Delilah

On January 26, 2018, Seattle soft AC station KSWD announced that Delilah would host weekday mornings and afternoons on the station beginning January 29, 2018. The station also picked up her syndicated show for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights.

The show can also be heard in the 2018 film I Can Only Imagine, the biographical story of MercyMe lead singer Bart Millard.

In October 2017, Delilah temporarily went on hiatus after the suicide of one of her children.

Delilah was inducted into the NAB Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 2017.

Delilah was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2016, after having been nominated for it in 2015 as well.

Delilah received the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Marconi Award for Network/Syndicated Personality of the Year in 2016; she has also been nominated for the award in 2008, 2013 and 2018.

Delilah is a mother of 14 children, 10 of whom are adopted. Two of the children have died: a 16 year old child, Sammy Young Dzolali Rene, died on March 12, 2012, of complications of sickle-cell anemia which had gone untreated most of his life until he was adopted by Delilah and brought to the US just 9 months before his death. On October 3, 2017, her 18 year old biological son Zachariah died by suicide, following a brief but intense period of depression.

Delilah has been married four times, and frequently jokes about, and refers to, her multiple divorces on her show. She is currently married to her longtime pal Paul Warner. The two were married at her home on October 27, 2012. The invited guests (and most of the staff) were only told that they were attending her annual Harvest party.

In May 2012, Delilah received a Gracie Award, which is given to influential women in media, for Outstanding Host - Entertainment/Information in Radio.

In 2007, the show was nominated for the Syndicated Personality/Show of the Year award by Radio & Records magazine.

Many of the stations carrying the show are owned by Premiere parent iHeartMedia. In November 2006, WLTW in New York began carrying her. The version of the show that runs on WLTW is a separate, specially tailored version of the show produced just for that station, with music programmed by local WLTW Programming. In 2007, longtime lovesongs host Zoe Bonet was dropped from KODA Houston and replaced with her. In March 2012, she went on the air in Los Angeles on KFSH-FM, a Salem Broadcasting owned station playing Christian music. This addition debuted the Christian Music formatted version of the program. iHeartRadio has an online Delilah stream where listeners can hear the show all the time regardless of time zone or broadcast market. Delilah is also on the air at WYJB (B95.5FM), a radio station in Albany, New York in the evening for listeners coming home from work on the weekdays or on the weekends.

The program debuted on four stations at the beginning of 1996, finishing the year on a dozen stations. In 1997, Broadcast Programming started to distribute the program, which was later bought by Jones Radio Networks. Delilah moved to Premiere Radio Networks in 2004, where she remains to this day. There are nearly 170 radio stations, and the Armed Forces Radio Network, airing the program. Jane Bulman is the original executive producer and has been in that role for 20 years.

Delilah's family moved from Coos Bay, Oregon to neighboring Reedsport in 1969, where she attended school. In 1974 she won a middle-school speech contest judged by owners of the local AM radio station. Delilah began her radio career there, at KDUN in Reedsport, doing school reports. She soon was creating advertising spots and then was given her own time slot during shifts before and after school. After graduating from high school in 1978, she worked at numerous stations in Oregon and in Seattle before creating the format she became known for at KLSY in 1984.

Delilah Rene (born February 15, 1960, in North Bend, Oregon) is an American radio personality, author, and songwriter, best known as the host of a nationally syndicated nightly U.S. radio song request and dedication program, with an estimated 8 million listeners. She first aired in the Seattle market as Delilah Rene, though she is now known mononymously as Delilah.