Biography
Dennis Prager is a radio host on the Salem Radio Network and a co-founder of PragerU.
Radio
Salem’s own announcement of March 2025 records that Prager had joined the network twenty-five years earlier. In November 2024 he suffered a serious spinal cord injury in a fall at home and entered extended rehabilitation. Charlie Kirk took his weekday slot from 31 March 2025, with Jack Posobiec covering the third hour during the absence, and Prager returned on 3 June 2025 to a single hour from 2 to 3 p.m. Eastern — down from three — keeping his long-running “Happiness Hour” and “Male Female Hour” segments. Kirk was killed on September 10, 2025; what, if anything, changed about the weekday slot afterward is not established by sources consulted for this page.
PragerU
PragerU operates as the Prager University Foundation, a 501(c)(3) based in Sherman Oaks, California, with an IRS ruling date of August 2010. It describes its mission as promoting “American values through the creative use of digital media, technology and edu-tainment”, and its output as five-minute videos, documentaries, children’s programming and streaming content.
Its finances are substantial and almost entirely donative: total revenue of 65.5 million in 2022 and $68.7 million in 2023. Its own claims about reach — over 13 billion lifetime views and 5.5 million daily video views as stated in September 2026 — are self-reported and recorded here as such.
Digital Political Impact
- Prager anchors a pairing of a syndicated radio programme and a separately-incorporated video nonprofit sharing a name and a principal
- PragerU’s revenue was $68.7 million in 2023, nearly all of it from contributions rather than programme income
- Kirk held the 2025 timeslot handed to him by Prager for a little over five months before his death on September 10, 2025
What Is Not Established Here
Removed in the citation audit: his birth year; the “6+ billion total video views; 3+ million YouTube subscribers” figures, replaced by PragerU’s current self-reported claims, attributed; and the founding year for PragerU, which no first-party record consulted supports — the IRS ruling date is August 2010, not the 2009 previously asserted across this site’s pages. His career before Salem, and his books and columns, are not covered because nothing sourced in this pass supports them.
Sources
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Salem Media Group, Inc.. Salem Media Announces Charlie Kirk Moving into Dennis Prager Slot. (2025). Press release of 19 March 2025. Source for Prager having joined the Salem Radio Network 25 years earlier; for his serious spinal cord injury in November 2024 after a fall at home and his subsequent rehabilitation; for Charlie Kirk taking his weekday slot from 31 March 2025; for Jack Posobiec substituting in the third hour during his absence; and for Prager's planned return on 3 June 2025 to a one-hour show from 2-3 p.m. ET, reduced from a three-hour slot, retaining his 'Happiness Hour' and 'Male Female Hour' segments.
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PragerU. About PragerU. PragerU's own statement of mission — 'to promote American values through the creative use of digital media, technology and edu-tainment' — its 501(c)(3) status, and its format of five-minute videos, documentaries, children's programming and streaming. Its audience figures are the organization's own claims, retrieved 2026-09-01: over 13 billion lifetime views and 5.5 million daily video views.
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Internal Revenue Service, via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer. Prager University Foundation — IRS Form 990 filings (EIN 27-1763901). Source for the organization's legal name (Prager University Foundation), its Sherman Oaks, California address, its IRS ruling date of August 2010, and its finances: total revenue $56,634,743 (2021), $65,499,557 (2022) and $68,678,838 (2023).