There’s a version of this story where a Seattle-area radio host stays in Seattle. Jason Rantz isn’t living that version. The Seattle Red 770 host has quietly built one of the more remarkable cable news footprints in local radio, logging more than 1,000 appearances on Fox News since 2019 and showing up regularly on CNN, NewsNation, and Fox Business.
He doesn’t treat the television circuit as a distraction from his day job. Instead, he treats it as an extension of it — and the numbers bear that out.
The hustle isn’t incidental. Rantz actively courts the chaos that comes with constant travel, rapid-fire topic changes, and stepping into debates with people he’s never met hours before airtime. Yet, he says none of it feels like a grind…