Johnny Dare
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Born in 1969, Johnny Dare is a Kansas City radio personality.
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[edit] Background
Johnny Dare, a drop-out of Olathe South High School in Olathe, Kansas, has been a popular morning radio personality since the early 1990s. His show, "The Johnny Dare Morning Show,"(Formerly the Johnny Dare and Murphy in the Morning Show) is hosted by KQRC 98.9 "The Rock," an Entercom station.
The show is co-hosted by WDAF-TV reporter Carrie Coogan. Coogan's naïvette is the perfect foil for Dare's more edgy wit. Coogan is also known for her affection toward wearing coats on a daily basis, even when indoors. In Fact, she often wears raincoats/trenchcoats even when the weather does not warrant a coat's use.
Others on the show include T-Bone, Jake Jake The Phone Snake and Gregg.
[edit] Trademarks and trivia
Johnny is known for his long hair, a raspy voice, his black clothing and love of Harley Davidson motorcycles. He also has a perverted sense of humor, and loves playing jokes. He also helped popularize "The Shocker" gesture and the word "Mouth Hug." Ron White uses "mouth hug" in his standup routine and gives Johnny credit for the phrase.
Johnny hosts a yearly concert in Kansas City called "RockFest."
He is an avid dog-lover, and had dogs growing up. His favorite dog by far was Elvis, a cattle dog, who was with him before he became a radio personality. When Elvis died, Johnny was devastated and talked about him on the air. A little over a year later, he adopted Barger, an australian shepherd mix puppy. Johnny often brings Barger into the studio.
He gave up a long-time habit of smoking, and shared his tribulations with his listeners.
Johnny started the "Hand-up" Foundation which helps needy families that can't be helped by conventional charities.
He was once chased out of a bar by a crossdressing cop at a crossdresser convention. The odd pair became friends after a few phone calls on the air. Becka the Cop came to Kansas City for the grand opening of "Johnny Dare's" the now-defunct nightclub.
[edit] Charities
Johnny is a huge supporter and Honorary Chairman of "Bikers for Babies" a charity motorcycle ride which raises money for the March of Dimes. In 2004, he helped raise $447,000, and $1,483,224 total in the history of the fundraising campaign. The Kansas City ride is the largest ride in the country for the March of Dimes.
[edit] Fines
In December 2004, the Federal Communications Commission proposed fines totaling $220,000 against Entercom Communications for alleged indecency violations during multiple broadcasts in April and May 2002 of the Morning Show on KQRC-FM in Kansas City, Kansas, and KFH-AM in Wichita, Kansas.
The FCC claimed that the material included repeated graphic and explicit sexual descriptions that were pandering, titillating or used to shock the audience. As justification for proposing the maximum fine, the Commission noted "the egregious nature of the violations and Entercom's history of prior indecent broadcasts."
The Commission's official Notice ran 28 pages-including 18 pages of transcripts for the four alleged violations.
The FCC rejected Entercom's contention that, because KQRC generally enjoys high ratings, "the contemporary community standards of the Kansas City listening community are such that the material is not patently offensive."
The Commission said that the notion of contemporary standards is not different in different regions of the country, but reflects "an average broadcast listener" and isn't tied to "any particular geographic area."
In addition, the FCC said that a station's popularity doesn't reflect acceptance of the broadcast material by the local community: "Whether particular material is actionably indecent does not turn on whether the station that broadcast it [or the program] happens to be popular in its particular market."
The fine was a result of Johnny hosting a game of naked twister on the air.
