Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity is an American radio and television host, author, and conservative political commentator. He is the son of Hugh J. and Lillian F. Hannity. His paternal and maternal grandparents emigrated from Ireland. He has two sisters, Joanne S. Hannity and Therese (Hannity) Grisham. He grew up in Franklin Square, New York and attended Sacred Heart Seminary in Hempstead, New York during his middle school years and St. Pius X Preparatory Seminary high school in Uniondale, New York. Sean dropped out of New York University and Adelphi University to pursue his broadcasting career. Sean hosted his first talk radio show in 1989 at the volunteer college station at UC Santa Barbara, KCSB-FM, while working as a general contractor. The show aired for 40 hours of air time. Regarding his first show, Sean has said, "I wasn't good at it. I was terrible." His weekly show on KCSB was canceled after less than a year by station managers upset with his remarks about gays and lesbians. This was after two shows featuring the book The AIDS Coverup: The Real and Alarming Facts about AIDS by Gene Antonio; among other remarks, Sean told a lesbian caller "I feel sorry for your child". The station later reversed its decision to dismiss him due in part to a campaign conducted by the Santa Barbara Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. But Sean decided against returning to KCSB.
After leaving KCSB, Sean placed an ad in radio publications presenting himself as "the most talked about college radio host in America." Radio station WVNN in Athens, Alabama (part of the Huntsville market) then hired him to be the afternoon talk show host. From Huntsville, he moved to WGST in Atlanta in 1992, filling the slot vacated by Neal Boortz, who had moved to competing station WSB. In September 1996 Fox News co-founder Roger Ailes hired Sean -- then a relatively unknown -- to host a television program under the working title Hannity and LTBD ("liberal to be determined"). Alan Colmes was then hired to co-host and the show debuted as Hannity & Colmes.
Later that year Sean left WGST for New York, where WABC had him substitute for their afternoon drive time host during Christmas week. In January 1997, WABC put Hannity on the air full-time, giving him the late night time slot. WABC then moved Hannity to the same drive time slot he had filled temporarily a little more than a year earlier. Hannity has been on WABC's afternoon time slot since January 1998.
In January 2007, Sean began a new Sunday night television show on Fox News, Hannity's America.
In November 2008, Colmes announced his departure from Hannity & Colmes. After the show's final broadcast on January 9, 2009, Sean took over the time slot with his own new show, Hannity, which has a format similar to Hannity's America.
Sean is the author of three books. The first two, Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty over Liberalism and Deliver Us from Evil: DefeatingTerrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism, were published through ReganBooks. Both of these books reached the nonfiction New York Times bestseller list, the second of which stayed there for five weeks. Sean has stated that he is too busy to write many books, and dictated a lot of his own two books into a tape recorder while driving in to do his radio show.
He wrote his third book, Conservative Victory: Defeating Obama’s Radical Agenda, which was released by HarperCollins on March 30, 2010. The book became Hannity's third New York Times Bestseller.
Sean married his wife, Jill, on January 9, 1993. She is the daughter of an Airforce officer and met Sean because of her work as a reporter for a local paper. Sean and Jill have two children.
To be conservative is not the same as know Jesus Christ, personally. Attending any specific church doesn't guarantee any of us an entrance into Heaven. Please pray for Sean, this week, that he will understand the truth of what the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ means and embrace a personal relationship with Him forever.