Rush Hudson Limbaugh III (, ; born January 12, 1951) is an American entertainer,
radio talk show host, writer, and conservative political commentator. Since he was 16, Limbaugh has worked a series of disc jockey jobs. His talk show began in 1984 at
Sacramento,
California radio station
KFBK, featuring his ongoing format of political commentary and listener calls. In 1988, Limbaugh began broadcasting his show nationally from radio station
WABC in
New York City, and now broadcasts from
WOR. He currently lives in
Palm Beach, Florida, where he broadcasts
The Rush Limbaugh Show. According to December 2015 estimates by
Talkers Magazine, Rush Limbaugh has a
cume (cumulative weekly audience) of around 13.25 million unique listeners (listening for at least five minutes), making it the
most listened-to talk-radio program in the USA. In the 1990s, Limbaugh's books
The Way Things Ought to Be (1992) and
See, I Told You So (1993) made
The New York Times Best Seller list. Limbaugh frequently criticizes, in his books and on his show, what he regards as
liberal policies and politicians, as well as what he perceives as a pervasive
liberal bias in major U.S. media. Limbaugh is among the highest paid people in U.S. media, signing a contract in 2008 for $400 million through 2016. In 2015,
Forbes listed his earnings at $79 million for the previous 12 months, and ranked him the 11th highest earning celebrity in the world.