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12/2: Former 99Xers Fred Toucher, Rich Shertenlieb, Crash Clark get morning gig in Boston
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
After 2.5 years in Boston at WBCN-FM in the afternoons, former 99Xers Fred Toucher, Rich Shertenlieb and Crash Clark have been rewarded with the morning show after syndicated Opie & Anthony were dumped.
“I’m completely surprised,” Toucher said by phone Monday. He noted the show is No. 2 in Boston among me 18 to 44. He noted that he’s loving Boston and the audience and “We get to do the show we couldn’t do in Atlanta.” The morning show starts Tuesday from 6 to 10 a.m.
Congrats guys. Atlanta isn’t quite the same without y’all. (Toucher spent several years at 99X, including 2.5 years as morning host. Shertenlieb worked a bunch of years there, too. Crash was there more than a decade.)
-Glenn Beck will debut on Fox News January 19 at 5 p.m., just in time for the new presidency. He is also heard locally from 9 to noon at WGST-AM and made a name for himself at CNN Headline News for a couple of years.
-Danielle Knox is the new weekend anchor at WGCL-TV, replacing Mike Moore, who is now a full-time reporter. Knox has worked in Monroe, La., Hartford, Ct. and south Florida. She also co-hosts “The Balancing Act,” a Lifetime Television weekday morning show which focuses on women’s issues. The show airs every day at 7 a.m. right before Atlanta-based “Get Married.”
Comments
By Chutney
December 2, 2008 6:48 AM | Link to this
Congrats guys…nice success story. Wish it would happen to me.
By Ted Kennedy
December 2, 2008 7:18 AM | Link to this
three of those guys need to cut back on the clam chowder.
By Bob
December 2, 2008 11:39 AM | Link to this
I always liked their show. Congrats to them. I wish that they would go to Sirius/XM. Those guys could put on a great show there!!
By Jason from Atlanta
December 2, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this
Catch them via internet at wbcn.com. Tard out
By bizezgrrrl
December 2, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this
Man, that was the funniest morning show team ever … Atlanta blew it when they let Toucher go.
By RK
December 2, 2008 11:45 AM | Link to this
O&A dumped in Boston? Ouch.
By TRG
December 2, 2008 11:45 AM | Link to this
Good Bye and good riddance, “The Regular Guys Rule”
By Jimmy Baron
December 2, 2008 11:45 AM | Link to this
And this has to do with Atlanta in what way?
They had a horrible morning show here.
By C
December 2, 2008 12:02 PM | Link to this
Congrats to the guys! I have been listening to them via the web stream for the past six months or so and the show is great. They refrence Atlanta a lot which makes me think they really miss it here. Fast, edgy, funny. It definatly would of NEVER have flown in Atlanta’s female driven market though. Syndication and XM/Serius is next for T&R.
By Glenn
December 2, 2008 12:03 PM | Link to this
nice to see Beck heading to a real network. I don’t know how he handled living in The Lair for the last couple of years.
By Sus
December 2, 2008 12:06 PM | Link to this
Glad to see them go. Rich was funny but Crash is useless and Toucher got fat.
By Lil D
December 2, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this
Congrats to these guys .. I am sure it is well deserved. I miss having these guys on Atlanta radio !!
By Will
December 2, 2008 12:37 PM | Link to this
Who cares?
By Pup
December 2, 2008 12:42 PM | Link to this
I don’t know C and Bob - I PAY for Sirius/XM so I don’t have to listen to “morning shows”.
By Doug
December 2, 2008 12:46 PM | Link to this
Toucher’s morning show was the best thing on Atlanta radio from 03-05. Boston is a great market for them - less uptight and accepting of edgy humor than Atlanta. If they could diversify the show from a local approach, they would be a great replacement for Bubba the Love Sponge on Howard 101 on Sirius/XM.
By shakazulu
December 2, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this
Is 97.1 The River still new????
By Shaking Head
December 2, 2008 12:51 PM | Link to this
Who cares about 99X? That’s history. If you’re going to write about history, write about Georgia native Bill Drake who dramatically impacted radio in the 60’s and 70’s. Funny, the LA & NY Times have in depth articles on his death, but the AJC doesn’t have one word about it. You’re clueless.
By Barnes
December 2, 2008 12:53 PM | Link to this
I’m still upset with him for making fun of my backne.
By Bob
December 2, 2008 12:53 PM | Link to this
I hear you Pup, but I do listen to Howard and Bubba the Love Sponge. Now that is looks like Bubba will be gone, I think they could do a decent job filling in. I think that uncensored, those guys are creative enough to do some great things. By the way…O&A should have been gone a long time ago. That is the worst show ever from a team that does nothing but hack other people’s stuff.
By Toucherisgay
December 2, 2008 1:22 PM | Link to this
I thought Crash was dead. I give the morning show 18 months. Toucher can’t survive without Wally.
By the finger
December 2, 2008 1:38 PM | Link to this
*By Barnes @ 12:53 PM I’m still upset with him for making fun of my backne. *
histerical . i am LOL. LMAOROF. hoo hoo. this is a fine example of why you work in atlanta.
can you also get your cankles in this bit?
By Leslie
December 2, 2008 1:56 PM | Link to this
I used to be relevant in Atlanta, then I got rid of Toucher, Jimmy, and Crash and my show tanked because, as it turns out, they listened to the show for them. And nobody liked me.
By C
December 2, 2008 1:58 PM | Link to this
Pup..I subscribe to XM as well, but a funny and entertaining radio show is a funny and entertaining radio show. Get off your high horse. You are part of the reason Atlanta will never be a quality radio market ever again.
By Jimbo
December 2, 2008 2:06 PM | Link to this
I agree with Doug…the guys would be a great replacement for Bubba on Howard 101.
The only thing I miss about FM radio is listening to Toucher make a fool out of himself on a regular basis.
They would be a perfect fit for SiriusXM!!
By MIke
December 2, 2008 2:10 PM | Link to this
99x sucked and so do all of the people who listened to it. Im so glad its gone. Enjoy the show Boston!
By C.M. Thornton, III
December 2, 2008 2:10 PM | Link to this
Who were those guys, again?
By Sam P
December 2, 2008 2:57 PM | Link to this
By Leslie
I used to be relevant in Atlanta, then I got rid of Toucher, Jimmy, and Crash and my show tanked because, as it turns out, they listened to the show for them. And nobody liked me.LMAO!! No Atlanta morning show has matched the old 99x crew.
By ATL nation-wide
December 2, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this
If I EVER had to listen to Fred Toucher and his pompous, negative, miserable commentary for even 5 more minutes I’d probably shoot myself! That guy alone was the sole reason I got fed up with morning shows and switched to sirius a few years back. Don’t get me wrong, there are lot’s of shows I like and don’t like but NEVER have I encountered such a monumental prick on radio air waves in my life… and I’ve lived all over the nation!
By niiiice!!!
December 2, 2008 3:37 PM | Link to this
Wow….that Danielle is smooookin’. wonder if she can turn around, bend down and touch her toes whoa! I be slappindatazz. Yowza boss
By Barack Obama
December 2, 2008 4:08 PM | Link to this
Keep hope alive guys!
By jpd
December 2, 2008 4:10 PM | Link to this
i heard them about 2 years ago when i was in boston for a week. it was so odd hearing familiar voices in a different town. glad it has worked out for them.
By Gary
December 2, 2008 4:19 PM | Link to this
Best morning show Atlanta ever had. Bought XM soon after they left because the rest of the shows around here are just awful.
By Da Mick
December 2, 2008 4:21 PM | Link to this
Still trying to understand how Radio and TV station operations and people’s job movements constitue legitmate mainstream news. While the AJC continues to go down in flames in slow motion, they maintain the strangest features as worthy, while cost-cutting seemingly important things. If this paper is a true reflection of this city, Atlanta is comprised of the lowest-common denominator.
Not to worry though Rodney, Idol will be back soon, and you can go on frothing about some really important world developments.
By Jason
December 2, 2008 5:49 PM | Link to this
This is a short blurb just letting people know whats up with former media people in Atlanta. How does that not constitute legitimate mainstream news? World news can be found in the “Nation/World” section you retarded pi$$-ant
By The Educator
December 2, 2008 8:03 PM | Link to this
Bill Drake was born and raised near Donalsonville; he came to ATL in the late ’50s, where he changed the old WBGE/1340 into WAKE, claiming the local Top 40 Rock crown until around 1962, when the much stronger signals of WPLO/590 and WQXI/790 (along with WFOM/1230 in Marietta) blew ‘AKE out of the water. WAKE’s owner, Bartell Broadcasting, moved the successful Drake out to San Francisco, where he found much more notable success programming KYA/1260. (In late ‘64, WAKE became the great Soul station WIGO, nowadays known as all-Sports WALR/1340.) Drake went on to KHJ/930 in Los Angeles, where he put the finishing touches on the “Boss Radio” format that dominated the numbers there, as well as on co-owned RKO stations in Boston, New York, San Francisco (on KYA’s competitor KFRC), and Detroit-Windsor (on CKLW, a signal that made it into parts of the ATL area at night). He teamed up with Gene Chenault, to form Drake-Chenault Enterprises, which provided program material to stations around the world for years. (Drake’s first product heard locally after leaving town was, “The History of Rock And Roll”, aired over the course of several weekends in late 1969 over the old WIIN/970, and voiced by the late great “Drake” jock Robert W. Morgan, a sorely-missed personal friend of mine, and one helluva human being.) Drake passed away from Lung Cancer this past weekend, in Los Angeles, at age 71. There, I’ve done the AJC’s job for them. I’d be writing about Radio for a living, but my looks and my old car p** off too many of the insecure littleweenies who rule the world.
By Joey Mills
December 2, 2008 9:03 PM | Link to this
I been telling everyone that Toucher and Rich will be going syndicated as soon as I heard they were going to WBCN. The show is true entertainment. Congrats Toucher, Rich, and Adolpho. I plan on seeing you at WXRK-FM NYC real soon.
By Calandro
December 3, 2008 7:51 AM | Link to this
Does everyone know I use to work for them? They fired me just like TRGays did. Iowa football ‘09 baby!
By Harrison
December 3, 2008 3:59 PM | Link to this
I echo earlier comments about WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH ATLANTA RADIO??? Rodney try reporting on something happening in the city we all live in, otherwise you might be the AJC’s next cutback!…
By The Other JB
December 4, 2008 10:17 AM | Link to this
Congrats to Toucher and those other 2 guys riding his coattails.
This has to do with Atlanta because we had a first class young talent, and the city didn’t appreciate what they had from radio management on down to the AJC. Rodney Ho has written 10-times more about Toucher since he left than he did while his show was on the air here. What is up with that? Maybe he wasn’t letting Rodney blow him like The Regular Guys do.
By Phredphan
December 4, 2008 11:54 AM | Link to this
I’m so over this show. It seems so juvenile now.
By Wildnfreeone
December 4, 2008 1:06 PM | Link to this
I’m glad Fred, Rich, and Crash are doing well. Despite what the haters say, 99X lost a gem when Fred left. Much respect fella’s, Rock on Freaky Bro!!!
By IYH
December 5, 2008 9:08 PM | Link to this
just nother example of how bad cumlus fu**ed up. u killed 99x for what. last in ratings? cool for toucher and crash. sux for u.
By Kimmy P
December 15, 2008 5:26 PM | Link to this
If only they could be syndicated and come back to Atlanta. This radio in this town has turned me into a Sirius subscriber.