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11/26: 99x’s Leslie Fram wins lifetime achievement AIR award
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Leslie Fram, the veteran program director and morning co-host at 99X, is going to receive a lifetime achievement award Thursday at the Achievement in Radio Awards on behalf of the March of Dimes, an annual event since 1996. Jimmy Baron, who left 99X last year and is now executive producing a couple of possible TV shows, will introducing her on the podium.
Fram is the first woman to receive the award. Past recipients include Braves announcer Skip Caray, voice of the Dawgs Larry Munson, Steve Goss (formerly of Peach, now at WABE-FM) and morning host Rhubarb Jones of Eagle 106.7.
The annual AIR Awards, held this year at the Intercontinental Hotel in Buckhead Thursday Nov. 29, is a great place to rub shoulders with radio personalities. V-103’s Ryan Cameron typically oversees the silent auction and folks like Dave FM’s Mara Davis, 790/The Zone’s Steak Shapiro and Grown Folks’ Si-Man regularly show up. Tickets are $125 apiece and can be purchased here..
Employees at each radio station votes for that station’s favorite personality, a practice begun last year. The March of Dimes used to have an impartial judge’s panel outside of Atlanta listen to tapes and vote for best personalities but that didn’t always work out so well. Some stations with good shows didn’t bother submitting tapes and a five-minute tape doesn’t necessarily portray a show’s true essence. In fact, Peach’s Gene & Julie (remember them?) once won for best morning show and that show lasted all of two years. In its early years, the event would feature some jocks trash talking up on the dais, but the March of Dimes clamped down on that in recent years.
The cocktail hour (or actually 90 minutes) runs from 5:30 p.m. to 7. Then it’s dinner at 7, followed by an 8:30 p.m. after party. Usually, the event has a celebrity emcee such as Jeff Foxworthy, Brett Butler, Mo Rocca or Greg Gumbel but as of Monday, the group is still trying to finalize a big name. I’ll update this entry when or if they get that person.
Meanwhile, B98.5’s Kelly & Alpha are holding a “Can-nah Montana” giveaway. If you go to the the Publix by 6 p.m. at 9925 Haynes Bridge Road in Alpharetta and donate some canned goods (benefiting the Feed the Hungry Foundation), you’ll have a chance to win four tickets to the sold-out Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus concert Wednesday at Gwinnett Arena. Scalpers are having a field day with that concert and some seats are selling for $400-plus per ticket on eBay. (Will Gara at B98.5 purchased the tickets at cost from a friend.)
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By Bud
November 26, 2007 10:34 AM | Link to this
Hurray for Skeletor!!!
By Hud
November 26, 2007 10:37 AM | Link to this
Please change the pic. I’m going to have nightmares the rest of the week!
By JD
November 26, 2007 11:02 AM | Link to this
Would someone please give her a sandwich?!
By Joey Mills
November 26, 2007 11:17 AM | Link to this
Congrats Leslie!!! You have earned this award.
By Sweet
November 26, 2007 11:30 AM | Link to this
Bud and JD:
CLASSIC!!
Keep up the good work!!
By the truth
November 26, 2007 11:36 AM | Link to this
Congrats, now cover your’e face, we got children eating.
By william
November 26, 2007 11:42 AM | Link to this
Pass the eye bleach! Oh, that is unfortunate.
By Sean Demery
November 26, 2007 11:45 AM | Link to this
Welcome to my life. Kill me now.
By rob
November 26, 2007 11:46 AM | Link to this
Who’s ass did she fall out of?
By Lanny Fram
November 26, 2007 11:57 AM | Link to this
Way to accept a personal award while you drive 99x to historic lows. The staff appreciates you costing us our jobs and our careers in radio doing whatever it take for you to get yours.
By AlohaVampire
November 26, 2007 12:06 PM | Link to this
Please…. 99X ??? huh??
Does anyone in this town listen to that miserable station?
Her personality is dull and that picture was creepy.
Why should anyone care about her, that station or this event?
Slow news day I guess……
By Wanny Lest
November 26, 2007 12:24 PM | Link to this
Everybody leave my little moneymaker alone!
By Santa Clause
November 26, 2007 1:05 PM | Link to this
Congrats, Girrrrl!!
Now eat a sandwich or some mashed potatoes.
Seriously, congrats on a well deserved honor.
And Lanny….feed that girl…you cheapskate!!
Golden Corral ain’t that pricey!!
By Chuck Deskins
November 26, 2007 1:47 PM | Link to this
Hey….an even worse choice would have been my partner in crime, Randall Bloomquist, moron extraordinaire at WGST.
By Thrash
November 26, 2007 2:39 PM | Link to this
I’ve seen prettier faces on iodine bottles!
By just some guy
November 26, 2007 2:59 PM | Link to this
Here’s an interesting idea. All of you (probably) ugly b******* who post comments making fun of Leslie Fram should post photos of yourselves so we can critique your appearance. Sounds like fun, huh?
By Santa Clause
November 26, 2007 3:04 PM | Link to this
Sounds like *just some guy * is her Husband.
Sorry Lanny!!
By JD
November 26, 2007 3:25 PM | Link to this
What’s w/the temper, Lanny?
By Lanny Fram
November 26, 2007 3:35 PM | Link to this
I’ve been drinking.
By just some guy
November 26, 2007 3:39 PM | Link to this
Maybe I am, in fact, Leslie Fram’s husband. Or maybe…….just maybe I’m “just some guy with a Leslie Fram fetish”. It’s still up in the air at this point.
By JD
November 26, 2007 4:41 PM | Link to this
A Leslie Fram fetish?! You poor thing, bless your heart!
By Lanny Fram
November 26, 2007 5:10 PM | Link to this
A Leslie Fram fetish is another way of saying necrophilia.
By Bubba from douglasville
November 26, 2007 5:45 PM | Link to this
It is more then ironic that this blog post follows one that reads Bones popular in Atlanta.
This woman looks like she has been dead for a year or so.
By just some guy
November 26, 2007 5:49 PM | Link to this
The necrophilia response was delightfully twisted. Thanks for a good laugh before I brave rush hour traffic.
By just some guy
November 26, 2007 5:56 PM | Link to this
“A Leslie Fram fetish?! You poor thing, bless your heart!”
It’s been tough. But my therapist says there is hope with the proper medication.
By Jeff
November 26, 2007 6:37 PM | Link to this
Some people look like they’ve been beat with the ugly stick. I think the whole tree fell on Fram.
By The other JB
November 27, 2007 9:44 AM | Link to this
I am not a big Fram fan myself, but 1) Give the lady her due, and 2) These posts are way over the top and should not be published in a public place like this, at least not with someone taking credit for the post. It’s irresponsible of the AJC to allow anonymous posting here. Yes its still a free country and a still a free internet for now, but if you require people to sign up (like other responsible public comment places like the NYTimes.com) people at least have to go on record and take some responsibility for what they say.
Otherwise this is nothing more than a big cyber wall full of graffiti cluttered and made unsightly by mean-spirited morons with simply nothing better to do.
I suspect if you followed most of these posts you could trace them back to one or two sources, namely 96.1 fans or employees. But whatever. I second the motion made above - all you ‘ugly’ alli-gators put your own pic on here and let us decide who’s got the face for radio. (And no - I am not associated with 99x in any way, save for being a former listener.)
By Nick
November 27, 2007 12:16 PM | Link to this
I guess you get a lifetime achievement for just surviving anymore
By Thrash
November 28, 2007 11:56 AM | Link to this
Just saw the ratings for Atlanta… 99x is a 1.5 share. Don’t we have 50w LPR AM stations playing Peruvian folk dance music 24/7 pulling a better share than that?
By Christopher Calandro
November 30, 2007 10:58 AM | Link to this
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Getting an AIR award is like getting a blow job from a whore; it’s cheap, it’s easy, and it doesn’t mean ANYTHING.
By Christopher Calandro
November 30, 2007 10:59 AM | Link to this
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Getting an AIR award is like getting a blow job from a whore; it’s cheap, it’s easy, and it doesn’t mean ANYTHING.