66 Facts About Laura Schlessinger

Laura Catherine Schlessinger was born on January 16,1947 and is an American talk radio host and author.

The Dr Laura Program, heard weekdays for three hours on Sirius XM Radio, consists mainly of her responses to callers' requests for personal advice and often features her short monologues on social and political topics.

Schlessinger used to combine her local radio career in Los Angeles with a private practice as a marriage and family counselor, but after going into national radio syndication, she concentrated her efforts on The Dr Laura Program heard each weekday, and on writing self-help books.

Laura Schlessinger's show moved to the Sirius XM Stars satellite radio channel on January 3,2011.

Laura Schlessinger announced a "multiyear" deal to be on satellite radio.

Laura Schlessinger was born in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

Laura Schlessinger was raised in Brooklyn and later on Long Island.

Laura Schlessinger's parents were Monroe "Monty" Schlessinger, a Jewish American civil engineer, and Yolanda Schlessinger, a Catholic war bride from Italy.

Laura Schlessinger has said her father was charming and her mother beautiful as a young woman.

Laura Schlessinger has a sister, Cindy, who is 11 years her junior.

Laura Schlessinger has described her childhood environment as unloving and unpleasant, and her family as dysfunctional.

Laura Schlessinger has ascribed some of the difficulty to extended family rejection of her parents' mixed faith Jewish-Catholic marriage.

Laura Schlessinger said her father was "petty, insensitive, mean, thoughtless, demeaning, and downright unloving".

Laura Schlessinger credited her father with giving her the drive to succeed.

Laura Schlessinger attended Westbury High School and Jericho High School, where she showed an interest in science.

Laura Schlessinger received a bachelor's degree from Stony Brook University.

Laura Schlessinger began broadcasting a daily show on KFI, which was nationally syndicated in 1994 by Synergy, a company owned by Laura Schlessinger and her husband.

Later, Jacor merged with Clear Channel Communications and a company co-owned by Laura Schlessinger, Take on the Day, LLC, acquired the production rights.

At its peak, The Dr Laura Schlessinger Program was the second-highest-rated radio show after The Rush Limbaugh Show, and was heard on more than 450 radio stations.

Laura Schlessinger's fervor is indisputably evangelical, and her listeners believe her to be a paragon, a beacon of hope and rectitude in a dissolute, degraded world.

In 2006, Laura Schlessinger's show was being aired on about 200 stations.

Laura Schlessinger used "Hot Talkin' Big Shot", a song by country and blues singer and songwriter Nikki Hornsby, for several years as cue music for her radio program and for a national radio commercial advertising for the show.

On January 3,2011, Laura Schlessinger's show moved exclusively to Sirius XM Radio.

Laura Schlessinger currently offers a short podcast of the "Call of the Day" from her SiriusXM daily show, and it is ranked in the top 25 "Kids and Family" podcasts on iTunes.

On Yom Kippur in 2000, Dr Laura Schlessinger said she "deeply [regretted] the hurt this situation has caused the gay and lesbian community" and asked for forgiveness, while abstaining from offering a retraction of her words.

Dr Laura Schlessinger aired its last first-run episode on March 30,2001, on the stations that continued to air it, with reruns continuing until September 2001.

In 2004, Laura Schlessinger said that although the money and celebrity in television is greater, it is not as meaningful or intimate as radio, and for her, television was a "terrible experience".

For several years, Laura Schlessinger wrote a weekly column syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate that was carried in many newspapers, and in Jewish World Review.

Laura Schlessinger discontinued the column in July 2000, citing lack of time due to her upcoming television show.

Laura Schlessinger wrote a monthly column for WorldNetDaily between 2002 and 2004, with one entry in 2006.

In 2006, Laura Schlessinger joined the Santa Barbara News-Press, writing biweekly columns dealing with Santa Barbara news, as well as general news and cultural issues discussed on her radio show.

Laura Schlessinger suspended the column in mid-2007, resumed writing it later, then discontinued it in December 2008.

Laura Schlessinger currently writes columns on her blog, on a variety of topics.

Laura Schlessinger has written 13 books for adults and four for children.

Laura Schlessinger was the editor, her husband a contributing photographer, and her son the creative consultant.

Laura Schlessinger has a website that contains hints for stay-at-home parents, her blog, a reading list, and streaming audio of her shows.

Laura Schlessinger regularly asked her on-air audience to donate items for My Stuff bags, which go to children in need.

In September 2004, Laura Schlessinger announced that she was closing down the foundation because it had become too difficult and costly for her husband and her to underwrite, and they wished to devote their "energies and resources to other pressing needs".

In 2007, Laura Schlessinger began fundraising for Operation Family Fund, an organization that aids the families of fallen or seriously injured veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

In 2017, Dr Laura Schlessinger began donating proceeds from the sale of jewelry and glass art she designs and hand makes to Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation, a charitable organization that provides college scholarships to military children who lost a parent in the line of duty.

Laura Schlessinger received a National Heritage award from the National Council of Young Israel in March 2001.

Laura Schlessinger received the National Religious Broadcasters Chairman's Award, and has lectured on the national conservative circuit.

Laura Schlessinger was the commencement speaker at Hillsdale College in June 2002, and was awarded an honorary degree as a doctor of tradition and culture.

In 2007, Laura Schlessinger was given an Exceptional Public Service award by the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

Laura Schlessinger was not religious until she started to practice Conservative Judaism in 1996.

Laura Schlessinger occasionally clarified ethical and moral issues with her local Orthodox Rabbi Moshe D Bryski, before mentioning them on the air.

Laura Schlessinger was embraced by many in the politically conservative segment of Orthodox Judaism for bringing more awareness of Orthodoxy to her radio show.

In July 2003, Laura Schlessinger announced on her show that she was no longer an Orthodox Jew, but that she was still Jewish.

Laura Schlessinger has vociferously proclaimed her disapproval of unwed couples "shacking up" and having children out of wedlock.

Laura Schlessinger's husband died November 2,2015, after being ill for 1.5 years.

Laura Schlessinger was estranged from her sister for years, and many thought she was an only child.

Laura Schlessinger had not spoken to her mother for 18 to 20 years before her mother's death in 2002 from heart disease.

Laura Schlessinger's mother's remains were found in her Beverly Hills condo about two months after she died, and lay unclaimed for some time in the Los Angeles morgue before Schlessinger had them picked up for burial.

Laura Schlessinger said that she had not mourned the deaths of either of her parents because she had no emotional bond to them.

In 1998, Laura Schlessinger was in a Costa Mesa surf shop with her son when she began perusing the skateboarding magazine Big Brother.

On her radio program, Laura Schlessinger declared the magazine to be "stealth pornography".

The photos were taken in the mid-1970s, while Laura Schlessinger was involved in a brief affair with the then-married Ballance.

Laura Schlessinger sued after the photos were posted on the internet, claiming invasion of privacy and copyright violation.

The court ruled that Laura Schlessinger did not own the rights to the photos.

Laura Schlessinger first replied that "some people are hypersensitive" and asked for some examples from the caller.

Laura Schlessinger discussed the word and its use by blacks and in black media.

Laura Schlessinger announced in August 2010 that, while not retiring from radio, she would end her radio show at the end of 2010:.

Laura Schlessinger's program is available as a podcast at iTunes and from her own website.

In 1999, Laura Schlessinger was parodied as Dr Nora on the sitcom Frasier.

In 2001, Laura Schlessinger was portrayed on the claymation show Celebrity Deathmatch on the episode, "A Night of Vomit".

Laura Schlessinger was in a fight with Ellen DeGeneres; she lost.