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Ben? Nice to meet you. </fletch>
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Worst Radio DJ handle(s) of all time
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Ben? Nice to meet you. </fletch>
Some of the worst traffic handles - U-turn Laverne (who used to work here), Seymour Wrecks, Ineda Wrecker, and Skid Marks... horrible, horrible, horrible.... :
That's as bad as myself and a co-worker wanting a radio station with John Hungwell on the news, and Harry Ballz
with the sports ;D ;D
Blaine Brooks
Trained traffic monkey
for the generations
That's as bad as myself and a co-worker wanting a radio station with John Hungwell on the news, and Harry Ballz
with the sports ;D ;D
Blaine Brooks
Trained traffic monkey
for the generations
Ben Dover is not his real name. He picked that as his pen name when he wrote his first book about dealing with debt collectors.
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Kent said:
Checked the KMPS website and sure enough...there's Cornbread!
Interestingly enough, he's still on WIL-FM's website, too. Either he's voice-tracking KMPS or WIL-FM hasn't updated their website.
And then there was the Hal Tunis, very pre-Chapman version of KVIL (while they were still in the stand-alone building on the north side of Mockingbird). Hal decided KVIL would truly challenge the "Mighty 1190" for Number ONE. In a "David vs. Goliath" campaign, all air personalities first name suddenly became Dave, Davy, or David. The late, great, Paxton Mills became "David" Mills, David Day (news director) became...oh wait, he already WAS a "David".
As I recall, Goliath won...
As I recall, Goliath won...
crainbebo said:
Just curious is this also how Dave Scott (of Century 21 / TM Century fame) became "Dave Scott"? I've heard that's not his real name...
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IIRC the late great Michael Spears liked handles on his traffic reporters, I remember traffic by "Ray Hubbard Jr." on KRLD.
I know that before he came to Dallas, Dave Scott was a jock on a top forty daytime AM in greater St. Louis (calls escape me, frequency was 1460). So if it's not his real name, at least it's traceable to a radio career of long ago.
I know that before he came to Dallas, Dave Scott was a jock on a top forty daytime AM in greater St. Louis (calls escape me, frequency was 1460). So if it's not his real name, at least it's traceable to a radio career of long ago.
1460 was KIRL from St. Charles, which had a disadvantaged signal into St. Louis. They didn't get nighttime authorization until late in the game, and all they could really hit then was the far western suburbs.
Dave Scott was KIRL's program director (also VP and engineer!) starting in 1968, but as a daytimer for most its heyday it was an "also ran" to the other Top 40's in town. For more, go to "440:Satisfaction" at www.440int.com/440sat.html and click on look up by Station. Plug in KIRL then click on his name. It's an interesting story. (Oh, and there's this website, with more info on "Dave Scott": www.radiotraffic.com/ .)
Dave Scott was KIRL's program director (also VP and engineer!) starting in 1968, but as a daytimer for most its heyday it was an "also ran" to the other Top 40's in town. For more, go to "440:Satisfaction" at www.440int.com/440sat.html and click on look up by Station. Plug in KIRL then click on his name. It's an interesting story. (Oh, and there's this website, with more info on "Dave Scott": www.radiotraffic.com/ .)
longtimelistener said:
There was once a TV sportscaster who used the handle Skip Church. Yes, it was supered on the screen, too.
I worked with a jock who used Marshall Staxx. I actually think that's a great name, and I was the only one at the station who "got it", too.
Around 1992 in The Triad (NC) there was a traffic reporter named Miles Long.
In Nashville is a jock/traffic reporter named Squeegee.
The sidekicks on a long-ago Nashville morning show were "The Morning Stiffs". There was such an uproar they had a contest to rename them. I suggested "The Circle Of Jerks". They didn't pick my name.
I worked with a jock who used Marshall Staxx. I actually think that's a great name, and I was the only one at the station who "got it", too.
Around 1992 in The Triad (NC) there was a traffic reporter named Miles Long.
In Nashville is a jock/traffic reporter named Squeegee.
The sidekicks on a long-ago Nashville morning show were "The Morning Stiffs". There was such an uproar they had a contest to rename them. I suggested "The Circle Of Jerks". They didn't pick my name.
This was really cool:
I seem to remember that when Charlie Quinn programmed Y-95, he would go on-the-air on weekends using the name "Joel Folger!" (who was his direct competitor as KEGL's Program Director) and therefore way very cool.
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Not so cool:
Scott Shannon assigned the name "BATMAN" to KEGL's Jimmy Steal when Jimmy went to Pirate Radio Los Angeles from KEGL.
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These memories brought to you by NITE-QUILL... "The nighttime, sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, stuffy-head, fever, so you can rest overnite radio personality"
I seem to remember that when Charlie Quinn programmed Y-95, he would go on-the-air on weekends using the name "Joel Folger!" (who was his direct competitor as KEGL's Program Director) and therefore way very cool.
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Not so cool:
Scott Shannon assigned the name "BATMAN" to KEGL's Jimmy Steal when Jimmy went to Pirate Radio Los Angeles from KEGL.
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These memories brought to you by NITE-QUILL... "The nighttime, sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, stuffy-head, fever, so you can rest overnite radio personality"
PirateJohnny said:
When I worked at country station KNAX in Fresno, the PD made me use the name: Helen Highwater. Not only was it a T. Graham Brown song, it was also the name of a woman who escaped Alcatraz back in the day, according to a police officer who contacted me. But the kicker......one of my listeners, who really liked me, named her new born child after me, and brought her to the station to meet me. I didn't have the heart to tell her it wasn't my real name. :-\
In the 60s, KELI-AM 1430 had all of their jocks with the last name of "Kelley." So it was Dan Kelley, Bill Kelley, etc.
Same station, in the early 80s, had a morning show sidekick named "Boo-Foo." How they got away with that I will NEVER know.
One of the stations I worked at had their morning guy go by the name of "Jess Cruzin." He loved it. :
Another morning show with Mel Myers had a sidekick named Steve "Banana" Bradley... it was Mel in the Morning & The Breakfast Flakes: Mel & Banana.
I'm sure I've heard others, but those are the worst offenders that come to mind at the moment...
Same station, in the early 80s, had a morning show sidekick named "Boo-Foo." How they got away with that I will NEVER know.
One of the stations I worked at had their morning guy go by the name of "Jess Cruzin." He loved it. :
Another morning show with Mel Myers had a sidekick named Steve "Banana" Bradley... it was Mel in the Morning & The Breakfast Flakes: Mel & Banana.
I'm sure I've heard others, but those are the worst offenders that come to mind at the moment...
Some of the worst names are found on the Froggy and Pig country stations: Lilly Padd and Criss P. Bacon. I've heard Penny Loafers, Jack Mehoff, Ivan Pistov and Chuck Roaster used in some formats, but only as character names. Nothing tops the real life name of the late NASCAR driver, Dick Trickle.
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