Mike Elliott (radio personality)

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Mike Elliott (John Michael Elliot) is a voice over artist and United States radio personality. [1]

Mike Elliott's radio career has taken him from Maine to Pittsburgh, [2] [3] Tampa and Orlando, [1] to Los Angeles, to Phoenix (KZZP) and Tucson, Arizona, where he had the highest-rated morning show in the contemporary-hit format according to Arbitron [1] holding a 25 share in the Tucson market. That means that one out of every four radios that were turned on in Tucson in the morning was tuned to his show. [4] Elliott co-hosted a morning show on 93.7 KRQ with Jimmy Kimmel from 1992-1994. [5]

In 1996 Elliott built WBZN - Z-107.3 / Bangor, Maine from a construction permit into a CHR market leader, owning it for two years. [6]

Mike Elliott & co-worker "Bill" LaTour wrote the parody song "Rock Me Jerry Lewis" in 1986 which reached Number 1 on The Dr. Demento's Funny Five chart. [7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "'Mix 105' Hires Morning Man From Tucson".
  2. "YESTERDAY …". Bangor Daily News .
  3. "Nothing found for Airstaff 5927952". New Country Bear.
  4. Danehy, Tom. "Danehy". Tucson Weekly.
  5. "Jimmy Kimmel Live!". jimmy-kimmel-live.blogspot.com.
  6. steed, wil gerken, nathan hendler, matthew bardram, jason. "Danehy (January 25 - January 31, 1996)". www.tucsonweekly.com.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  7. "The Dr. Demento Show #86-52 - December 28, 1986". www.drdemento.com.