Career
He has been a news correspondent for American Broadcasting Company Radio Networks since 1982. In March 2009, he was chosen as a possible successor to Paul Harvey on the radio show The Rest of the Story. Mike Huckabee replaced Limerick after two weeks.
Limerick, a native of Shelby, North Carolina, started his career working the night shift, playing Top 40 music at WOHS radio while still in high school in the early 1960s.
He majored in speech at Wake Forest University and joined the United States Air Force. Then he worked as a Russian linguist.
His broadcast career included stations in Monroe, Columbia and Charlotte, North Carolina in the Carolinas. His big break came at WKIX in Raleigh, where he was morning news editors
He was also morning news editor and anchor at WHDH in Boston, Massachusetts during the 1970s.
Limerick joined American Broadcasting Company Radio Networks in 1982. He announced his retirement from broadcasting on December 7, 2015. Limerick lives in Fairfax Station, Virginia.