Do Radio Shock Jocks Still Exist?

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Lex & Terry is a national syndicated radio show. They started out as shock jocks.

A current Google doesn’t refer to Lex & Terry as shock jocks. I assume that doesn’t fly in todays woke world. They’ve adapted and changed (like Howard Stern) to survive.

This is how they were introduced to Little Rock. They were challenging The Outlaw Tommy Smith. A shock jock in the 80’s and 90’s. He changed his show in the 00’s to straight Talk Radio. Trash-talk inflames LR radio wars. - Free Online Library

Lex and Terry didn’t pull any punchs. I listened to a few shows and decided it wasn’t for me.

We’re] coming to town pretty much to dispose of Tommy the Outlaw and Corey and Gay, who are just three guys who have no business having any listeners whatsoever," Lex Staley said on the show’s Web site, referring to morning hosts Tommy Smith of KMJX-FM, 105.1 (Magic 105), and Corey and Jay of KDJE-FM, 100.3 (The Edge).

“It’s all about girls. It’s all about sports. It’s all about everything a guy likes,” said Terry Jaymes, the other host on the Web site. “And believe it or not, you b****es like it too.”

Not only did the trash-talk raise eyebrows, but so did the show’s content.

Just as the show was sure to attract attention, so has the station’s company, Archway Broadcasting of Atlanta. Formed in July 2002, it has been gobbling up radio stations in the South. In less than a year, it has spent $11.3 million on three stations in Little Rock.