The Stephanie Miller Show

The Stephanie Miller Show is a syndicated progressive talk radio program that discusses politics, current events, and pop culture using a fast-paced, impromptu, comedic style.

[8][9] In 2017, Talkers Magazine ranked Miller the 23rd most important radio talk show host in America.

[10] In 2011, Miller won the Talkers Magazine Judy Jarvis Memorial Award for Outstanding Contributions to Talk Radio by a Woman.

"[12] When the show began in 2004, the on-air personalities were Stephanie Miller as host, “Voice Deity” Jim Ward as co-host, and “Boy Toy” Chris Lavoie as Executive Producer, the same team that worked with Miller on her previous radio show from 1997-2000.

[13] The show was originally dubbed Operation Take Back America,[14] and primarily consisted of Miller and Ward, with Lavoie interjecting periodically.

Associate Producer Rebekah Taylor (nee Baker), who screened phone callers, would also occasionally be heard on air.

[13] Currently sharing co-hosting duties are Chris Lavoie, and Executive Producer Jody Hamilton, serving as show engineer and occasional contributor.

Recurring guest co-hosts are Carlos Alazraqui (Wednesdays), Dana Goldberg (Thursdays), and comic duo Frangela (Fridays).

Other recurring contributors who regularly call and/or video conference into the show include Lee Papa (The Rude Pundit), the late Eric Boehlert, Charlie Pierce, Bob Cesca, Malcolm Nance, Jackie Schechner, Karl Frisch, and John Fugelsang.

In November 2005, WYD Media Management acquired Democracy Radio's portion of ownership in the show.

[31] The show is currently available Monday to Friday live from 6:00 AM to 9:00 AM Pacific Time, 9:00 AM to 12 noon Eastern Time on approximately 40 broadcast radio stations, and can also be heard online via many of these same stations, as well as the Progressive Voices website, Progressive Voices on iTunes, and TuneIn App.

Upon the advent of the COVID-19 crisis in early 2020, having the home studio left Miller and her show better prepared than most other entertainment enterprises for the stay-at-home restrictions imposed as a result of the pandemic.

However, Miller's planned 2020 Sexy Liberal Unity Tour was rescheduled after an initial show in Seattle in February 2020.

When The Stephanie Miller Show debuted in the fall of 2004, Sirius Satellite Radio's Sirius Left channel 143 began carrying the show on delay in two parts: 9:00 PM to 10:00 PM Eastern, and 3:00 AM to 5:00 AM Eastern on weekdays.

[2] A television simulcast version of the entire show is broadcast live on air each weekday on Free Speech TV.

[46] The show was simulcast on MSNBC for three days starting April 30, 2007, as part of a series of programs filling the former time slot of Don Imus.

On the first day on MSNBC, Miller visibly sweated from her armpits which she joked about in her usual self-depracating manner.

In conjunction with this inauguration, on January 18, 2009, Miller, co-host Jim Ward, and Executive Producer Chris Lavoie, participated in Obama Radio Nation, a live audience show celebrating Obama's inauguration, and the role of progressive radio in the 2008 elections.

In the past, the show also periodically broadcast from several affiliate cities, with Miller and Ward appearing in front of a live audience.

The Happy Hour features many of the sidekicks and guests who appear on Miller's radio show, as well as other celebrities and comedians, usually consuming alcohol while they chat.

Miller at an event for 92.1 FM in 2006