- Martha Zoller
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Martha Zoller File:MarthaZoller4Congress.jpg
Martha for Congress campaign pictureBorn August 23, 1959
Columbus, Georgia, USAEducation University of Georgia Occupation Radio host, political commentator, author Years active 1994–present Employer Cox Communications Website marthaforcongress.com Martha Mitchell Zoller (born 1959) is a columnist, author, and state-wide syndicated radio personality on North Georgia's News-Talk station FM 103.7 WXKT which serves the Gainesville metropolitan area, Maysville, and Athens.
Martha is a candidate for the House of Representatives seat following the 2010 US Census.[1]
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Personal
Born on August 23, 1959 to Frank and Juanita Mitchell, Martha Zoller's father was a veteran of World War II in Europe and a POW escapee, while her mother worked with the Rich's company. The youngest of four children, Zoller attended Columbia High School in DeKalb County, Georgia before going on to graduate from the University of Georgia in 1979 with a degree in journalism. Martha began her talk radio career in 1994 after being a regular caller to WDUN AM 550. Her first call to the station was prompted by Hillary Clinton's lament that "she could have stayed at home and baked cookies." Martha now does a daily talk radio show, two weekly television shows and writes on issues of interest around the corner or around the world.
Broadcasting
Zoller began broadcasting in 1994 as co-host of the Mid-Day program on WDUN AM 550 in Gainesville, and today hosts the self-titled Martha Zoller Show weekdays from 10:00 am to noon.[2] The show has an un-abashed conservative focus as was made clear following the 2006 live broadcast of her show from the White House lawn when she said ""You know, what I say is, use me!".[3]
According to her website Zoller makes regular appearances on Fox 5 Atlanta's The Georgia Gang and frequent guest appearances on cable channels such as CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC,[4] on programs including TalkBack Live, Hannity & Colmes, and Larry King Live, and Zoller-penned opinion pieces have been published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Zoller was named one of Talkers magazine’s Talkers Magazine's Heavy Hundred talk shows in America in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2009,[5] and claims on her website to have been named to the 2005 Georgia Trend Magazine "Most Important Media People" list and the 2005 and 2006 James Magazine "Most Influential Georgians" lists.
In 2008, The Martha Zoller Show was syndicated statewide on The Georgia News Network.[6]
Military
In 2005, Zoller visited Baghdad, Iraq with the "Voices of Soldiers" Tour and participated in the Joint Civilian Orientation Conference (JCOC), a United States Department of Defense program for "America's leaders interested in expanding their knowledge of the military and national defense". Martha returned to Iraq in January 2007.[7]
Works
- Indivisible: Uniting Values for a Divided America (Stroud & Hall Publishers), 2005
See also
- List of radio stations in Georgia by city
References
- ^ "Elephant in the District: Miller?". Weekly Column. Beaconcast Broadcast Network LLC. 2011-07-22. http://www.beaconcastmedia.com/daily-scoop/The-Elephant-In-The-District-Miller--072211-2980. Retrieved 2011-07-22.
- ^ "WDUN Radio site". Program's web page. Jacobs Media. 2007-12-24. Archived from the original on 2007-12-28. http://web.archive.org/web/20071228221530/http://www.wdun.com/martha-06.asp#know. Retrieved 2007-12-30.
- ^ "Cheap Talk". Weekly Column. Creative Loafing Atlanta. 2006-11-01. http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/cheap_talk/Content?oid=148771. Retrieved 2007-12-30.
- ^ "appearance on MSNBC". Show transcript. MSNBC. 2005-05-17. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7886473/. Retrieved 2007-10-10.
- ^ "Talkers.com 2008 Talkers 250". Focus Communications, Inc.. 2008-02-14. http://www.talkers.com/main/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19&Itemid=44. Retrieved 2008-02-14.
- ^ "Georgia News Network". http://www.georgianewsnetwork.com/.
- ^ "Joint Civilian Orientation Conference". Program Web Page. http://jcoc.dod.mil/. Retrieved 2007-12-30.
External links
Categories:- 1959 births
- Living people
- American columnists
- American talk radio hosts
- American television personalities
- American political writers
- University of Georgia alumni
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