Who says radio doesn't care about their listeners anymore?

[JonInMiddleGA]

Here's a little something from the radio beat writer's blog from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Dec 1: Where’s Crash Clark?
By Rodney Ho | Wednesday, November 30, 2005, 09:46 PM
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Recently engaged traffic reporter Crash Clark was off the air Wednesday on both 99X and Q100. He’s been fired at least twice before from 99X for various indiscretions.

Radio geeks on www.radio-info.comreport that Crash talked early Monday morning on 99X about helping folks out in a Monica Lewinsky sorta way at bar gigs. Complaints ensued, a posting said, and a displeased Leslie Fram relieved him of his duties again. Evidence that this may be true: his bio has been taken off the Web sites for both 99X and Q100.

Basically, it appears that Clark was arranging ... umm ... "encounters" for patrons in the bathrooms at bars where he was doing station remotes.
Let's see XM or Sirius do THAT for you ;)

[GrantDawg]

How in the heck do you get a traffic reporter's job? Those guys generally are in it for life it seems.

[JonInMiddleGA]

How in the heck do you get a traffic reporter's job? Those guys generally are in it for life it seems.

Most of them seem to be one of two types -- those who couldn't quite get into radio the traditional way or those who faded out of full-fledged airshifts after spending some time on the air.

It also helps to have a bladder that resembles a camel's -- those shifts in the traffic copter are kind of notorious.

[Farrah Whitworth-Rahn]

Basically, it appears that Clark was arranging ... umm ... "encounters" for patrons in the bathrooms at bars where he was doing station remotes.
Let's see XM or Sirius do THAT for you ;)
Paging Cam Edwards...

[CamEdwards]

Paging Cam Edwards...

You want me to set you up with one of my listeners?

[Farrah Whitworth-Rahn]

You want me to set you up with one of my listeners?
The fatter and hairier the better. http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

[JeeberD]

Fat? Check.

Hairy? Dammit, no dice. :(

[Farrah Whitworth-Rahn]

Fat? Check.

Hairy? Dammit, no dice. :(
You do have the mullet for the new millenium, that'll work ;)

[GrantDawg]

The fatter and hairier the better. http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

Yeah! I finally have a chance with Farah!

[JonInMiddleGA]

http://www.accessatlanta.com/news/content/entertainment/news/1205/02buzzitem.html

Published on: 12/01/2005

Traffic reporter Christopher "Crash" Clark of 99X and Q100 has been sacked from the Susquehanna-owned radio stations. Again.

Voice mails, cellphones and e-mails all blew up Thursday morning throughout the city as listeners and industry insiders got word of the much-loved Clark's dismissal. His firing was announced on both 99X and sister station Q100.

And the "firable offense?"

Last weekend, Clark turned up at a 99X radio promotion at the Jack Rabbit Lounge in Buckhead to give away highly coveted tickets to a 311 concert. An unidentified female fan told Clark "I'll do anything" to win the tickets. Clark then encouraged the woman and a male fan sitting at the bar to go into a restroom and perform a sex act. When the strangers emerged from the bathroom, the young lady was awarded the tickets.

Clark himself broached the subject of the nightclub stunt early Monday morning on air at 99X.

o-host and the two stations' director of programming, Leslie Fram, obviously irritated, informed Clark on air, "You disgust me!" She added that she had received a phone call of complaint from the nightclub.

On Thursday, Jack Rabbit Lounge owner Michael Krohngold characterized the racy stunt as "an unfortunate negative aspect of the business we try and avoid. It's really not the image we seek out."

Bosses at Susquehanna Radio corporate offices actually lowered the boom on the often-brash radio personality. In the past, Clark, a longtime employee at 99X and the station's earlier incarnation as Power 99, has joked on-air about the numerous times he's been fired from the company. In 2003, Clark memorably "mooned" the station's general manager and his wife on an escalator at Lenox Square.

By Thursday morning, a sympathetic Web site dedicated to the re-hiring of Clark, www.savecrash.org, had sprung up, complete with an online message board for fans and an MP3 file of Monday morning's 99X broadcast featuring Clark's frank discussion of the event.

A call to Clark's cellphone by the AJC was not immediately returned Thursday.

[GrantDawg]

http://www.accessatlanta.com/news/content/entertainment/news/1205/02buzzitem.html

Published on: 12/01/2005

Traffic reporter Christopher "Crash" Clark of 99X and Q100 has been sacked from the Susquehanna-owned radio stations. Again.

Voice mails, cellphones and e-mails all blew up Thursday morning throughout the city as listeners and industry insiders got word of the much-loved Clark's dismissal. His firing was announced on both 99X and sister station Q100.

And the "firable offense?"

Last weekend, Clark turned up at a 99X radio promotion at the Jack Rabbit Lounge in Buckhead to give away highly coveted tickets to a 311 concert. An unidentified female fan told Clark "I'll do anything" to win the tickets. Clark then encouraged the woman and a male fan sitting at the bar to go into a restroom and perform a sex act. When the strangers emerged from the bathroom, the young lady was awarded the tickets.

Clark himself broached the subject of the nightclub stunt early Monday morning on air at 99X.

o-host and the two stations' director of programming, Leslie Fram, obviously irritated, informed Clark on air, "You disgust me!" She added that she had received a phone call of complaint from the nightclub.

On Thursday, Jack Rabbit Lounge owner Michael Krohngold characterized the racy stunt as "an unfortunate negative aspect of the business we try and avoid. It's really not the image we seek out."

Bosses at Susquehanna Radio corporate offices actually lowered the boom on the often-brash radio personality. In the past, Clark, a longtime employee at 99X and the station's earlier incarnation as Power 99, has joked on-air about the numerous times he's been fired from the company. In 2003, Clark memorably "mooned" the station's general manager and his wife on an escalator at Lenox Square.

By Thursday morning, a sympathetic Web site dedicated to the re-hiring of Clark, www.savecrash.org (http://www.savecrash.org/), had sprung up, complete with an online message board for fans and an MP3 file of Monday morning's 99X broadcast featuring Clark's frank discussion of the event.

A call to Clark's cellphone by the AJC was not immediately returned Thursday.

Crash will get another job. Maybe 680 will bring him, since they are the "new FM."

[GrantDawg]

BTW, Crash has definitely worked at 99x a long time. I remember hearing him on Power 99, and it hasn't been Power 99 in a long time.

[GrantDawg]

and as a triple dola, I got to do a radio survey the other day. I'm almost positive it was for 96 Rock and there search for a revamped format. They had me listening to music blends and telling them which I liked best. Strange stuff.