Phil Valentine


Philip Carr "Phil" Valentine is an American conservative talk radio show host in Nashville, Tennessee. He broadcasts daily on flagship station WWTN, a Cumulus Media station, from 3:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. Central Time He is known in Tennessee for leading protests against a proposed state income tax.

Personal life

Valentine is the son of former six-term Democratic U.S. Representative Tim Valentine of North Carolina, but is nonetheless a self-described conservative. His mother is Betsy Valentine, who was killed in an auto accident when he was 21. Valentine grew up in Nashville, North Carolina and graduated from Northern Nash High School. After attending East Carolina University, he entered a career in radio. ECU did not offer a broadcast major, so Valentine enrolled in the Connecticut School of Broadcasting branch campus in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Books

Valentine is the author of three books, The Conservative's Handbook: Defining the Right Position on Issues from A to Z , Right from the Heart: The ABC's of Reality in America, and Tax Revolt: The Rebellion Against an Overbearing, Bloated, Arrogant, and Abusive Government. Valentine was active as a community organizer to stop the passage of a proposed Tennessee state income tax. His book, The Conservative's Handbook, is a revision of Right from the Heart and the foreword for both books was written by Sean Hannity.

Film and television

In August 2009 Valentine launched production of his documentary, An Inconsistent Truth, a rebuttal to Al Gore's movie, An Inconvenient Truth. His movie was premiered on January 26, 2012, and opened on January 27, 2012. For the first two weeks after the release, Truth was the top-grossing movie per screen in the country. At the time, it was playing at a single movie theater and earned a total of $36,439 for those two weeks. It picked up second place at the Appalachian Film Festival in Huntington, West Virginia, in February 2012. The movie also won the Excellence in Filmmaking award at the Anthem Film Festival and won Best Documentary at the Nevada Film Festival in Las Vegas.
In 2015, Valentine landed a role opposite Kevin Sorbo in the movie The Secret Handshake. Valentine's other movie credits include a supporting role in the 1998 movie A Letter From Death Row, written and co-directed by Bret Michaels of the rock group Poison. He had a cameo role in the 2014 film Atlas Shrugged: Who is John Galt?. He was also the voice of a radio talk show host in a 2003 episode of ABC's Threat Matrix television drama. Valentine has made numerous appearances on Fox News Channel and MSNBC.

Awards and honors

In 2015, Valentine won first place in the Colorado Film Festival and was a finalist in 10 other film festivals including The Beverly Hills Film Festival, The American Movie Awards, and The Atlanta Film Festival for his screenplay "Derek Dickens & The Dream."
Valentine has received numerous AIR Awards in Philadelphia and Nashville and the Gold World Medal for Best Talk Show Host from the New York Festivals International Radio Awards.
Valentine is often listed in the Talkers Magazine "Heavy Hundred" as one of the 100 most influential talk show hosts in America and is listed by Talkers as one of the 100 most influential talk show hosts of all time. For 2015, he is ranked #32 on the Heavy Hundred list.