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Favorite Dj on local radio.
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Is that including voice-tracked and/or A.I. DJs?
Honestly, in my market, not a one. They've all been replaced by mono-toned sound alikes. The morning shows with the forced, fake laughter from really horrendous "jokes" they tell just turn me off, mainly because they're really vanilla-sounding so as not to piss off any listeners. The few that I know or listened to have left that business or been canned and wandered off to other stations that I don't care to listen to.
Honestly, in my market, not a one. They've all been replaced by mono-toned sound alikes. The morning shows with the forced, fake laughter from really horrendous "jokes" they tell just turn me off, mainly because they're really vanilla-sounding so as not to piss off any listeners. The few that I know or listened to have left that business or been canned and wandered off to other stations that I don't care to listen to.
Specifically regarding LARadio it used to absolutely be Kevin & Bean (and mostly for Bean's contributions).
Current DJs that stand out include:
* Andy Chanley, afternoons on The SoCal Sound (KCSN, KSBR)
* Matt Pinfield, Sunday evenings on KLOS has a unique on-air persona
* Gary Bryan, morning drive on KRTH has been solid for years
Current DJs that stand out include:
* Andy Chanley, afternoons on The SoCal Sound (KCSN, KSBR)
* Matt Pinfield, Sunday evenings on KLOS has a unique on-air persona
* Gary Bryan, morning drive on KRTH has been solid for years
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"K-Moo" Mineola, Texas morning lady "Mama T". Simply the most authentic, genuine personality you will find on Tyler-Longview radio.
Ditto on Andy Chanley and Gary Bryan. KRTH's afternoon and evening hosts, Greg Sims and Larry Morgan are also excellent. Deserving of a special shoutout is JoJo Wright at KIIS. Over 25 years of being relevant to the KIIS demo.
Kevin & Sluggo on KLOS
Going East, in Cleveland I began listening to radio with Alan Freed and, later Pete "Mad Daddy" Myers on block-programmed WJW. Also Joe Finan and Specs Howard on WERE, Cleveland's first full Top 40 station. Of course, I was a pre-teen in that era but I loved radio. After that, it was Big Wilson on MOR station WJW... which actually had a unified format by around 1961-62.
Terri Hemmert at WXRT Chicago. I know she's retired but she still does fill-in shifts and it's magical when she's there.
Loved listening to Mad Daddy when he was on WINS in New York
Sorry, David, that's not the full story. Pete Myers came to New York initially to be on WNEW, where he tried his "Mad Daddy" act one evening, and was told in no uncertain terms never to do it again. He moved over to 1010 WINS, doing Mad Daddy there, where he became a late evening (10-Midnight) cult hit in the 1963-64 time frame. (I used to listen to him many nights after WMCA turned off the music to air its Barry Gray talk show at 11 pm). But Westinghouse decided to release him in the months leading up to the switch to all-news, and Pete Myers ended up back at staid, MOR WNEW, playing Great American Songbook and jazz music. It was (reportedly) the despair he felt from being handcuffed in that format that motivated him to take his own life.
And that is what I meant by "format restrictions". At the end, he was in a format he did not like and unable to be his radio character.
Yes, if you limit the comment to the WNEW experience at the end, then yes, you're right. But I think he really wanted to be doing Top 40 radio, not MOR, and my memory is he was having a ball, maybe two, in the Mad Daddy persona at WINS. Unfortunately, when he was let go -- for whatever the motivations of WINS and Group W -- he was sandwiched in. WMCA was doing the Good Guys team approach, where that shtick wasn't going to fly, and WABC would never have bought his kind of act. And once WINS went to all-news, there was no more #3 to go to. By the time the next #3 came along (WOR-FM in late '66), the zeitgeist was changing and his act was an anachronism. It really wasn't until Southern Pacific acquired WJRZ and turned it into WWDJ that a station existed that might buy the act (maybe as nostalgia by then). But that would be 1971, and Pete Myers by then had been dead 4 or 5 years already. Perhaps in a smaller market, but even there, by 1967, '68, "Mad Daddy" would have been on life support.
If we're Time Traveling, I'll go back to late 60s in the Tampa Bay area. One I can remember was "Stanley Steamer" on WLCY. Later in the early 80s, back to Tampa Bay, Cleveland Wheeler & Scott Shannon [even though I was competing against them and getting my ass handed to me] .Couple others on other stations but, in my advanced age, I can't remember their names or call letters. Flash forward to Ohio [Pete "Mad Daddy" Myers & Alan Freed were long gone, but in the early 70s John Lanigan, Don Imus, The "Real" Bob James and Ed Fisher, "Vernon with a V", Phil Gardner were my go-to guys for listening to.
SP was a railroad...it was Pacific & Southern that purchased WJRZ in Hackensack and (foolishly) went after WABC and WMCA with teeny bopper Top 40. Bwana Johnny was good, but not as good as the Good Guys at 5~Seventy and the All Americans at 70~Seven. Mad Daddy & Murray the K were great personalities in the sixties at 10~Ten WINS New York.
Re: P&S vs. SP, yes, you're right. (The ol' mental database needs a defragging.) Also, by then WMCA had shifted formats to talk, heavy on the call-ins. And 5Kw WWDJ could never compete in the sprawling tristate area with WABC's flamethrower, and WNBC, a flamethrower in its own right, which had decided to compete for real in that arena, hiring Don Imus just a few months later. Another headwind was that listening had already started to shift to FM.
Unfortunately, the "WW" in WWDJ must have referred to "whirlwind", since it was a revolving door of talent over its three years before flipping to religious.
Terri is very good. I think she still does Breakfast With the Beatles on Sunday, but not sure.
My favorite was the old WCFL, especially Ron Briton who was at many Chicago stations over about 30+ years. Amazing voice, sound effects and humor. He was just as good at top 40 as he was at psychedelic programming on Sundays.
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