Phil Boyce serves as Salem Media Group’s Senior Vice President of Programming for Spoken Word formats. He has helped the company expand its national footprint in the news/talk arena since joining in 2012. The Salem Radio Network is currently home to established voices such as Mike Gallagher, Hugh Hewitt, Dennis Prager, Sebastian Gorka, and Charlie Kirk among others. Prior to joining Salem, Boyce spent 14 years as the Program Director of WABC in New York, and is widely credited with hiring Sean Hannity in New York and taking his show into national syndication for ABC in 2001. He also hired Mark Levin at WABC and took him into national syndication in 2006. Additionally, Phil spent time earlier in his career programming WJR in Detroit, hiring Paul W. Smith and Mitch Albom.