Phil Boyce — Senior Vice President of Salem Radio Network and Spoken Word Formats at Salem Media Group

Mr. Phil Boyce has been Senior Vice President of Salem Radio Network & Spoken Word Formats at Salem Communications Corp. since November 2014. Mr. Boyce served as Vice President and Director of Spoken Word Format of Salem Communications Corp. from February 03, 2012 to November 2014. Mr. Boyce joined Salem after three years as President of Programming at Talk Radio Network. He is known for his 14-year stint as Program Director of WABC in New York. During his time there, He was named Vice President of News Talk Programming for ABC Radio and later Citadel. He is widely credited with hiring Sean Hannity in New York and taking his show into national syndication for ABC in 2001. Later he hired Mark Levin at WABC and took him into national syndication in 2006. He left WABC in October of 2008 shortly after WABC hit a 5 share 12+ in New York (Arbitron PPM Sept. 2008), the highest share the station has achieved since going talk from rock in 1982. Before joining WABC, he programmed WJR in Detroit where he hired morning man Paul W. Smith, and afternoon host Mitch Albom who are both still mainstays of the station, along with Hannity and Levin. He has been awarded PD of the Year by R & R magazine, and was named one of the top 10 PD's of the year 10 straight years in Radio Ink.