Business, Culture and Media 2023

What’s the best Birthday gift you’ve ever received? For Paul Gallo it was the gift of radio. Gallo began his first job in radio on his birthday, February 12 th , 1968, and it has become a career spanning over five decades comprised of every facet of the industry from DJ to Program Director, sales, and management, to ownership.

The name Paul Gallo is known across the state of Mississippi and his weekday political program The Gallo Radio Show is how several hundred thousand listeners stay in the know with the latest happenings in the Magnolia state.
In January of 1990, Gallo accepted a job offer from Steve Davenport to join the SuperTalk Mississippi Media family. A few years later, the dream of putting together a statewide talk network became a reality, and The Gallo Radio Show was born. During the first years of the Gallo Radio Show when there were very few political talk shows, Gallo blended a music format with news, analysis, and opinion.

Over the years, the SuperTalk Network has grown from one flagship station to a powerful network of hometown stations across Mississippi. Now in the digital age, The Gallo Show is not only heard statewide but is also broadcast around the world and simulcast on SuperTalk TV and Channel 70 of the CSpire TV platform. The Show’s political impact is legendary for taking on some of the toughest issues. One such issue was the heated campaign for U.S. Senate between Roger Wicker and Ronnie Musgrove in November of 2008. The campaign reached a fever pitch both in Mississippi and nationally due to political power being at stake in an evenly divided Senate. So much so, that the White House called and booked two interviews on The Gallo Radio Show with the then Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney.

Over the decades the guest list has numbered in the thousands with names that include top newsmakers from politics to entertainment and beyond. Now, in 2023, with Mississippi in a far different place than when his first show aired on Feb. 12th, 1968, Paul Gallo continues his morning radio tradition with a new set of state and national issues and guests all blended with the same quality of information and entertainment for his audience family that keeps moving Mississippi forward.