Thom Hartmann

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Thomas Carl Hartmann (born May 7, 1951) is an American radio personality, author, former psychotherapist, businessman, and liberal political commentator.

Hartmann has been hosting The Thom Hartmann Program, a nationally syndicated radio show, since 2003, and has hosted The Big Picture, a nightly television show, from 2010 to September 2017. Hartmann, a founder, blogger, and humanitarian for almost three decades after being a DJ at Lansing, Michigan, country music station WITL-FM in the late 1960s.

Among other ventures, he founded International Wholesale Travel and its affiliate, Sprayberry Travel.

In New Hampshire, he also founded the Salem Children's Village, a home for abandoned and special needs children.

Hartmann has published numerous books on politics, spirituality, and psychology since 1992.

ADD: A Different Perception, his 1992 book ADD: A Different View brought the hunter vs. farmer argument of attention deficit disorder to national prominence. Hartmann's 2002 book "Talking Back To Talk Radio," became part of Air America Radio's original business plan, and he began his radio broadcasting career out of Vermont in March 2003.

In 2007, he joined Air America Network and later on to the Jones Radio Network (later Dial Global and Westwood One) in 2009.

DGital Media is his current syndicator.

Pacifica Radio and Free Speech TV also broadcast the radio show on community/non-profit stations. This week, the Thom Hartmann Program has 7 million listeners and is one of the top progressive talk radio stations in the country.

The Big Picture, Hartmann's daily TV show, premiered in 2008.

Hartmann left the show at the end of September 2017 after the RT network began carrying it in 2010, and Hartmann sadly left the show in 2010.

Early life

Hartmann was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, one of four children of Jean and Carl Thomas Hartmann. His paternal grandparents were from Norway, and Welsh and English are among his other roots. He began living in Detroit at the age of two and later moved to Lansing, Michigan. He was raised in a conservative, Midwestern household with a right-wing viewpoint of view, and was interested in politics from a young age. During the 1964 presidential election, Barry Goldwater ran for president with his tenacious Republican father, Barry Goldwater, who was thirteen. Despite being a "gifted" student, Hartmann was suspended from high school in tenth grade for starting a newspaper that opposed the Vietnam War. He later received a GED.

Hartmann studied at Lansing Community College and graduated to Michigan State University, majoring in electrical engineering. Hartmann's first venture, "The Electronics Joint" a hardware store located next to Michigan State University, opened in 1968, and he began working as a part-time disc jockey at local country music station WITL-FM. Hartmann protested the Vietnam War among Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Hartmann had been interested in consciousness and spirituality since childhood, and by 1969, his obsession shifted from hippie subculture to Christian mysticism. He met Master Stanley, the head of the Coptic Center, during the year. He was appointed as a Minister with Coptic Fellowship International in 1971. He has appeared at several Coptic Conferences around the country. Hartmann returned to Detroit to work as an engineer for RCA in 1973.

Personal life

Hartmann and Louise have three children. Hartmann has been a vegetarian since he was a kid.

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Business career

Hartmann began his career in the early 1970s, co-founding The Woodley Herber Company in his twenties. Woodley Herber sold herbal products, potpourris, and teas until 1978. Hartmann obtained three degrees in herbology and homeopathic medicine during this period. Hartmann founded The New England Salem Children's Village in Rumney, New Hampshire, which also operates in Rumney, New Hampshire. He was the company's executive director for five years and spent more than 25 years on the board of directors. The child-care model at NESCT was based on the German Salem International Organisation, and he helped start international relief efforts in Uganda, Colombia, Russia, Israel, Australia, and other nations between 1979 and 2010.

In 1983, Hartmann founded International Wholesale Travel and its retail subsidiary Sprayberry Travel in Atlanta, a company that saw over a billion-dollar turnover in the intervening years. Sprayberry Travel was lauded by the Wall Street Journal in 1984 as one of the first adopters of frequent travel services similar to the airline's new frequent flyer programs. In 1986, he sold his interest in the company and moved with his family to Germany to work with the international relief group Salem International. He worked as a mentor for The American Marketing Centers in the late 1970s and 1989, after returning from Germany, founded The Newsletter Factory, McDonald, Stout, Schneiderman & Poe Inc. In 1996, he sold his interest in the company and re-retired to Vermont, and re-retired to Vermont.

Talk radio career

Hartmann started a radio show in February 2003 on a local radio station in Vermont, a month later, it was picked up on the I.E. Sirius Satellite Radio and America Radio Network are both available on Sirius Satellite Radio. He went from Vermont to Oregon in 2005 and later co-hosted a local talk show in Portland, Oregon (with Carl Wolfson, the late Heidi Tauber, and later Christine Alexander) from 2005 to early 2007 on KPOJ, first an affiliate of Air America Radio owned by Clear Channel Communications. However, KPOJ now (March 2013) airs a sports talk show and is affiliated with Fox Sports Radio.

Hartmann's national program has been on the air since 2003 and is now on the radio from noon to 3 p.m. In 2007, Air America selected ET Dayparts to replace Al Franken on majority Air America affiliates. Hartmann was voted America's most popular liberal talk show host from 2008 to 2011, rising from number 10 among all talk show hosts to number eight in 2011 and 2015. According to Hartmann's show on more stations than on any other progressive talk show in America, more viewers watched his show on more stations than on any other progressive talk show in the United States, according to his then-syndicator Dial Global. According to industry magazine Talkers, the Thom Hartmann Program has been estimated to have 7 million unique listeners per week.

The show was broadcast on 80 terrestrial radio stations in 37 states, as well as on SiriusXM Progress channel 127. The show is also broadcast by a community radio station in Africa, Radio Builsa in Ghana. The show was simulcast by several local cable television stations. The program is now available via Pacifica Audioport to non-profit stations in a non-profit compliant manner, as well as on Dish Network channel 9415 and Direc TV channel 348 via Free Speech TV. In London, England, the service is also available.

Several guests appear on the program to discuss a variety of social and political topics. Some guests have progressive views that are similar to Hartmann's, but more than half of them are conservatives, libertarians, or Ayn Rand Institute members who espouse opposing views. "My intention in my conversations with conservatives isn't to create a spectacle and not to win the argument; not to argue that I'm the most knowledgeable guy in the room; and I can smack down people." Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) appeared on "Brunch with Bernie" for many years. Congressmen Mark Pocan (Mid-day with Mark) and Ro Khanna, both members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, are among the regular phone in visitors. Every day, Ellen Ratner of Talk Radio News Service delivers Washington insights. Victoria Jones, the White House's White House correspondent, appears on a few occasions, as does Ravi Batra, a SMU economics professor.

The Thom Hartmann Show takes calls from listeners, as with most talk radio shows. "I'm fine, but I'll get better," Hartmann answered when callers asked him how he was. But callers will still try to elicit this response after a few years, so he hasn't been back to answering this way every day. "Activity begins with you, democracy begins with you," Hartmann says at the end of each show.

Get out there, get active!

Tag, you're it!"

This review of Hartmann was provided by Michael Harrison, publisher of Radio Industry Trade magazine Talkers:

At 7 p.m., Hartmann hosted a one-hour daily television show. The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann, editorially produced by his wife's wife and broadcast from the RT America news network's Washington, D.C. studios. Many conservative guests sparred with Hartmann on the program. Hartmann co-produced the program with RT, who provided studio and carriage, while Hartmann retained complete editorial control of his production. The RT network broadcast the program on Dish Network, DirecTV, and on select local-origination and public-access television cable television television channels around the world. Hartmann, a programmer for seven years, announced his resignation as host on September 29, 2017.

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