Steve Harvey, Multimedia King?: NYT

LET'S review Steve Harvey's year. (This may take a while.) His syndicated radio show has an audience of six million, and President Obama has been one of his guests. A version of the show appears in prime time on the Centric cable channel. He became the host of the long-running "Family Feud" game show. His advice book "Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man" spent a good part of the past two years on The New York Times's hardcover advice best-seller list, was No. 1 for 23 weeks, and is being made into a movie by Screen Gems. The recently published sequel, "Straight Talk, No Chaser," had an initial printing of 750,000 copies and makes its debut at No. 1 on the advice list on Sunday.

...Mr. Harvey has become "a legitimate, genuine American media star," said Michael Harrison, the publisher of Talkers magazine, which covers the radio business. "He's a successful radio host for the African-American community, and he's multicultural." It's the goal of any contemporary radio host, Mr. Harrison said, "to not be just a radio personality, but to be a television personality, an author or a newsmaker."

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