Remember a few days ago the Phoenix DJ who harrassed Kile's wife? http://bbs.clutchcity.net/php3/showthread.php?s=&threadid=42341 Well now he's unemployed and looking for a job: http://espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs2002/s/2002/1007/1442685.html <b>Duran's stunt angered Cards, cost him his job</b> <i> PHOENIX -- The disc jockey who made an on-air prank call to the widow of St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Darryl Kile was fired, the radio station announced Monday. KUPD-FM morning radio personality Beau Duran called Flynn Kile at her hotel and asked if she had a date to last Thursday's playoff game. The stunt outraged St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa and prompted an apology from the Arizona Diamondbacks. KUPD suspended Duran last week, but in a written statement Monday, general manager Chuck Artigue said Duran was fired. In the statement released by the station, Duran said, ''I am truly sorry for having offended Mrs. Kile and the Cardinals organization.'' Kile, a starting pitcher for the Cardinals, died from blocked coronary arteries in June while in Chicago for a game. </i> Bye-bye loser, next time try not to get your jollies off harrassing a widow and you might keep your job a little longer.
In the wake of the Opie and Anthony scandal, I wonder what kind of pressure radio stations are getting from the FCC? The station may have feared some kind of FCC repremand. Anyway...I'm glad the jackass got what he had coming to him.
I was under the impression that he was the main guy, but I was wrong. Found this on the web in one of those "Best Of" weekly newspapers: "DJ John Holmberg, along with his sidekicks, Brady Bogen and Beau Duran, have more or less saved KUPD from its longtime creep toward becoming WKRP. Luckily for listeners, KUPD's management got bored with Dave Pratt too. In early September, they replaced him with the relatively young, inexperienced DJ from the floundering sort-of-alt-rock station The Zone. The show started slowly thanks to 9/11 and KUPD's mistake of teaming Holmberg with a doormat of a Hooters girl for a sidekick. But as the new team jelled, and as laughing at edgy, dark, gloriously twisted jokes became okay again, the Morning Sickness took off. Now Holmberg and crew are the second-highest-rated morning show in Phoenix behind Howard Stern. And their numbers have been just as good as, and sometimes better than, Pratt's, who had 20 years to build his audience. Now Holmberg just needs to overcome Stern. It should happen. Day in, day out, Holmberg puts on a much better show." _______________ It seems to me the main guy, this John Holmberg, should take some heat as well. It is his show. Also, this Duran guy was only in his early 20's. Here's a column from a few days ago in the Arizona Republic: "There seem to be a few people a mite irritated at one of our morning radio rock jocks. I can't imagine why. People are outraged, people are appalled, people are calling for his job and his head, such as it is. They seem to think that he not only embarrassed himself but also all of Arizona when he dialed up the widow of St. Louis pitcher Darryl Kile for a little on-air entertainment and asked her if she had a date for Thursday's game. Classy fellow. But, really, what do you expect from a guy named Beau, an overinflated, overindulged and clearly overrated jerk who lists among his likes on the radio station's Web site as "easy women, alcohol, (something no decent newspaper would print) and p*rnography"? It's not his behavior that so shocks. He's just one more in an army of anonymous on-air idiots who will do anything to grab a rating point. Which, from what I can tell, he desperately needs. No, it's not Beau whose behavior stuns me. It's the people who employ Beau and boys like him. The bosses, who have apparently decided that there is no line anymore in radio and no shame either. How is it that they escape any responsibility? These are the guys, after all, who initially decreed that while Beau Duran's stunt on KUPD was "in terribly bad taste," he wouldn't face any disciplinary action. Chuck Artigue, market manager for the Sandusky Group, which owns the station and five others in town, told reporter Jim Gintonio on Thursday that the call to Flynn Kile during the aptly named Morning Sickness show was just "guys being guys." Actually, it was guys being jerks. It was guys being morons. And, worse, it was guys being cruel. Here the woman is in Phoenix, joining the Cardinals for the first time since her 33-year-old husband's sudden death three months ago, to support the team in its playoff bid. That's got to be painful in ways I can't even imagine. To see where your husband should be standing. To know that his life is over and that yours will never be the same. To feel all of that and to come anyway. And what does she get? Beau Duran. Clearly, life ain't fair. I tried to reach Duran on Friday to ask him what (or whether) he was thinking and maybe to give him a few pointers on a few other victims he can harass during his morning gab fest. Handy as he is with a phone, you'd think he'd be easy to reach. But he wasn't. Unlike Flynn Kile, I guess he's fortunate enough to have someone screening out annoying phone calls. By midday Friday, after the story had gone nationwide and at least one advertiser had gone ballistic, KUPD posted an apology on its Web site, saying it was "truly amazed on how this turned into a media circus." Then Artigue announced Friday afternoon that Duran had been suspended for a week. "He is off the air," he told Gintonio. "We will talk again a week from today to find out if he in fact has had a chance to reflect on what he did and his error in judgment." Artigue didn't return my call to reflect on the station's error in judgment. Somebody hired this 22-year-old moron as an "on-air talent." Somebody decided that it would be great for Phoenix to wake up in the morning with a guy who lists his hobbies as "imbibing, finding easy women . . . and p*rn (both enjoying and producing)." Somebody at KUPD and at plenty of other stations in plenty of other cities set a bar that is so low anymore that you have to dig for it. And yet time and again those people escape unscathed while all the world calls for Beau on a platter."
I can't believe it took this long to fire even ONE of the low-lifes involved. It's getting more and more difficult to listen to radio, at least for me. Unless it's music (and I like many different kinds) or something like NPR or the BBC, I'm not too interested. Stuff like this reminds me of why.
I`m glad that he lost his job although I am shocked that it took so long. His boss looks pretty stupid by some of the comments he made, {"Guys being guys"} and could have handled this is a more expeditious manner. In my opinion he should get the ax also
Well, I blame this child's mother, clearly! If she had stayed home with little Beau, taught him right from wrong, given him a little discipline, then he wouldn't be acting out like this. It's very simple, and that's why I'm my kids' Mom, first and last.
Wha-huh? I blacked out last night, and when I came to ... okay, okay. I will tell Dr. Laura to chill, to disappear. I just hope she listens to me.
If Dr. Laura and Dr. Phil got into a knife fight, who would win? a) Dr. Laura b) Dr. Phil c) Humanity
I'm still relatively new to all this, but I think this thread has made the single largest topic shift I've ever seen. Phoenix DJ fired ===> 3-way knife fight with Orenthal and Dr.'s Phil and Laura.
oooops....I'm a baaaaaad boy. So to get back on topic...I sure am glad that the Phoenix radio station fired that assclown.
