35 Facts About Ed Schultz

Edward Andrew Schultz was an American television and radio host, political commentator, news anchor and sports broadcaster.

Ed Schultz was the host of The Ed Show, a weekday news talk program on MSNBC from 2009 to 2015, and The Ed Schultz Show, a talk radio show, nationally syndicated by Dial Global from 2004 to 2014.

Ed Schultz attended Larchmont Elementary School, Blair Junior High, and graduated in 1972 from Maury High School in Norfolk.

Ed Schultz moved to Minnesota to play football on a scholarship from Minnesota State University Moorhead.

Ed Schultz made All-American and became the NAIA passing leader in 1977 and signed as a free agent with the Oakland Raiders.

In 1979, Ed Schultz tried out for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League.

Ed Schultz anchored nightly sports broadcasts at WDAY-TV and starting in 1982 did radio play-by-play of North Dakota State University football games.

Management asked Schultz to take some time off after an incident in which Schultz exited the broadcast booth to look for a North Dakota State fan who threw a bottle of Southern Comfort through the booth window.

Ed Schultz, who was touted as the "Voice of the Bison" for many years at WDAY, left in 1996 and began broadcasting for KFGO in Fargo, doing play-by-play work on University of North Dakota Fighting Hawks football broadcasts beginning in 1998.

Ed Schultz left as UND play-by-play man in 2003 to focus on his national radio show.

In 1992, Ed Schultz became a conservative political talk show host on WDAY.

Ed Schultz pondered a run as a Republican for the United States House of Representatives against Democratic Representative Earl Pomeroy in 1994, but decided against it after visiting with state Republican leaders.

In 2005, Ed Schultz began a nationally syndicated radio show with a liberal-leaning perspective; the expansion was funded by the New York-based nonprofit called Democracy Radio.

The Ed Schultz Show was broadcast from the Fargo, North Dakota, studios of KFGO via the Jones Radio Networks to over 100 radio stations.

Ed Schultz's radio show moved to New York City in May 2009, a relocation brought on by his new television show at MSNBC.

Ed Schultz interviewed guests and often featured Norman Goldman as "Senior Legal Analyst" when issues of law were discussed.

On November 30,2006, Ed Schultz announced he was moving to the "prime real estate" time slot from noon to 3 pm Eastern Time, to compete directly with Rush Limbaugh, whose show is broadcast in that time slot.

At the close of 2010, Ed Schultz made The Nations Progressive Honor Roll as the Most Valuable TV Voice and was deemed the "most populist of MSNBC's hosts".

On March 9,2012, Politico reported that Ed Schultz had received nearly $200,000 in speaking fees and advertisement charges from labor unions without publicly disclosing this income, a potential conflict of interest for his television show, which is billed as a news program.

Ed Schultz argued there was no such agreement with Queen, and countersued Queen.

Ed Schultz left his nightly 8 pm ET show to host a twice-a-week MSNBC show on weekends from 5 pm to 6 pm ET, beginning April 2013.

Ed Schultz stated that he objected to the prohibition because he felt the topic of a presidential candidate announcement was relevant, but was told not to cover the announcement, and that he would be covering press conferences in Texas and Baltimore which had already been outlined, which Ed Schultz referred to as "totally meaningless".

Ed Schultz stated that he felt the reason for the termination 45 days after the Sanders announcement was because Hillary Clinton and Andrew Lack were "joined at the hip", and that MSNBC was "in the tank with Hillary Clinton", that the process was managed by executives, who did not want their primetime hosts affiliating with anyone other than Hillary Clinton.

Ed Schultz stated that after being hired as a host for RT America, that he had more creative freedom and was not dictated to with regard to editorial content, and that he was doing "real journalism" at RT, as opposed to MSNBC, which he characterized as "opinion".

Ed Schultz's platform was much more mobile and able to take his show to the streets among those people whom he supported in the labor movement.

Ed Schultz found it frustrating trying to get her the services that she needed.

Ed Schultz attributed much of his political change to her.

Ed Schultz says that was the moment he began to look at poverty differently.

Ed Schultz became a Democrat in 2000, marking the formal turn in his politics from conservative to liberal.

Ed Schultz began to hold events to raise money for people in the heartland who were going through tough times.

Ed Schultz considered running for the Democratic-NPL party nomination for governor of North Dakota against incumbent Republican John Hoeven in 2004, but decided to continue his more lucrative career in radio.

Ed Schultz subsequently declared himself a "lefty" and centered a large portion of his radio show on the "plight of working Americans".

Ed Schultz stated that he and his sons were gun owners, although he supported some gun control measures.

Ed Schultz was married twice, first to Maureen Zimmerman, in a marriage that ended in divorce, and then to Wendy Noack in 1998.

Ed Schultz died of natural causes at his home in Washington on July 5,2018, aged 64.