Ron Bennington

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Ron Bennington
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Ron Bennington (Left)
Born (1959-12-31) December 31, 1959 (age 64)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Show Bennington (radio show)
Station(s) Raw Dog Comedy on (Sirius XM channel 99)
Time slot 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM ET
Monday - Friday
Show Unmasked (radio show)
Station(s) Raw Dog Comedy
Time slot Saturday's at 8:00 - 9:00 PM ET
Style Host
Website The Interrobang

Ron Bennington (December 31, 1959) is an American radio personality and comedian, who currently is the co-host of Bennington and host of Unmasked. Additionally has been a co-host of a number of radio shows including the The Ron and Ron Show and The Ron and Fez Show.

Radio career

Ron and Ron (1987—1997)

In 1986, Bennington opened the Ron Bennington's Comedy Scene in Clearwater, Florida; he met Ron Diaz, on whose radio show he plugged his club, and quickly the two created the morning radio program The Ron and Ron Show.[1] at Tampa Bay's WYNF-FM, known as 95YNF.[2] The show had huge ratings success and Ron & Ron known as "Radio's Bad Boys" then partnered with their agent Ross Reback to form The Ron & Ron Radio Network to own and syndicate the programming.[3] The show's final broadcast for WYNF was on March 12, 1993. Reback became President and CEO of the newly formed network and quickly negotiated a deal to broadcast the show in Miami, FL, Orlando, FL, and Jacksonville, FL with another dozen markets soon following (including a new more lucrative deal in Tampa, FL). Ron Diaz announced his departure in early 1997,[3] and on September 29, 1997 the show ended.

Ron and Fez (1997—2015)

After The Ron & Ron Show ended Bennington teamed up with Fez Whatley to create The Ron and Fez Show. After stints in Daytona Beach, New York City, and Washington, D.C., the show was broadcast from New York(originally briefly called "Ron and Fez dot com" as it was devoted to discussing Web sites) on 102.7 FM WNEW-FM from 2000-2003, and syndicated to additional FM stations toward the end of the run, until the station ended the talk format, and eventually moved to 106.7 FM WJFK-FM near Washington D.C. where it aired live from 2003–2005, a station that had been simulcasting the WNEW-based show since 2000.[4] Bennington and Whatley moved back to New York and debuted on XM Satellite Radio on September 12, 2005.[5]

On April 1, 2015, Fez announced his retirement, with their final show being April 3.[6][better source needed]

Bennington (2014—Present)

In October 2014 he began co-hosting Bennington, with his daughter Gail. The show initially aired on the Opie with Jim Norton Friday 7-10am time slot when Opie and Norton were off.[7]

In April 2015, following the retirement of Fez Whatley, Bennington began airing 5 days a week, in Ron and Fez's 12-3 time slot, in addition to their Friday spot on Opie Radio.[8]

Other radio ventures

Ron Bennington Interviews is a weekend program on XM which replays different interviews every week which Ron conducts.[9] The show runs on Sirius XM Indie.[10]

In 2007, Bennington began Unmasked, a solo venture which has one-on-one interviews with comedy legends and established and emerging comedic talents.[11]

The Disciples of Comedy

In the mid-1990s Ron Bennington assembled a comedy troupe to tour to the markets where The Ron & Ron Show was syndicated. Ron Bennington's Disciples of Comedy included several comedians who had previously toured as part of Sam Kinison's Outlaws of Comedy prior to Kinison's untimely death in a 1992 car accident. The comedy tour sold out theatres of 2,000 to 3,000 seats.[12]

With Ross Reback he co-owned "Ron Bennington's Comedy Scene", a comedy club in Clearwater, Florida. One of the comics who says he "earned his chops" there is Jim Breuer.[13][14]

Appearances

Bennington is a cigar aficionado, and has also been interviewed in Cigar Magazine[15]

Bennington has a cupcake named for him at Molly's Cupcakes locations,[16] which is chocolate cupcake made with a combination of peanut butter filling, chocolate ganache, crushed butterscotch topping.[17] In 2008 it was the best-selling cupcake at Molly's.[18]

In 2015, it was revealed on the Bennington Show that an American racing Greyhound had been named after Bennington and registered as "Ron Bennington". Owned by Melissa Skrivseth-Schmidt and Christopher Straka,[19] "Ron Bennington" began her racing career at the Iowa Greyhound Park, and raced her first official race at Daytona Beach Kennel Club and Poker Room.[20]

References

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  3. Ron Diaz
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  8. Bennington Show
  9. RON BENNINGTON INTERVIEWS
  10. Indie Talk Radio-XL
  11. Announcement of the program
  12. Warren Durso, Equire Magazine’s Ugliest Comedian, as seen in movies “Cutoff” and “Even Money” with Chad Riden
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  19. http://www.greyhound-data.com/d?d=ron+bennington&sex=&color=&birthyear=&birthland=
  20. http://www.trackinfo.com/dog-search.jsp?keyword=ron+bennington&x=0&y=0&by=dogname

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