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<\/p>\nThe weekday commute home may be tough, but radio\u2019s afternoon drive hosts work hard to make it easier, not to mention entertaining and informative.<\/p>\n
According to Inside Radio\u2019s TOP 10 ranking of PM drive hosts \u2013 based on weekly cume delivery of persons 6+ Mon.-Fri. 3-7pm, during Nielsen\u2019s Q3 2026 wave (Jul.-Sep. three-month average) \u2013iHeartMedia adult contemporary \u201c106.7 Lite FM\u201d WLTW New York\u2019s 20-year PM drive host Rich Kaminski places first with a 1.4 million cume. Among the air personalities in the top 10, Kaminski has the second-longest tenure in the Apple, having been on New York radio since 1996.<\/p>\n
Hosts from New York stations claim the top four spots, with those ranked second and third also boasting a cume of 1 million or more. John Foxx of Audacy classic hits WCBS-FM (101.1) comes in second, followed by iHeartMedia CHR \u201cZ100\u201d WHTZ\u2019s Crystal Rosas. Rosas\u2019 former \u201cZ100\u201d co-host, Maxwell, places fourth, heard on iHeartMedia\u2019s rhythmic CHR sister WKTU (103.5) since 2024.<\/p>\n
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Afternoon hosts on Los Angeles stations \u2014 iHeartMedia hot AC \u201c104.3 MyFM\u201d KBIG\u2019s Raphael \u201cRaph\u201d Opida, and Audacy classic hits \u201cK-Earth 101\u201d KRTH\u2019s 12-year PM driver Greg Simms \u2014 place fifth and sixth. Audacy hot AC WNEW (102.7) New York\u2019s Mike Adam, in his tenth year driving listeners home, ranks seventh, while L.A.\u2019s third host to make the cut, iHeartMedia AC KOST (103.5)\u2019s Sandy Stec, lands at eighth.<\/p>\n
More New York radio PM drive veterans rank ninth and 10th. At ninth, iHeartMedia classic rock \u201cQ104.3\u201d WAXQ\u2019s Ken Dashow \u2014 who also hosts the station\u2019s Sunday \u201cBreakfast with the Beatles\u201d \u2014 boasts the longest run of anyone in the top 10, in the driver\u2019s seat at Q since 1999 and on New York radio since 1982. Audacy all-news WINS-AM-FM (1010\/92.3)\u2019s \u201cThe PM Rush,\u201d anchored by New York State AP Award winners Larry Mullins and Lori Madden, comes in 10th. The pair have delivered the afternoon news on WINS since 2008 and 2010, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The weekday commute home may be tough, but radio\u2019s afternoon drive hosts work hard to make it easier,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-672164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}