Delilah, Rickey, Tom & Kristi To Host Marconi’s
In honor of the 30th anniversary of the NAB Marconi Radio Awards, this year’s celebration will feature the talents of previous Marconi winners — nationally syndicated personalities Delilah, Rickey Smiley and Tom Griswold and Kristi Lee of The Bob and Tom Show. Together they will serve as emcees and presenters throughout the 2019 NAB Marconi Radio Awards, which are scheduled for Thursday, September 26 at the 2019 Radio Show in Dallas.
Delilah (left) is the most-listened-to-woman on radio in America with more than eight million weekly listeners across 160 affiliates. She was inducted into the NAB Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 2017 and received the NAB Marconi Radio Award for Network/Syndicated Personality of the Year in 2016. Delilah is also the author of four books, the founder of the non-profit Point Hope and the mother of 14 children — 11 of whom she adopted.
Rickey Smiley (second from left) received the NAB Marconi Radio Award for Network/Syndicated Personality of the Year in 2017. Every morning, millions of Americans in nearly 60 cities tune in to The Rickey Smiley Morning Show. It was recently announced that Smiley would succeed the legendary Tom Joynerfollowing Joyner’s late 2019 retirement from The Tom Joyner Morning Show with the debut of a new Urban morning show launching in January 2020.
Tom Griswold (second from right) and former cohost Bob Kevoian launched The Bob & Tom Show in 1983. Kristi Lee (right) joined the show as News Director a year later. The five-time NAB Marconi Radio Award-winning show began national syndication in 1995 from its flagship station WFBQ/Indianapolis and is now heard on more than 100 radio affiliates nationwide. The Bob & Tom Show is heading into its 25th year of syndication and will broadcast live each day from this year’s Radio Show.
Established in 1989 and named after inventor and Nobel Prize winner Guglielmo Marconi, the NAB Marconi Radio Awards are given to radio stations and outstanding on-air personalities to recognize excellence in radio.
