Well I was listening to our local “Classic Rock” station last night and they had a new dj on, his nom de radio was Harley Davidson. There is another local dj who goes by Marshall Stacks…and he has a colleague who is known as Little Red…the radio station goes by the Wolf, so I guess she’s supposed to have a riding hood too…so I want to know what other bad names have your local djs adopted…
Keith
There’s a female DJ here in Houston who calls herself Harley Colt. I think she adopted the name when she was working for a country station, but she’s hopped around the dial to several other formats using the same name. I don’t listen to any of the stations she’s on, but every time I hear the name I just groan.
I personally know a guy named Harley Davidson, and it is not a psuedonym or assumed name, I’ve seen his driver’s license. I suspect that it is not as unique or unusual as some people might think.
One of the traffic people is named Elaine Closure. Blegh.
When I was program director of KDLX, we had a weekend DJ who went by the name of “Skidd Marx.”
All together now - EWWWW!
In his defense, though he was a great personality and was very professional.
But Skidd Marx?
Flint Stone
Rod the Human Tripod
When Jessica Savitch had her first pro dj job on radio, it was at WBBF. She was known as the Honeybee.
Rex King (My sister said, “Does he know he’s redundant?”)
Miles Walker
In Tampa there’s Bubba the Love Sponge.
We have Danni Boy and Slim Fast here. Not bad as much as weird.
At WQRI FM on the Roger Williams University campus in Bristol, RI, we have a DJ called Mr. Excellent. Who the heck would call themselves that? Ridiculously egotistical. What, does he think this will help him get women or something? Why, I oughta-
Oh. Shit.
DC area has a traffic reporter named Vera Bruptly. Har har!
I was Garfield once. Show was Garfield and Fiends.
Let’s see. Booker always reminds me of Weird Al’s record label.
English Muffin…
Radio Chick…
Rest of the really horrid ones are left over from the 60s, so they come by it honestly.
I think we have a traffic update chick here in the bay area named Diamond Lane. barf.
From Edmonton, Alberta, Canada - radio station “The Bear” (www.thebearrocks.com):
Jami Hendrix
Park Warden
Trapper John
Yukon Jack
Ugly
Brandon Manitoba
Sled Dog Michaels
Hurricane Huber
They used to have Goldie Rocks and Jake Daniels.
We have “The Spud Brothers” as the morning guys on one of our rock stations (J-105). Several years ago when "2 Live Crew was popular (not that this station ever played them, this is a rock station) their morning guys were known as “Too Large Crew” because they were all big, fat guys.
oh ya! On the way to Tahoe I heard another traffic chick named Carrie Chains… double barf.
WBCN in Boston used to have a traffic copter (yep, the actual vehicle) called “Wicked High.” I always liked that:)
Colorado Springs, 94.3 KILO has
Jack Mehoff.
Yeah.
No shit.
A group of stations in Watertown and Utica NY and the Scranton-Wilkes Barre area (and I think other neighboring areas) use call letters like WFRG, WFRY, etc. and refer to themselves as FROGGY ## (the ## being the frequency, of course). All their “radio personalities” are required to adopt amphibian-pun bynames and use them on the air.
(FROGGY 97 is a particularly poor “urban country” format, and was prior to their buyout one of the finest rock stations I’ve ever heard.)