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It's pretty indicative of the current cookie cutter corporate radio that a DJ on a country music station in Atlanta is fired for having a heavy southern accent.

How stupid.

I liked Moby and Matthews back in the 97 Rock days.

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Moby in the Mornin'!!! the good ol' days.

If you were to play those old shows today, noone would raise an eyebrow, but for the time, he was pretty raw.

I worked with Moby at KLOL up until the time he left for Atlanta in 1990. He was a good guy. I doubt seriously that he was fired for his accent. They probably are trimming their payroll.

Still, you can be fired for anything in radio. I was fired once for giving the wrong temperature on a weather forcast...true story.

Gig 'Em

I couldn't stand listening to him. Then Stevens and Pruett came along and made Moby look like Masterpeice Theater. It's guys like Moby that made the cracked voice kids on KTRU stumbling through a song title and artist, then shutting up and playing music, sound like the greatest DJ's in the history of ever.

The S&P/Moby "fued" was probably the most fun I've ever had working in radio. You can say what you want about any of them, but all 3 were outstanding at their jobs. I am proud to have been a part of the supporting cast.

Gig 'Em

I don't doubt they were good at what they did. I just never liked what they did, though a lot of people obviously did.

I listened to KLOL because, basically, it was one of the only stations worth listening to back in the late 80's early 90's. I hated S&P, Moby was ok.

And Moby had Hannah Storm doing news and traffic. I can remember Stevens and Pruitt when they were Hudson and Harrigan on the AM side. Stevens judged a chili cook-off for our company recently, I'd say he needs to realize his 15 minutes have been up for a while now.

Moby was soooooooooooo pissed off when Hannah landed her national gig.

Gig 'Em

CSAF, are you an on-air person we should know?

I remember when Moby had a show with John Matthews. That was sort of bizzare.

I thought S&P was sort of funny until I realized all those Uncle Waldo scripts were recycled potty joke I had heard from junior high.

S&P on the Morton Downey Jr. tv show was also bizzare.

I listened to Moby while getting ready for school in the '80's...I liked him. 97 Rock was a great station, they played great music without getting into the "album rock" that was the rage back then.

I'll never forget when 97 Rock was giving away Z-28's and Moby gave one away on his morning show. Moby ran his show on an 8 second delay to bleep out profanity from "live" phone calls. He got his winner...caller number 97...and when told that he won, the guy said "NO S**T!!!" Moby went for the button to bleep him and he missed it, so that went on the air. Then the guy screams "TELL ME WHEN I CAN COME GET THAT MOTHERF***ER!!!" Moby again went for the button and missed...again! All of this was on the air at about 7:20 in the morning. My dad was taking me to school that day and neither one of us could believe what we were hearing.

All of us have radio horror stories, and to hear Moby tell that one was one of the funniest stories I've ever heard.


EDIT: McInnis, if you live in B/CS, you hear me on a dialy basis on radio and television. I was S&P's morning show producer from 1988-1991



Gig 'Em

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Was 97 Rock the station that had the headphone classic show on the weekends? That was kinda cool.

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It's pretty indicative of the current cookie cutter corporate radio that a DJ on a country music station in Atlanta is fired for having a heavy southern accent.

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Yeah, and don't forget that the biggest of the corporate radio conglomerates, Clear Channel Communications, is owned by none other than Lowry Mays, an Aggie whose name can be found on the business school doors. Even though Ags are supposed to support other Ags, I've decided to wean myself away from the Clear Channel radio stations here in Dallas, due to the cookie cutter mentality you speak of. For the most part, I only listen to Wild 100.7 (owned by a smaller conglomerate), KDL 106.7, and ESPN 103.3. Maybe other people will notice that the quality of radio has declined and will boycott Clear Channel as well in attempt to get us back to high quality radio...but my guess is that most people are quite happy with their cookie cutter playlists and syndicated DJs and that corporate radio is here to stay.

Texas Aggie '98
"You should not have won. I had the first move and my play was perfect. The game is flawed."

Eminem hates him

Moby, Mathews and the Cosmic Muffin. 97 Rock.

txagman: if I remember correctly, Wild in Dallas is owned by Infinity, a subsidiary of CBS/Viacom. Sad that radio's so corporate these days.

I was fired from a radio station once because the boss said I no-showed a shift and didn't tell anyone I'd be out of town for a week. Funny, because in his diatribe on how bad an employee I was, he referenced a phone call I made to him while I was out of town to make sure he didn't need me that week and I'd be willing to come back early.

Didn't "Traffic in Bondage" w/ Lanny Grifiths start on 97 Rock?

Remember when 101 used to have a "run away album side", guess you can't do that anymore.

Lanny Griffith and Traffic in Bondage started when Lanny was doing feeds for Metro Traffic. TIB got to be so popular, he had it copywritten and KLOL hired him away from Metro.

I remember Runaway Album Sides...and "Mini-Concerts"...usually 3-4 songs in a row from the same artist.

Gig 'Em

Mini concerts and block party weekends.....3-5 song blocks. I miss those, too.

FM100 used to be the real hard rock station in Houston, dj by the name of "Crash" I remember well. Always sounded like he was high as a kite, i think that was an act. I've been told Outlaw Dave's somewhat similar, not quite who he portrays.

Oh yeah, read in the paper last week that Kevin Dorsey died. I was a big fan of his back when Houston had Z-Rock and he'd do a commentary.

CSAF, did you ever know him?

Kevin and I were running buddies back then. He truly was "America's Guest." Not on the guest list? Just stay next to Kevin.

His passing made me very sad.

Gig 'Em

Moby -- ha, that brings back memories!
"Get your dead asses out of bed!"
Remember those "97 Rock" bumper stickers?

Mobidiots

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holy 16+ year thread bump.

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For some reason the term "Mobidiots" came to my mind. I did the googles and the 5th or 6th hit was this thread.

Call it fate, call it karma. I believe everything happens for a reason.

I was thinking less of that Moby and more of this one

This thread brings back memories.

I miss the 80's and 90's before Howard Stern was the low bar for radio.

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Eminem hates him

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Cattail was an excellent troll.

Moby singing the mailman song was eminently more listenable than any and every crap on any radio station today in Houston.

I don't understand why Houston has such bad radio compared to any other mid-sized city or greater in this country.

Does the Tine even have English language radio programming anymore?

Always a little weird to see an old thread that you commented on being bumped. Man, I wish I could be 34 again!