Alan Nathan's Battle Line is something quite different. Every show begins with his mantra "We want the Republicans out of our bedrooms, the Democrats out of our wallets, and both out of our First and Second Amendment rights." (He additionally challenges the Libertarians.) He's been called the "centrist with teeth," who conducts a guest generated, panel driven, dialogue and debate show that moves at about 125mph. Alan insists that regardless of the issue, (political, social or cultural) one can be both substantive and spirited. Alan has been recognized by Talkers Magazine as one of the Top 100 Talk Hosts in America for 2002, 2003 and 2005 (out of 4,300 radio hosts). As an Achievement in Radio award nominated talk host and former national television correspondent, Alan has gone toe-to-toe with national leaders, columnist and extremists from all corridors of public argument. He's now completing his ninth year of syndication with Radio America.

As an eyewitness on 9-11, Alan was the first member of the media to report the attack on the Pentagon. He has been on Fox News and CNN multiple times and lectures at live events. Currently he’s a regular columnist with Front Page Magazine and is often a guest columnist in The Washington Examiner and The Washington Times. He has also been published in WorldNetDaily and Insight Magazine. Recently, excerpts from one of Alan’s columns were quoted on the floor of the House of Representatives.

Alan began as a DJ at 1480 WPWC Radio in Dumfries, VA. A year later, he started a talk show entitled “Profile and Comment With Alan Nathan.” Soon after, he created a public access television show version of “Profile and Comment” and was noticed by legendary Pulitzer Prize Winning Columnist/Reporter Jack Anderson. The now late Mr. Anderson was the Host of “The Insiders With Jack Anderson” on the Financial News Network and thought Alan would make a great addition to his reporting team. Jack’s producer, Ann Klenk (now with MSNBC’s Chris Mathews) looked at Alan’s exclusive interview with then recently arrested Washington D.C. Mayor Marian Barry and immediately agreed with Jack. Seven months later, FNN was sold following the parent company’s IRS woes and hundreds, including Alan, lost their jobs.

Alan moved onto an independent pilot for PBS called “Issues that Count” which was selected by The Central Educational Network Screening (CEN) and was accepted by multiple stations. However, the underwriting pledges were long in the delivery and Alan said good-bye to broadcasting. Five years later the bug returned and so did Alan – to radio, his first love.

In February of 1998, he began an independent centrist radio show entitled “Spanking the Left and Right” on WZHF 1390 AM in the Washington, D.C. market. Later that same year he went to Radio America and became the nationally syndicated weekend host of “Battling The Left And Right.” The show quickly grew in stations and by June of 2000, Radio America offered him the mid morning 10-12 slot Monday through Friday – the original 6-7PM Saturday show was kept and continues to this day. The program’s title was changed one last time to “Battle Line With Alan Nathan.” As a reward for audience growth, Battle Line was expanded to a third hour making it 10-1pm in January of 2004. In February of 2005 he was promoted to Radio America's drive time slot and began airing 3-6PM Monday through Friday and was re-aired overnights 1-4AM.

Wanting to commit more time to his columns, Nathan decided that effective September 4th, 2006, he would cease "Battle Line's" daily syndication but continue its long running syndicated weekend edition on Radio America.

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