Ring of Fire (radio program)

Producer – Scott Millican Ring of Fire airs Saturdays from 3 p.m. – 6 p.m. ET. Papantonio does the show from the Pensacola studio while Seder's studio is near The New York Times Building in New York City. The program's theme song, "Ring of Fire," originally by Johnny Cash, is performed by Social Distortion. ==History==

Facility space was allocated in December 2003 and Ring of Fire aired its first broadcast on May 1, 2004, on the newly founded Air America radio network. It remained there until the network closed almost six years later. Dial Global then picked up the program and has syndicated it since. The radio program was featured in the 2006 documentary film Jesus Camp. The original cohost for Ring of Fire, along with Mike Papantonio, was Robert F. Kennedy Jr., when the show started on Air America Radio in 2004. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continued to be one of the expanding number of hosts on Ring of Fire until the COVID-19 pandemic spread around the world in 2020, when his outspoken anti-vaccine views put him at odds with the other hosts and most listeners, leading to his departure. David Bender, who hosted another Air America program, Politically Direct, first appeared on the show when Air America 2.0 was launched in May 2007. Bender returned to the program as a full-time host after the network closed down, but announced on December 11, 2010, that he was again stepping away from the program; Seder announced on The Majority Report podcast December 17, 2010, that he would be Bender's replacement. ==The Ring of Fire Network==

In 2015, the show became officially known as The Ring of Fire Network, and began focusing heavily on progressive political content. Numerous hosts now appear on the show, including Papantonio, Thom Hartmann, Abby Martin, Laura Flanders, Sam Seder, David Pakman, Lee Camp, and Mike Malloy. ==References==