Aaron Harber

Aaron Harber is an American long-form nonpartisan TV talk show host featured on RMPBS Channel 3 Colorado, Comcast Entertainment Television, and KPXC-TV (Ion Media Networks), as well as on individual stations (such as TV Aspen). Harber often writes columns for The Colorado Statesman, The Denver Daily News and the Huffington Post, and has served as an on-air, political analyst for the Denver CBS affiliate, CBS4 (KCNC-TV), the CW2 Network, Tribune Broadcasting (KWGN-TV Channel 2), and KBDI-TV Channel 12.

Media Since 1992, Aaron Harber has worked extensively in the media as a host, producer, political and economic commentator, and columnist. The Aaron Harber Show is the focus of his media involvement. In addition to this program, Harber has also hosted several other public affairs programs, including The Senate in Balance, Denver 2008: The 2008 Denver Democratic National Convention Series, The Energy Roundtable, the Truth in Political Advertising Project, and the Colorado Election 2010 election series.

Harber gained national recognition when he was sued frivolously for $20 million by Rush Limbaugh et al., for using the word "Rush" in the title of his national radio program. With broad-based support across the political spectrum, Harber prevailed in the federal court case.

In 1997, the talk industry's leading publication Talkers Magazine selected Harber out of 5,000 hosts across the country as one of America's "100 Most Important Talk Show Hosts" (along with others such as Don Imus, G. Gordon Liddy, Rush Limbaugh, Dr. Laura Schlesinger, Howard Stern, and Bruce Williams).

In 1998, Harber moved from the Talk America Radio Network (where he was heard on 51 radio stations across the country) exclusively into the television arena.

In 2000, he hosted the historic nonpartisan campaign series Election 2000, which was broadcast on over-the-air television (Colorado Public Television KBDI-TV 12) as well as on the internet, thanks to funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and a partnership with The Denver Post.

Harber's programs are now carried by a variety of channels, stations, and networks, from commercial stations such as Comcast Entertainment Television and KPXC-TV (part of ION Media Networks) to public television stations and cable TV channels, as well as cable channels such as TV Aspen. In January 2010, Harber started a new local election series, Colorado Election 2010. It showcased candidates in Colorado's 2010 election season in a non-partisan setting.

In January 2008, Harber served as the executive producer of a new series, The Senate in Balance, primarily designed as a public platform for incumbent Congressman Mark Udall (D) and former Colorado Congressman Bob Schaffer (R). Harber produced and hosted a seven-episode series documenting the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

From 1998 through 2008, Harber was an on-camera political analyst for CW2 of the CW Network (previously Tribune Broadcasting station KWGN and WB2, part of the Warner Brothers Network) in Denver and across Colorado. During the 2008 Democratic National Convention, Harber, representing KBDI-TV Channel 12, partnered with CBS4 (KCNC Channel 4) to provide two and a half hours of live, nightly coverage and analysis of the convention.

Harber writes on public affairs and economic issues for The Huffington Post.

Political activities and affiliations Harber was elected secretary of the Colorado Democratic Party in 1983. He was elected as a Presidential Delegate to the 1984 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco and was also elected to the Convention's original Credentials Committee. In addition to his 1984 delegate win, he was elected as a Presidential Delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in Chicago (1996) and Los Angeles (2000).

A staunch supporter of the concept of public disclosure, "sunshine" laws, and Open Records Acts, Harber fought a precedent-setting battle against the State of Colorado in 1982 in which the Secretary of State ultimately was required to release public information in its most usable form (i.e. electronic).

A decade later, in 1993, he won a case against another government entity (NCWCD, the Northern Colorado Water Conservatory District) which had tried to use the law and the cost of litigation to hide important public information. In 1994, at the request of the Sierra Club, he agreed to intervene in a case against the NCWCD filed by the Sierra Club by formally supporting the Club's position in a joint filing.

Harber is known for his fairness and the equal access he has provided to all his guests on his radio and TV shows. Such as his broadcasts from the 1996 Republican National Convention. He has broadcast his show live from the Democratic Leadership Council, the White House Press Room, and the conservative Heritage Foundation.

Harber served as chairman of Centre Entertainment, Inc., a video production, film production and distribution company (A Norman Rockwell Christmas Story and Legend of the Spirit Dog; the latter was the first dramatic, live-action feature film made by Discovery Communications). Harber served as president of Wild Horse Productions, Inc., a company originally formed to develop the feature film Wild Horses for Animal Planet and Discovery Communications, for which a complete script received funding and final approval.