![]() KDYL (AM-1280) - Have you heard Mark Van Wagoner and Danny Kramer, the newest Wasatch Front morning radio team? They're on the air from 5:30-9 a.m. (The "Candid Phone" segment is probably as outrageous as "Fisher and Todd" get.) You can let your kids listen to "Fisher and Todd" - among the best local radio role models around. However, they know how to be funny, entertaining and do creative promotions. Some radio people criticize "Fisher and Todd" for supposedly being too shallow and not funny or shocking enough. (I would have to rate some other popular morning shows R on certain days!) In fact, if I were to rate morning show the way movies are rated (for content like vulgarity, adult themes, sex, etc.), "Fisher and Todd" would be rated PG. They have their zany side, but unlike some DJs who might shock you or make you feel uncomfortable, they are as real as you can get. My quick visit with them reminded me how down-to-earth they are. The popular morning team was doing a remote broadcast from the store on a Saturday morning. KISN (AM-97.1, AM-570) - I ran into "Fisher and Todd" recently at RC Willey Home Furnishings. If the FCC does crack down on the rule, this type of phone prank might die out before long.Īlthough it didn't involve prank-type calls, I've also been put live on the radio myself - without my consent or knowledge - at least once in the past eight years. I don't know if any Utah station has ever specifically broken the rule, but based on the surprise aspect of the phone calls, I don't see how they've bypassed it either. Several popular Utah radio stations, including KISN and KBER, have used prank phone calls extensively. radio station are even suspected of using actors to fool listeners into believing the so-called surprised phone answerers don't know they're on the air. According to a copyrighted story in the June 9 issue of "Inside Radio," regional FCC offices can issue standard fines of $5,000 to stations that break the law.Some U.S. Now the Federal Communications Commission may try to enforce the rule. The problem with this stunt is that it has always been illegal to put people on the air or tape them without their prior consent. 2Day FM presenters Mel Greig and Michael Christian are EXTREMELY annoying, and there's a full two minutes of them being 'zany' before the actual call comes on, so do shimmy yourselves along to the 4:26 minute mark.One of the most popular segments of morning radio shows since the mid-1980s is the phony telephone call where deejays impersonate or pretend they are someone else. She hasn’t had any retching with me since I've been on duty."īelieve it or not, she comes across with yet more details. "I would suggest that any time after nine o'clock would be suitable, because the doctor will be in in the morning, and she will be freshened up in the morning, so I would think any time after nine. Despite this, and the fact that The Queen probably has a direct line for Kate, the nurse continued: When is a good time to come and visit her? I'm the Queen and I'll need a lift down there." and then it descends into actual farce. ![]() she's been given some fluids to rehydrate her as she was quite dehydrated when she came in but she's stable at the moment."ĭJ Mel Greig responded: "OK I'll just feed my little corgies then. ![]() The on duty nurse came across with the following update: "She is sleeping at the moment, and she has had an uneventful night, and sleep is good for her. Two Australian DJs have managed to wangle information from London's King Edward VII Hospital by pretending to be The Queen, Prince Charles and a corgie. Somewhere, the current editor of French Closer is flogging themselves. *UPDATED 14.40* So they've after disabling the YouTube video "due to a copyright claim by Southern Cross Austero".
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