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The '''Don and Mike Show''' was an American nationally [[Radio syndication|syndicated]] [[Talk radio|radio talk show]] hosted by the [[shock jock]]s [[Don Geronimo]] and [[Mike O'Meara]], which aired from December 1985 through April 11, 2008. The show debuted on [[WAVA-FM]] in 1985 as ''The Morning Zoo with Don and Mike''. The official name of the show became'' The Don and Mike Show'' when the duo moved to WJFK-FM in 1991. In the later years, the show was carried on |
The '''''Don and Mike Show''''' was an American nationally [[Radio syndication|syndicated]] [[Talk radio|radio talk show]] hosted by the [[shock jock]]s [[Don Geronimo]] and [[Mike O'Meara]], which aired from December 1985 through April 11, 2008. The show debuted on [[WAVA-FM]] in 1985 as ''The Morning Zoo with Don and Mike''. The official name of the show became'' The Don and Mike Show'' when the duo moved to WJFK-FM in 1991. In the later years, the show was carried on 20–30 stations across the [[United States]] by the [[CBS]]-owned [[Westwood One (1976–2011)|Westwood One]] Radio Network. The show's [[flagship]] station was [[WJFK-FM|106.7 WJFK-FM]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] In 2007 the show ranked #66 in the [[Talkers Magazine]] Heavy 100.<ref>{{cite news|title=2007 Heavy 100 |url=http://www.talkers.com/main/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19&Itemid=44 |work=Talkers Magazine |access-date=2007-08-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080116142514/http://www.talkers.com/main/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19&Itemid=44 |archive-date=2008-01-16 }}</ref> Geronimo retired in 2008.<ref>{{cite news| title=Don Geronimo's Sayonara Song| date=2008-02-23 |url=http://blog.washingtonpost.com/rawfisher/2008/02/don_geronimos_sayonara_song.html| newspaper=Washington Post | access-date=2008-06-08| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110523102920/http://blog.washingtonpost.com/rawfisher/2008/02/don_geronimos_sayonara_song.html| archive-date=2011-05-23}}</ref> The show's last live regular episode with Geronimo was broadcast March 13, 2008 and Geronimo hosted a farewell show April 11, 2008.<ref name='randr'>{{cite news |first=Mike |last=Stern |title=Geronimo Pulls The Rip Cord |url=http://www.radioandrecords.com/RRWebSite/NewsStoryPage.aspx?ContentID=WDm0rnuQBFo%3d&Version=0 |work=Radio and Records |access-date=2008-04-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080416031551/http://www.radioandrecords.com/RRWebSite/NewsStoryPage.aspx?ContentID=WDm0rnuQBFo%3D&Version=0 |archive-date=2008-04-16 }}</ref> After Geronimo's retirement, the remaining cast members formed the ''[[Mike O'Meara Show]].'' |
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The show's last live regular episode with Geronimo was broadcast March 13, 2008 and Geronimo hosted a farewell show April 11, 2008.<ref name='randr'>{{cite news | first=Mike | last=Stern | coauthors= | title=Geronimo Pulls The Rip Cord | date= | publisher= | url =http://www.radioandrecords.com/RRWebSite/NewsStoryPage.aspx?ContentID=WDm0rnuQBFo%3d&Version=0 | work =Radio and Records | pages = | accessdate = 2008-04-03 | language = }}</ref> After Geronimo's retirement, the remaining cast members formed the ''[[Mike O'Meara Show]].'' |
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==Personalities== |
==Personalities== |
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The show was co-hosted by |
The show was co-hosted by O'Meara and Geronimo. News briefs and occasional commentary were provided by [[Buzz Burbank]]. The show was most recently produced by former show intern [[Robb Spewak]]. Phone calls were screened by [[Joe Ardinger]] . |
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The show included four news reporters over the course of its run. David Haines (1985–1989), the program's original newsman, died on July 10, 2005 |
The show included four news reporters over the course of its run. David Haines (1985–1989), the program's original newsman, died on July 10, 2005 <ref>{{cite news | title=Obituaries | date=2005-07-13 |newspaper =Washington Post | pages =B05 }}</ref> Laurie Neff was the second newsperson.<ref>{{cite news | title=Barry | date=1988-06-22 |newspaper =Washington Post }}</ref> |
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| ⚫ | Geronimo announced on February 4, 2008, that he would leave the show on May 30. That date was moved up to April 11, 2008,<ref>{{cite news|title=WJFK's Don Geronimo to Retire This Month |publisher=Washington Post |url=http://www.readexpress.com/read_freeride/2008/04/wjfks_don_geronimo_to_retire_this_month.php |work=Express |access-date=2008-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080406224008/http://www.readexpress.com/read_freeride/2008/04/wjfks_don_geronimo_to_retire_this_month.php |archive-date=2008-04-06 |url-status=dead }}</ref> in a surprise announcement from the WJFK program director which also included the return of Beth Ann McBride as producer.<ref name="randr"/> The show was then known as ''The Mike O'Meara Show''. It continued along with a similar format, minus Don, up until July 2009 when the show was cancelled following the decision to turn WJFK into a sports talk station.<ref>{{cite news | first=Kara | last=Rowland | title=Don Geronimo to leave talk-radio show | date=2008-02-05 | url =http://washingtontimes.com/article/20080205/BUSINESS/573627930/1006 | work =Washington Times | access-date = 2008-02-05 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Legendary Don Geronimo to Exit WJFK-FM on May 30 |date=2008-02-05 |url=http://news.radio-online.com/cgi-bin/$rol.exe/headline_id=n17597 |work=Radio Online |access-date=2008-02-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080504124505/http://news.radio-online.com/cgi-bin/%24rol.exe/headline_id%3Dn17597 |archive-date=2008-05-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.insidenova.com/isn/news/local/manassas/article/omeara_out_in_wjfk_format_change/39464/|title=O'Meara out in WJFK format change|date=2009-07-14|publisher=InsideNova.com|access-date=2009-07-16|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120907112003/http://www.insidenova.com/isn/news/local/manassas/article/omeara_out_in_wjfk_format_change/39464/|archive-date=2012-09-07}}</ref> [[Westwood One (1976–2011)|Westwood One]] also continued to syndicate the show in its new lineup up until its cancellation. ''The Mike O'Meara Show'' took a 5-month hiatus and returned as a daily podcast in December. Don Geronimo broadcast out of Washington D.C. WJFK 106.7 The Fan for a brief stint in 2013. In April 2014, Geronimo joined former D&M partner Buzz Burbank's RELM Network to host his own podcast, ''The Don Geronimo Show'', lasting only four months, citing RELM did not pay him. Burbank denied the claim, saying Geronimo "was paid every penny he was owed to that point".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://thedailyrecord.com/2014/08/15/radio-god-leaves-the-relm/|title='Radio god' leaves the RELM|date=15 August 2014}}</ref> |
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WAVA and WJFK-FM subscribe to the traffic services of fellow [[CBS Radio]] subsidiary [[Metro Traffic]]. Former Washington traffic reporters include Kim "Boomer" Anderson, Rob Carpenter, Janet DeLaney, Kris Gamble, Stevie Bridgewater, and [[Shari Elliker]] (1992–1996) Elliker co-hosted the [[Broadminded]] radio program on [[XM Radio]] and currently hosts her own show on [[WBAL (AM)|WBAL]] in Baltimore, Maryland. The show also took advantage of the service's offer to allow the show to provide pseudonyms for its traffic reporter. Over the years, "Michael Hunt", "Vera Bruptly", "Lane Closure", "Jason Feces", and "Michelle Hughes" (a take-off on "Michael Hughes", WJFK's general manager) were heard on the WJFK-FM feed of the show (not on affiliate feeds). |
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==History== |
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In [[1985 in radio|1985]] Don Geronimo was doing afternoons on [[WAVA-FM]]. That year, the station asked him to move to mornings, and Geronimo, who had heard O'Meara entertaining station employees with impressions, asked whether O'Meara could serve as a co-host during his new time slot. The new program would replace the "Charlie and Harrigan Show".<ref>The Don and Mike Show, December 11, 1995</ref> |
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WAVA debuted "The New [[Morning zoo]]" on December 11, 1985, pairing up hosts Don Geronimo and Mike O'Meara. It also featured David Haines with news, Kim Anderson (nicknamed "Boomer" or Kim "Boom Boom" Anderson) on traffic reports, and was produced by John Nolan. Nolan was later replaced by producer [[Frank Murphy (Radio)|Frank Murphy]]. Whenever anything went wrong with the show, Don or Mike would shout "Fraaaank". The original format interspersed talk and comedy bits with top-40 music. |
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For several weeks during the summer of 1987, Geronimo and O'Meara hosted their own Washington, DC-based television series, "The Prime Time Video Zoo", which was aired on the local CBS affiliate WUSA. Airing weekly at 8pm, the show was taped with a small studio audience and featured several bits from the radio program as well as O'Meara's impressions and D.C. area personalities, with segments of Top-40 music videos. |
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Haines was the first show "regular" to leave for a better offer elsewhere, departing for more money at [[WPLJ]] in New York City in [[1989 in radio|1989]]. Haines' replacement was Laurie Neff. Dave Schreiber succeeded Neff.<ref>12/11/95, ibid</ref> |
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Geronimo's wife was a DJ at the time of the debut of the show, using the radio name "Laura Petrie." Geronimo's young son Bart Sorce made appearances on the early stages of the show as "Bart the Weatherman." |
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In June 1991 WAVA was purchased by [[Salem Communications]]. At first, Salem was known primarily as a religious broadcaster. But it had a few secularly programmed stations, and indicated it might be interested in maintaining a contemporary music format on WAVA if Don & Mike would stay on as the morning show. When the duo accepted a better offer from crosstown WJFK, Salem later announced that it would be changing WAVA's format to Christian music & teaching. |
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===WJFK era, and national syndication=== |
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The show debuted in the afternoons on WJFK on October 1, 1991. After a two-month hiatus, the show had changed time slots, stations and producers, with Diana Silman replacing [[Frank Murphy (Radio)|Frank Murphy]]. Mike Elston, known on the show as Buzz Burbank, joined the show in December 1991. The program evolved after the move, adding Burbank and traffic reporter Shari Liquour (real name [[Shari Elliker]]) to the cast. Robb Spewak joined the show as an intern in 1992. He would perform various stunts. |
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The program was added to the lineup of WNEW in New York, and moved to mid-days in 2001. The move was billed as an opportunity to maximize the show's potential, and promote fellow Infinity Broadcasting network program [[Opie and Anthony]]. It didn't work. The program garnered low ratings in New York. The show was #1 in Washington, DC during its last ratings book for mid-days but was removed from the WNEW lineup. |
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The last day in mid-days was August 21, 2002. The program returned to afternoons on September 3, 2002, in most of the markets where it had been broadcast before the move. In late [[2006 in radio|2006]], the show went on an extended hiatus without explanation. |
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When the show started broadcasting again live on January 2, 2007, it was revealed that Don had been angry since the death of Freda, and he felt that he had not had time to properly grieve. Don was also feeling guilty about feeling happy without Freda. For all intents and purposes Don and Mike thought that the show was done, but after a few weeks Don accepted his bosses' offer to take the rest of 2006 off, get his head together with the help of a counselor, and then return in 2007. [http://s146481175.onlinehome.us/archive/DAILY_LOG-archive-2-1-2007.shtml] |
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===Don's retirement=== |
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===Controversies=== |
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On August 17, 1999, the show called an El Cenizo, Tex. city councilwoman and lampooned the community's decision to conduct official business in Spanish. The FCC fined Infinity Broadcasting $4,000, the minimum amount, for "willful violation of Section 73.1206 of the Commission’s rules, the unauthorized broadcast of a telephone conversation."<ref name='EB-00-IH-0009'>{{cite news | first= | last= | coauthors= | title=NOTICE OF APPARENT LIABILITY FOR FORFEITURE | date= | publisher=FCC | work =Orders of the Federal Communications Commission | pages = | accessdate = 2008-04-08 | language = }}</ref> [http://paintyourbaldspot.com/?action=showBlog&blog_id=5818 TD&MS 8-17-1999] |
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On February 3, 2004, a pair of expletives ("bullshit"--twice, and the word "masturbation"<ref>[http://paintyourbaldspot.com/?action=showBlog&blog_id=5117 The Don & Mike Show Tues, Feb 3, 2004 (Via Paintyourbaldspot.com)] |
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At about 01hr 45m into the show Don rants about how they have a delay for the show and yet they won't let them say the word for "getting your jerk on"--masturbation--but yet all other euphemisms for that word are permitted. Don then begins to describe the hypocrisy that <nowiki>[[Don Imus]]</nowiki> and drop the BS-bomb ("bullshit") and nothing happens except a small apology from the station. Don proceeds to call this "bullshit": |
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Don: "That's bullshit! That's bullshit! I'm gonna see if they're gonna hit the [delay] button when I say it." |
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Buzz: "Repeating it won't help." |
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[at 1hr 48 20sec]: Don: "They probably just hit it again because I just said 'masturbation'." </ref>) spoken by Geronimo were not censored by the usual delay, resulting in a shakeup of the show. The show was subsequently suspended for two weeks. When they returned on February 20, 2004, their first show included four consecutive hours of music. |
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The move toward [[Reverberation|reverb]] fluctuated throughout the life of the show. When Don became program director of WJFK-FM for a short time, he ordered reverb be added to the entire station, and years before that, when the duo first appeared on WJFK in October 1991 a caller asked, "Where's the [[Reverberation|reverb]]?" The show on WAVA-FM had used heavy [[Reverberation|reverb]]. {{cn|date=August 2013}} |
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On December 16, 1994, the program broadcast live from the El Dorado Casino in Reno, Nev. In 1996 the show produced "Sex, Pies and Videotape", a video which featured Don and Mike taking a bus full of listeners to a local nudist colony for an Olympic style event, during which all of the contestants were nude. |
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In July 2003 the Don and Mike Show also collaborated with Brocket 99 radio station to promote the self-deprecating humour of Ernie Scar, a supposedly Native American aboriginal that stereotypes life on the local reserve nearby. A 2005 documentatory titled "Brocket 99 - Rockin' the Country", by Nilesh Patel illustrates this point by raising the issue in an effort to bridge the cultural divide. However, the segments featuring Brocket 99 on Don and Mikes' Radio show triggered no public outcry. |
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The show developed both good and bad relationships with several Hollywood celebrities over the years. [[Leah Remini]] was a great friend of the show. Don and Mike have visited with Leah in her home and appeared on the [[King of Queens]]. Leah's appearances were so frequent on the show that she had an [[ISDN]] line installed in her home; however, she was unable to contribute to the show at the same level for longer periods of time. [[Max Baer, Jr.]], star of [[The Beverly Hillbillies]], feuded with Don and Mike after they made fun of his idea to open a Beverly Hillbillies casino in Reno, Nevada. He claimed on local radio he would "spend the rest of [his] life badmouthing Don and Mike."<ref>The Don and Mike Show: January 18. 2007</ref> |
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==External links== |
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* [http://donandmikewebsite.com/ The Don & Mike Show Radio Archives] A website with [[ |
* [http://donandmikewebsite.com/ The Don & Mike Show Radio Archives] A website with [[podcasts]] of old ''Don & Mike Shows'' |
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| Genre | Talk |
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| Running time | 4 hours |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| Home station | WJFK-FM |
| Syndicates | 26 affiliates |
| Starring | Don Geronimo and Mike O'Meara |
| Announcer | Dude Walker |
| Produced by | John Nolan, Frank Murphy, Diana Silman, Charles Broyhill, Lisa Herndon, John Normand, BethAnn McBride, Robb Spewak |
| Original release | 12-11-1985 – 4-11-2008 |
The Don and Mike Show was an American nationally syndicated radio talk show hosted by the shock jocks Don Geronimo and Mike O'Meara, which aired from December 1985 through April 11, 2008. The show debuted on WAVA-FM in 1985 as The Morning Zoo with Don and Mike. The official name of the show became The Don and Mike Show when the duo moved to WJFK-FM in 1991. In the later years, the show was carried on 20–30 stations across the United States by the CBS-owned Westwood One Radio Network. The show's flagship station was 106.7 WJFK-FM in Washington, D.C. In 2007 the show ranked #66 in the Talkers Magazine Heavy 100.[1] Geronimo retired in 2008.[2] The show's last live regular episode with Geronimo was broadcast March 13, 2008 and Geronimo hosted a farewell show April 11, 2008.[3] After Geronimo's retirement, the remaining cast members formed the Mike O'Meara Show.
Personalities
[edit]The show was co-hosted by O'Meara and Geronimo. News briefs and occasional commentary were provided by Buzz Burbank. The show was most recently produced by former show intern Robb Spewak. Phone calls were screened by Joe Ardinger .
The show included four news reporters over the course of its run. David Haines (1985–1989), the program's original newsman, died on July 10, 2005 [4] Laurie Neff was the second newsperson.[5]
Geronimo announced on February 4, 2008, that he would leave the show on May 30. That date was moved up to April 11, 2008,[6] in a surprise announcement from the WJFK program director which also included the return of Beth Ann McBride as producer.[3] The show was then known as The Mike O'Meara Show. It continued along with a similar format, minus Don, up until July 2009 when the show was cancelled following the decision to turn WJFK into a sports talk station.[7][8][9] Westwood One also continued to syndicate the show in its new lineup up until its cancellation. The Mike O'Meara Show took a 5-month hiatus and returned as a daily podcast in December. Don Geronimo broadcast out of Washington D.C. WJFK 106.7 The Fan for a brief stint in 2013. In April 2014, Geronimo joined former D&M partner Buzz Burbank's RELM Network to host his own podcast, The Don Geronimo Show, lasting only four months, citing RELM did not pay him. Burbank denied the claim, saying Geronimo "was paid every penny he was owed to that point".[10]
Geronimo now[when?] hosts and owns his own show.
References
[edit]- ^ "2007 Heavy 100". Talkers Magazine. Archived from the original on 2008-01-16. Retrieved 2007-08-04.
- ^ "Don Geronimo's Sayonara Song". Washington Post. 2008-02-23. Archived from the original on 2011-05-23. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
- ^ a b Stern, Mike. "Geronimo Pulls The Rip Cord". Radio and Records. Archived from the original on 2008-04-16. Retrieved 2008-04-03.
- ^ "Obituaries". Washington Post. 2005-07-13. pp. B05.
- ^ "Barry". Washington Post. 1988-06-22.
- ^ "WJFK's Don Geronimo to Retire This Month". Express. Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2008-04-06. Retrieved 2008-04-08.
- ^ Rowland, Kara (2008-02-05). "Don Geronimo to leave talk-radio show". Washington Times. Retrieved 2008-02-05.
- ^ "Legendary Don Geronimo to Exit WJFK-FM on May 30". Radio Online. 2008-02-05. Archived from the original on 2008-05-04. Retrieved 2008-02-05.
- ^ "O'Meara out in WJFK format change". InsideNova.com. 2009-07-14. Archived from the original on 2012-09-07. Retrieved 2009-07-16.
- ^ "'Radio god' leaves the RELM". 15 August 2014.
External links
[edit]- The Don & Mike Show Radio Archives A website with podcasts of old Don & Mike Shows