Is Mark Shannon KTOK's New Afternoon Host?
Veteran broadcaster and blogger Mark Shannon may be radio station KTOK's new afternoon show host.
Shannon, last on the air here hosting the morning show on WKY before it flipped to Hispanic music and before that the morning host on a Nashville talk station, today posted a message under his name on his blog: "His next 25 years of OKC radio starts Monday," the message reads. He's also addded a line to his biography noting he will return to Oklahoma City radio on Monday. As we reported on Friday, the station will introduce its new afternoon drive show host on Monday. Shannon's background includes work as an FM disc jockey in several states. In 1983, after a stop in Amarillo, he moved to Oklahoma City and joined KJ103FM (KJY0). His 7-year run there ended when he joined Classic Rock 107.7 KRXO, for eight years, where he evolved the mornings from a "more rock, less talk" format to a "no rock, all talk" show. The show, which was sometimes described as Rush Limbaugh meets Howard Stern, helped take the struggling station to number one in the market, and the highest rated classic rock station (percentage of audience) in the United States. In 1998, The Sports Animal 104.9/640am, hired Shannon to do a "man show" for the sports station.
In October of 2000, he was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, (CLL) a slowly progressing form of the disease of the blood. It responded to treatments and was in remission until earlier this year; he now is undergoing chemotherapy again.
Shannon returned to Oklahoma City after a stint doing mornings on 50,000 watt AM news/talk WLAC in Nashville and then joined WKY as the morning show host, a slot he held for three years until the station flipped its format.
Shannon, last on the air here hosting the morning show on WKY before it flipped to Hispanic music and before that the morning host on a Nashville talk station, today posted a message under his name on his blog: "His next 25 years of OKC radio starts Monday," the message reads. He's also addded a line to his biography noting he will return to Oklahoma City radio on Monday. As we reported on Friday, the station will introduce its new afternoon drive show host on Monday. Shannon's background includes work as an FM disc jockey in several states. In 1983, after a stop in Amarillo, he moved to Oklahoma City and joined KJ103FM (KJY0). His 7-year run there ended when he joined Classic Rock 107.7 KRXO, for eight years, where he evolved the mornings from a "more rock, less talk" format to a "no rock, all talk" show. The show, which was sometimes described as Rush Limbaugh meets Howard Stern, helped take the struggling station to number one in the market, and the highest rated classic rock station (percentage of audience) in the United States. In 1998, The Sports Animal 104.9/640am, hired Shannon to do a "man show" for the sports station.
In October of 2000, he was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, (CLL) a slowly progressing form of the disease of the blood. It responded to treatments and was in remission until earlier this year; he now is undergoing chemotherapy again.
Shannon returned to Oklahoma City after a stint doing mornings on 50,000 watt AM news/talk WLAC in Nashville and then joined WKY as the morning show host, a slot he held for three years until the station flipped its format.
Labels: KTOK, Mark Shannon
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