To commemorate the 20th anniversary of Talkers Magazine, there’s an all-time list of the “Heaviest Hundred.” Calling him “The most important innovator in modern news/talk,” Rush Limbaugh took the top spot on the list. At #2, the talker called “the standard by which younger-demo talk is judged,” Sirius XM’s Howard Stern. Following Limbaugh and Stern to round out the top-10, in order, is Larry King, Sean Hannity, Don Imus, Arthur Godfrey (called the “pioneer of unscripted talk radio”), Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Sally Jessy Raphael, Barry Gray (called the “father of the call-in show”) and Bruce Williams. Talkers Magazine Editor & Publisher Michael Harrison tells Radio-Info, “Rush is a part of a movement that he has influenced and defines as a whole an historic genre of radio. Stern might have been #1 for the greatest shock-jocks or DJ’s or greatest entertainers.” Harrison also points out the historic value to many of the names on their list, including the contributions made by talk trailblazers Raphael, Gray, Godfrey and Williams, along with the late Alan Berg (#59), who was murdered for his opinions.