Hugh Hewitt moves
to new time

“The Hugh Hewitt Show” has moved its live broadcast to 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. on the West Coast and 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on the East Coast — picking up new major markets along the way.

The change allows the popular talk radio show and WorldNetDaily columnist to enter a variety of key markets, including Boston, Chicago, New York, Pittsburgh and San Francisco. Other markets, like Sacramento, become live broadcast markets.

All of the show’s current stations have agreed to make the switch, and some new affiliates will also be added in the next few weeks. In short, the time change allows the show’s audience to expand dramatically.

“The show will also change from a program that reports the morning headlines to one that, like the network evening news programs, summarizes and interprets the day’s events,” said Hewitt. “The news cycle concludes in these hours, and I relish the chance to honestly report and fairly analyze the day’s events.”

He added: “The change will be an inconvenience to some, but I hope my listeners will be able to alter their listening habits. Most of my guests will stay in the regular line-up, though their monthly or weekly times will change. October will be largely devoted to news of the coming combat, but thereafter I will be re-introducing the regulars to the program’s line-up.”

The show is the fastest-growing talk radio show in the nation — heard on nearly 50 radio stations since debuting in June 2000. He also co-hosts the weeknight television news and public affairs show “Life & Times Tonight” on PBS Los Angeles affiliate KCET-TV. “Life & Times,” which has begun its eighth season, airs at 7 p.m. Monday through Friday, immediately after “The News Hour with Jim Lehrer,” and has received numerous awards for its coverage of issues relating to politics and economics in the West. Hewitt has received three Emmys for the work on “Life & Times.”

Hewitt was also the host of the PBS series “Searching For God In America,” an eight-part show that premiered on PBS in July 1996.

In addition to the companion book to “Searching,” which received the 1997 Gold Medallion Book Award of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association in the category of “Christianity and Society,” Hewitt has authored “The Embarrassed Believer: Resurrecting Christian Witness in the Age of Mockery,” published in May 1998 by Word, and “First Principles” published in 1985.

Hewitt divides his time between broadcast journalism, writing and the law. He appears frequently as a political and social commentator on television news shows including Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” ABC’s “Politically Incorrect,” ABC’s “Nightline,” NBC’s “The Today Show” and CNN’s “Larry King Live.”

The Hugh Hewitt Show is syndicated by Salem Radio Networks.