Michael Smerconish, Philly radio guy and regular guest host for Bill-O and Glenn Beck, is getting a national syndication deal:

CBS RADIO, one of the nation’s largest major market radio operators, and Dial Global are proud to announce the syndication of “The Michael Smerconish Program.” Smerconish, currently heard weekday mornings (6:00-9:00AM, ET) on CBS RADIO’s The Big Talker WPHT-AM in Philadelphia and WHFS-AM in Washington, D.C., will launch an additional live program (12:00Noon-2:00PM) beginning on Monday, February 2. WOR News Talk Radio 710 in New York is the first affiliate to sign on to carry the two hour show and will broadcast the program from 8:00-10:00PM each weekday night.

I disagree with Smerconish on all sorts of things (starting with his opinion of Barack Obama, and also his opinion of prog-rock; in both cases I think he’s overimpressed by technical virtuosity) but he’s an interesting voice and a good thinker — a Giuliani Republican, really, liberalish on social issues and hawkish on crime and security.