Your favorite funniest moment in Dallas Radio?

[Bob E. Nelson]

What's your favorite funniest moment in Dallas Radio?

Mine is from radio with pictures also flying through the air. It was in 1993 on WFAA-TV when Valerie William's was fighting a frozen tongue in a cold weather report from Hedley. Since I've been in the business so long, I've pretty lost my sense of humor. But this is one that I happened to catch live that night and it absolutely floored me, although YMMV.

Thankfully YouTube has archived it for the ages:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixo7U9sZW6I

 

[MikeShannon914]

Indeed! I was watching that live that night, too, and wish that whoever preserved that classic clip had left in Chip and Tracy's complete reactions afterwards. They just totally lost it on the air. That part was almost as good as poor Valeri's. I read somewhere where Valeri still gets razzed by folks about that, even today.

 

[OHTBGH]

I have a copy on VHS somewhere. I either got it live or recorded it on their repeat late at night. Her husband is the son of the guy that does maintenance for the Whataburger Franchise in Mesquite.

-BGH

 

[thathoustonradiogeek]

Didn't hear it live (it was in the 60's): there's an aircheck online (History of KLIF website?) in which a KLIF DJ is cussing on air as he didn't realize his mike was still on and the other DJ telling him so.

 

[returnofbongo]

2 favorite moments...not kidding: Howard's return to Dallas and Russ's departure.

 

[Holstead]

You can find the famous Paul Chappell / Sam Lee audio st Steve Eberhart's website, www.historyofklif.com.

*Direct from The monsterous audio archives of the Holstead family, thank you very much.

Clearly, that little setback did not doom Paul's future in radio. He is doing quite well-and I hear Sam is too.

 

[TheRover]

Nothing specific.... just many laughs, daily, from The Ticket's Community Quick Hits segment at 6pm, and, The Top Ten at 7....

 

[board monkey]

I got a good laugh one time when I switched a buddy of mines cubical with one in sales. I took several pictures of his to duplicate it in the other part of the building. He was a board op/producer and had tons of stuff on his desk. You should have seen the look on his face when he came in to go to his cube. I worked grave yard at the time and had all night to make the switch while running syndication. LOL too funny.

Also, saw Bossman weed eat Gavin's desk, helped light JD up for the "Rocket Antlers", and I specifically remember a caller on the Liz Wilde show one time call him self a "C" sucking "N" on the air. Of course it got dumped but was funny to hear in the station.

 

[DFW_Radio_2000]

Also, saw Bossman weed eat Gavin's desk, helped light JD up for the "Rocket Antlers", and I specifically remember a caller on the Liz Wilde show one time call him self a "C" sucking "N" on the air. Of course it got dumped but was funny to hear in the station.

Man, Cody, you really need some time away from the board.

 

[board monkey]

Also, saw Bossman weed eat Gavin's desk, helped light JD up for the "Rocket Antlers", and I specifically remember a caller on the Liz Wilde show one time call him self a "C" sucking "N" on the air. Of course it got dumped but was funny to hear in the station.

Man, Cody, you really need some time away from the board.

I'm not Cody. Nice try though.

 

[ocala500]

When Terry Dorsey was doing the HINEY WINE radio commercials on KPLX in the early 80's, he would tell people that the winery was located behind the library in Euless. Literally thousands of KPLX listeners would go to Euless and try to visit the winery. The only thing behind the library was the EULESS POLICE STATION. Several times a week the Euless Police, Library staff and Mayor' staff would call KPLX and ask them to please stop running the HINE spots since there were hundreds of people coming there each week asking for directions to the winery. Later the bit was syndicated on over 600 stations in the US and Canada by T. J. Donnelly, the former GM of KPLX and KLIF who became the marketing and sales strategist behind the successful syndication of HINEY WINE.

 

[SaveDFWRadio]

Funniest moment? When Debi Diaz was hired at Platinum. ;D

 

[ButtnPushr]

I liked it when Walton & Johnson, back on Kiss 106.1 had their "burning question of the day". One day they asked, "what would you do if we were gone tomorrow?" ... and the next day, the station became The Oasis. GENIUS!!!

Or that time Kramer and Twitch got that cab driver's head kicked in was pretty funny too!!

 

[scrtr84]

I liked it when Walton & Johnson, back on Kiss 106.1 had their "burning question of the day". One day they asked, "what would you do if we were gone tomorrow?" ... and the next day, the station became The Oasis. GENIUS!!!

Ummm, Jim Zippo was doing mornings at that point. I was a regular Zippo listener at the time, and it ticked me off to wake up to the Oasis.

 

[easttxtv]

I remember the WBAP morning show guys in the mid-late 1970s talking about (or directly to, can't remember) David Finfrock about to welcome a new baby...one of the guys said David or his wife should name the baby 'Babcock Finfrock'!! My mother laughed about that for years.

Much of what little I got to hear of Stevens & Pruett from their Eagle97 days.

There's been a few LOLs from the Ticket, but I don't remember specifics.

WBAP had somebody years ago telling a funny joke about ducks stamping out forest fires and elephants stamping out burning ducks, but I guess the brain cells aren't all lined up regarding exact details and the punch line.

 

[jasonzbtzl]

Three things from aforementioned former afternoon drive show!

1) Wombat

2) Bill from Ft. Worth calling the 1080 show about landscaping

3 tie between, news about Putin or Clo's/Tre's reaction to the cannon firing unexpectedly