re: Walton & Johnson fans in NOLA: they're no longer on Bayou 95.7

i wonder if the country guy dies, if they'll just go on without him because he seems kinda like the #2 main guy. when kid kraddick died, the show went on without him, the main guy, so i guess it's possible. the black guy and gay guy come on later as guests, so if one of them died, that probably wouldn't be as big of a deal.

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It's a great source for news and entertainment. Sorry some of us like to stay informed.

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Even you don't believe that.

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i wonder if the country guy dies, if they'll just go on without him because he seems kinda like the #2 main guy. when kid kraddick died, the show went on without him, the main guy, so i guess it's possible. the black guy and gay guy come on later as guests, so if one of them died, that probably wouldn't be as big of a deal.

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I hope this is a joke... Johnson is all 3 of them... the "country", "gay" and "black" guys

I had carpool at that age. One of the mom's would let us listen.

The day they had story time. Story time was one of the best things they did.

R.I.P. Taser Report

When they would go off the deep end about Obama, Trump, climate change, or the songs sucked. But at times they were entertaining. Gotta admit the back n forth between characters was good.

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1983 WQUE New Orleans (Clear Channel Communications) The W&J Show came together for the first time. After replacing "Scoot in the morning," W&J took the morning show to #1 in adults from the station's usual outside of the top 10 position. CCC offered a multi-year contract but W&J wanted to try the show in larger markets.

1986 KTKS (Kiss 106) Dallas/Ft. Worth (Gannett Comm) W&J had the good fortune to have a choice between 3 major stations the CBS O&O FM in Los Angeles, KZPS, or KTKS both in Dallas. They chose KTKS to work with Gerry DeFrancisco and Jay Cook. W&J took the CHR station from out of the top 10 to #4 in the market 12+ behind only Chapman, Joiner, and Dorsey. In key demos such as 18-34 the show was often #1 or #2. Gannett pulled the plug on the format as the performance of the whole radio station never measured up to that of the morning show.

1988 WQHT New York (Emmis Comm) W&J were brought in for a 3 month tryout by Rick Cummings and Jeff Smulyan for the hybrid dance CHR in New York City. Emmis wasn't sure that a southern bred show would play in New York. Not only did it play, it seemed that it was going to thrive. Negotiations, however, fell through when then agent Saul Foos urged W&J to do mornings on a Houston move in. The boys thought they enjoyed a large equity position in this property so passing on NY seemed a no-brainer at the time. Of course, most of us in the business now know of this as the famed "Ponzi Scheme Case" and we all know the folly that ensued. As luck would have it EZ Communications offered a lucrative deal to return to New Orleans.

1988 WEZB New Orleans (E Z Comm) W&J replaced Ken Cooper and immediately vaulted station to the top where it would stay. W&J were #1 over a 5 year contract that produced an estimated 12 million in morning only billing.

1993 Syndication W&J formed MasterVox Media in New Orleans and syndicated the show independently without a flagship station. Immediately signed WEZB New Orleans and WTGE Baton Rouge to carry the show. Having no major corporate affiliation, money problems began almost immediately. John and Steve feuded over how to save the network. The disagreement resulted in the team going their separate ways in the spring of 1994. Walton teamed for awhile with Rick Rumble and carried on with MasterVox and B-97 mornings, later gathering as many as 26 stations in syndication before throwing in the towel. Johnson left MasterVox during the tiff and teamed with Gary Spears to do afternoons quite successfully on B-97.

1994 WCKW New Orleans Reconciliation. W&J now realizing that the whole of the show was better than the sum of its parts decided to give synergy another try. It turned out to be the best possible move. The burnout that many team shows face was now behind them. Their roles were more clearly defined than at any other time in the history of the show. The show was now more comfortable, productive, and powerful than it had ever been. The metamorphosis they had gone through had transformed the show into smooth machine that far surpassed anything it had ever been during its very successful past. The show was now so good in fact that many people were approaching them to put the show back into syndication.

Jan 1, 1999 WRNO New Orleans. The rebirth of the legendary "Rock of New Orleans" with W&J as the cornerstone and a new syndication deal which both the small Centennial Broadcasting and Beasley Broadcasting gave little more than lip service. W&J are proud to have "The Eagle" 98.1 in Baton Rouge as the premier key affiliate. The Eagle is widely recognized as one of the finest rock radio stations in the South.

Feb 1, 2002 KLOL Houston. Early in 2004 the 34 year proud history of Houston's famed rock station KLOL came crashing to an end as KLOL was urgently flipped to become Houston's needless 16th Spanish station (a need that just had to be filled). W&J continue to service all affiliates with a new Houston flagship to be announced later.

Oct 2004 KIOL Houston. Became the new flagship station of the show. Now broadcasting via satellite to The Bone in Dallas/Ft Worth, top-rated Eagle 98.1 Baton Rouge, and now The Bayou in New Orleans where as a direct result of W&J being taken off WRNO (break with all Clear Channel stations) totally knocked that station out of the rock format (now talk), The Pirate Lake Charles, WCPR Biloxi/Gulfport, The Eagle Temple/Killeen, KFH Wichita, and with more to be announced soon. The show continues to expand everyday and the 10%'ers are loving it.

July 31st 2007 KPRC Houston. Served as the flagship for the W&J Show. The Radio Mojo where W&J were featured along with Michael Savage, Dennis Miller, and Bill O Reilly on unique high energy talk station. W&J decide to shift back to a big stick FM flagship for the coverage and access to younger listeners.

Awesome. That's the most annoying ignorant trash on the radio.

Hopefully every radio station in America follows suit.

Bracing myself for tigerlee downvote