The Lia Show

The Lia Show, formerly known as "Neon Nights", is a nationally syndicated country music and entertainment radio program hosted by Lia Knight (born 1968, in rural Kentucky). The program airs nightly from 7 PM to Midnight locally across the United States. Based out of Seattle, Washington, The Lia Show is a very artist-driven program with loads of interviews from the top names in the country music industry and many from the film and television industries. The show contributes a measure of its success to its caller hotlines. Putting on caller-intensive shows allowed for it to become more emotional and real.fact|date=July 2008

The Lia Show continues to grow. Whereas in its infancy, it focused primarily on country music, the show has branched out considerably and has featured several high profile celebrity guests, such as Jenny McCarthay, Bill Engvall, UFC fighters Chuck Liddell, Forrest Griffin, and Matt Hughes, Piers Morgan, Larry the Cable Guy, Chelsea Handler, Jorge Cruz, and many more.

A self-described worrywart, Knight didn't set out for a career in radio. "I went to college to be a poet," she says. Lia has won a number of awards over the years, most recently being Best Broadcasting Personality presented at the Country Music Awards in 2008. Locally she has also been recognized for her community service with a Service Above Self Award in 2002.

In 2008, Jones Radio hired Jason Antebi as executive producer for the Lia Show, hoping he would use his extensive background in talk radio to bring more topics and guests to the show. Antebi comes from Los Angeles, where he produced some of the city's top rated shows on KFI, KLSX, KXTA and KRLA.

The program is syndicated by Jones Radio Networks, now part of Triton Media Group's Dial Global division. It is often carried by stations using the Froggy moniker, where she is known as "Leapin' Lia."

Awards

In 2008, Lia won the top honors at the Country Music Awards (Personality of the Year) and the Gracies (Entertainer of the Year). In 2007, the show was nominated for the Syndicated Personality/Show of the Year award by Radio & Records magazine. Other finalists included Delilah, Blair Garner, Steve Harvey, Kidd Kraddick, and John Tesh. cite news | first= | last= | coauthors= | title=2007 Industry Achievement Awards | date=Sept 28, 2008 | publisher= | url =http://www.radioandrecords.com/Conventions/con2007/awards/indexFinal.asp | work =Radio and Records]

ee also

*Delilah Rene, a lovesongs show that has some similarities to this program

References

External links

* [http://www.radiolia.com/ Lia's official Web site]