Rick and Bubba

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The Rick & Bubba Show
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Genre Talk radio
Running time5 hours
Country of originU.S.
Home station WZZK-FM
StarringRick Burgess
Bill "Bubba" Bussey
Calvin "Speedy" Wilburn
"The Real" Greg Burgess
Michael "Helmsey" Helms
Chris "Eddie Van" Adler
Original releaseJanuary 8, 1994 (1994-1-8) –
December 13, 2024
Website http://www.rickandbubba.com
Rick and Bubba
Also known asThe Rick & Bubba Show
StarringRick Burgess
Bill 'Bubba' Bussey
Calvin 'Speedy' Wilburn
'The Real' Greg Burgess
Michael 'Helmsey' Helms
Chris 'Eddie Van' Adler
Country of originUnited States
Production
Running time5 hours
Live from 5:00am – 10:00am Central
Original release
Network Turner South
ReleaseSeptember 27, 2002 (2002-9-27) –
April 28, 2006 (2006-4-28)

The Rick and Bubba Show was an American comedy radio show based in Birmingham, Alabama. Nationally syndicated and produced at WZZK-FM, the show was live every weekday for five hours and was hosted by Rick Burgess and Bill "Bubba" Bussey.

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States that carry "The Rick & Bubba Show" on radio.
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Jeff Sessions with Rick and Bubba in 2006
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Luther Strange on the Rick and Bubba Show in 2017

The show ended on Friday, December 13, 2024. [1]

The Rick and Bubba Radio Show

The radio program began on January 8, 1994. [2] Rick Burgess was hosting the wake-up show on 103.7 WQEN in the Birmingham radio market and asked the station's chief engineer, Bill "Bubba" Bussey, to co-host it with him. The pairing proved successful. It later moved to 94.5 WYSF in Birmingham. And since 2007, it has been the morning show on WZZK-FM, a country music station.

On February 11, 2008, the broadcast location of the show moved to the "Rick and Bubba Broadcast Plaza and Teleport" in Vestavia Hills, which houses the studio as well as management offices for the show. This location allows fans to see the show from the sidewalk inside Vestavia Hills City Center, as well as from the "Golden Ticket" seats inside the studio. [3]

In March 2009, The Rick and Bubba Show was heard on XM Radio Channel 158, but is no longer available on satellite radio. [4]

A televised version of the show premiered November 1, 2012 on Heartland. It lasted until February 1, 2016. It had also been seen on the Turner South Network.

In January 2022, The Rick and Bubba Show moved to their "No Name Studio" at SummitMedia in Birmingham. SummitMedia owns WZZK-FM and its facilities have studios for several radio stations that broadcast across the area.

On February 1, 2024, after their 7:00 am break, Rick and Bubba announced their co-hosted show would be ending. The pair will continue on the air until their 'Big Year Ender' on December 13, 2024. In January 2025, the program will be rebranded to "The Rick Burgess Show" with the same crew members continuing in their roles. [5] Helmsey departed the show on August 16, 2024 to coach the men and women Tennis teams at Jacksonville State University. On November 27, 2024 Bubba announced he would be doing a podcast starting in 2025 called “Bubba on the Lake”. An exact date for this podcast has not yet been determined.

Books

Their first book, Rick & Bubba's Expert Guide to God, Country, Family & Anything Else We Can Think Of ( ISBN   0-8499-0992-9), was published in March 2006, and quickly became a best-seller at Amazon.com and Books-A-Million as well as making the New York Times best seller list at the number 7 spot in the Miscellaneous category.

Audio recordings

Rick and Bubba have released "best of" CDs every year since 1998. The 2006 release Radio Gold, Volume 1, reached the number 9 spot on the Billboard Top Comedy Albums chart.

References

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