Scott Thrower
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Scott Thrower is an American radio personality. He was born on November 25, 1959, in Sacramento, CA. In 1975, at the age of 15, Thrower got his first radio job in Salem, OR at KGAY, an AM country station.
Thrower headed to Phoenix, AZ in 1980 to do evenings at Top 40 KOPA-FM, but lasted only a year before crossing town to work at KZZP-FM. He said later that KZZP's morning personality, Jonathon Brandmeier, was someone with whom he wanted to work very much.
In 1983, Thrower got his chance to do a morning radio show at KKFM in Colorado Springs, and did well as a solo act, but his most notable work came alongside Rick Rumble. The pair were hired in the late 1980's by KMPZ/Memphis to do mornings. They pulled stunts such as using grass seed to plant their station's logo in the lawn of their main competitor. They were suspended for several days without pay for reading excerpts from an article in 'Penthouse' magazine on their show. They broadcast the private, secret studio phone number of their main competitor and encouraged listeners to call it and demand tickets to see Whitney Houston in concert.
Within 18 months, they accepted an offer to do mornings at Philadelphia's WEGX. Due to family circumstances, however, Thrower relocated within a year to Phoenix, where he was teamed on KKFR with tv star Danny Bonaduce in mornings. The show did well during it's short run. Bonaduce was arrested for assaulting a transsexual prostitute, and was immediately released by the station. Thrower was later let go to make way for morning man Dave Ryan. In mid 1992, Thrower reunited with Rick Rumble on San Diego's KCLX.
Thrower went on to work mornings at Z100/Portland, and later, KBIG/Los Angeles, and country giant KMLE/Phoenix.
He is known in the radio industry as having a deep voice, a hearty laugh and solid interviewing skills. He has a website: [1] Thrower has publicly acknowledged that he spent about 10 years fighting clinical depression, but finally overcame it with physical exercise and medication.
He spent nearly 7 years in morning drive at KURB/Little Rock before being fired over a contract dispute. Thrower is currently doing fill-in work at WMC-FM/Memphis. He is married and has an adult son, Joshua Thrower.
