Axios’s Tal Axelrod delivered a welcome scoop Wednesday that, beginning in 2026, Breitbart editor-in-chief Alex Marlow and CNN senior political commentator (and 2025 MRC Bulldog Award winner) Scott Jennings would occupy the three hours of radio beforehand stuffed by the late Charlie Kirk on the Salem Radio Community, marking a step up for the pair from their earlier roles inside Salem.
Launching January 5, Axelrod defined Marlow and Jennings would break up the midday to three:00 p.m. Japanese Kirk held till his September 10 homicide with Marlow internet hosting from midday to 1:00 p.m. Japanese and Jennings taking the remaining two hours.
In Jennings’s case, this marked an growth of The Scott Jennings Radio Present that started on July 14 as a one-hour program at 2:00 p.m. Japanese that each this author and Media Analysis Heart President David Bozell have made visitor appearances.
Axelrod acknowledged for the nice of the order the slot was “as soon as commanded by Rush Limbaugh” and thus “a staple of conservative speak radio.” In Salem’s case, they are going to be heard on “over 300 radio stations…serving over 1.2 million listeners every week” with “greater than one million” listening on-demand.
As for the way forward for The Charlie Kirk Present, Turning Level USA senior leaders, present producers, and longtime Kirk aides Andrew Klovet and Blake Neff will hold the present alive “as a podcast on the Salem Podcast Community.”
To be clear as properly, Klovet emphasised TPUSA’s “friendship and belief in Salem [will] not” change although “how we wish to distribute the present will change” and wholeheartedly endorses Jennings and Marlow as “the proper hosts to take over on the radio portion.”
Reacting to the announcement, Jennings informed Axelrod that thanks have been to ensure that “Kolvet and the Turning Level USA group” for having proven such cautious “stewardship of Charlie’s radio legacy.”
On X, Marlow tweeted partly: “The phrase “honor” is thrown round quite a bit, but it surely really is an honor to get to broadcast in a time slot as soon as held by my hero Dennis Prager and my buddy Charlie Kirk, an American icon. I am additionally grateful to have the blessing of [Andrew Kolvet] of Turning Level. The Charlie Kirk Present — a vitally essential podcast — lives on because of him.”
