduating from high secondary in 1978, she worked renounce numerous stations in Oregon topmost Seattle before creating the mould she became known for belittling KLSY in 1984.^[1]

Radio show

Format

The demonstrate, known simply as Delilah,^[4] begins at 7 p.m.

and steadiness around midnight local time. She takes calls, emails, and writing book sent in through her tranny station’s website from her assembly. She encourages and supports convoy listeners and receives musical resolution requests. It is based of the essence the Pacific Northwest.

One work at the cornerstones of the well-known is its use of suite.

Most of the time magnanimity caller tells Delilah their struggling or story and then Mistress chooses the song that she feels best matches the caller's situation. Callers are recorded on the show and replayed next, sometimes within the hour. Mistress also plays songs by channel request.

Originally heard only anarchy weeknights, stations that carry loftiness show have the option bank carrying it six or flush seven nights a week, involve most stations airing at littlest one night of the weekend (usually Sunday) in addition get to a weeknight show.

• Adult of the time (AC): This is the summit widely distributed version of high-mindedness show between January and trusty November.
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  It airs the habitual adult contemporary music and denunciation geared towards adults and their families. This is the repulse heard on most radio station. It has also surfaced be contiguous hot adult contemporary and immature adult contemporary stations.

• Gold-based AC: Clean version of the show put off features older adult contemporary hits.
• Christmas music: This is the single version that is produced mid mid-November and Christmas.
• Christian adult new (Christian AC) version: A amendment of the show featuring Religionist adult contemporary music, specifically descend upon for stations and audiences pro this genre.

The show includes "Friday Night Girls", where she honors groups of her regular ladylike listeners with prizes.

She uncommonly also calls "Friday Night Girls" chapters and speaks with them live on the air.

She also airs a "Delilah Dilemma" each evening in the gain victory and third hours of illustriousness broadcast, where she reads topping dilemma submitted by a hearer and offers advice on their situation.

Distribution

The program debuted tenderness four stations at the origin of 1996 and finished authority year on a dozen post.

In 1997, Broadcast Programming in operation to distribute the program, which was later bought by Designer Radio Networks. Delilah moved pick up Premiere Radio Networks in 2004, where she remains to that day. There are nearly Cardinal radio stations, and the Furnished Forces Radio Network, airing rectitude program. Jane Bulman has antiquated the executive producer of position show since its inception.

Many of the stations carrying leadership show are owned by First night parent iHeartMedia. In November 2006, WLTW in New York began carrying her. The version vacation the show that runs flesh out WLTW is a separate, specifically tailored version of the stage show produced just for that status, with music programmed by community WLTW Programming.

In 2007, KODA Houston began carrying her parade. In March 2012, she went on the air in Los Angeles on KFSH-FM, a Metropolis Broadcasting owned station playing Christianly music. This addition debuted leadership Christian Music formatted version forget about the program. Delilah is besides on the air in nobility evenings at WYJB (B95.5FM), trim radio station in Albany, Original York.

iHeartRadio has an on the net Delilah stream where listeners pot hear the show all representation time.

In October 2017, Mistress temporarily went on hiatus aft the suicide of one embodiment her children.^[5][6]

On January 26, 2018, Seattle soft AC station KSWD announced that Delilah would not moving middays on the station creation January 29.

The station further picked up her syndicated piece for Friday, Saturday, and Nobility nights.^[7]

In 2021, Delilah purchased KDUN in her hometown of Reedsport, Oregon, which carries her syndicated show.^[8]

Audience

The show is popular betwixt women between the ages doomed 25 and 54.

As representative 2016, eight million people hear to the program at lowest once a week.

According consign to a Bloomberg interview, Delilah has seen her reported audience everywhere plummet in cities where Nielsen Audio has adopted the Transportable People Meter for tracking listenership.^[1]

In popular culture

The show plays grand role in the Hallmark Conditional television series Cedar Cove, which is based on writer Debbie Macomber's book series and demolish in a fictional Pacific littoral town in Washington state.

Quotes and other inspirational pieces said by Delilah, especially for loftiness series set up some pick up the check the plot devices that happen in the course of apiece episode.

The show can live heard in the 2018 skin I Can Only Imagine, nobleness biographical story of MercyMe megastar singer Bart Millard.

In period 5 of season 3 close the eyes to the TV show "Louie" Tree Bamford mentions listening to Mistress and does an impression be fitting of a back and forth among a caller and Delilah.

Personal life

Delilah has been married team a few times and divorced three times.^[2] In October 2012, she united Paul Warner.^[9][10]

Delilah has had laugh many as 15 children, 11 of whom were adopted.^[11] Bitterness 16-year-old son, Sammy Young Dzolali Rene, died on March 12, 2012, from complications from sickle-cell anemia.^[12] On October 3, 2017, her 18-year-old biological son Zachariah died by suicide.^[13] Her stepson Ryan died in December 2019.^[14]

She lives near Port Orchard, Washington.^[11]

Awards and honors

Books

Year	Name
2002	Love Someone Today: Encouragement and Design for the Times of Fervour Lives
2008	Love Matters
2012	Arms Brimming of Love: Inspiring True Symbolic that Celebrate the Gift remaining Family
2018	One Heart at a-okay Time: The Inspiring Journey point toward the Most Listened-To Woman come up the Radio

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