The Smiley Morning Show

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The Smiley Morning Show
Genre	Entertainment, Talk, Music
Running time	Mon - Fri, 5 - 10 a.m. (EST)
Country	United States
Home station	WZPL, 99.5 FM
Starring	Dave Smiley Kari "K.J." Johll
Producers	Senior Producer Brian Moore/ "B-Moore" Producer Chris Van Sickle/ "Weedman"
Air dates	2002 to
Website http://www.wzpl.com

The Smiley Morning Show is an award-winning radio program on radio station WZPL (99.5 FM - an Entercom Communications station) in Indianapolis, Indiana.

The show is hosted by 2006 and 2007 NUVO magazine "Best Radio Personality"^[1] Dave Smiley and is co-hosted by Kari "K.J." Johll. They are regularly joined by senior producer Brian Moore, aka "B-Moore" and producer Chris Van Sickle, aka "Weedman," along with "Traffic Goddess" Mindy Winkler and meteorologist Paul Poteet (from WRTV 6)

The show is a talk/entertainment morning show that includes significant interaction with listeners. Each day, there are usually several guests on the show, including many comedians, celebrities, and local personalities.

1 Show Awards and Professional Recognitions
2 Daily Segments
3 Weekly Segments/Themes
4 Show Personalities
5 Games, Contests, and Listener Participation
- 5.1 Games in Development
6 Frequent Guests
7 Listener Events
8 References

[edit] Show Awards and Professional Recognitions

Best Radio Personality, Dave Smiley (NUVO magazine - 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)^[2]
Best Morning Radio Show, The Smiley Morning Show (NUVO magazine - 2003, 2007)^[3]
Best Traffic Reporter, Mindy Winkler (NUVO magazine - 2006, 2007)^[4]
Best Male Radio Personality, Dave Smiley (Indianapolis Woman - 2004)^[5]
Best Local Morning Show, Smiley Morning Show (Friday Morning Quarterback - FMQB Leaders 2006 AC/Hot AC- 2006)^[6]

[edit] Daily Segments

Top Three Things You Need to Know
Hollywood News
Smiley's Sucky Sports Report
Smiley's Word-of-the-Day
The Topic
Whatever it Takes

[edit] Weekly Segments/Themes

Teen Tuesday
Whatever-You-Want-Wednesday
Therapy Thursday
No-Refusal Friday and Free Plug Friday along with the Swap Meet

[edit] Show Personalities

[edit] Dave Smiley

The Host and energy of the show, Smiley combines bumbling and often self-depricating radio antics with his skill as a disc jockey.
Originally from Pella, Iowa where he started in radio as a teen at Valley High School's KWDM radio station broadcasting to literally dozens of students in the parking lot and student center, Smiley moved to the Indianapolis area in May of 2002 after stints in New York, San Diego, California and Phoenix, Arizona.

[edit] K.J.

Originally an unintended sidekick, Kari Johll now acts as the show's comedic straight-woman co-host. In addition to her strait-laced bantering, she handles the Hollywood News and "Top Three Things You Need To Know" news segments.
Also hosts a website and segment entitled "K.J.'s Strays", dedicated to helping stray cats.
K.J. hails from Wisconsin and is a fan of cheese and the Green Bay Packers.

[edit] Paul Poteet and Mindy Winkler

Both spend considerable time on-air outside of reporting weather and traffic respectively.
Paul Poteet serves as a vast resource of musical knowledge and perpetual impressions of well-known DJ, Casey Kasem.
Mindy Winkler collects a hate list of odd, and at times unbelievable, objects that are making her mad.

[edit] Games, Contests, and Listener Participation

Included in regular programming are various participation games for listeners (past and present both listed).

Fact or Bullcrap
- Listeners call "fact" or "bullcrap" on trivia - get three out of five right to win a prize
All for the Nookie
- Listeners convince their spouse to leave work and have sex - succeed for a prize
Gas or No Gas
- based on NBC's Deal or No Deal (US game show), listeners could win free gas
Meal or No Meal
- based on NBC's Deal or No Deal, listeners could win free Subway (restaurant) sandwiches
Battle of the Burbs
- an epic battle pitting Indianapolis suburbs in a test of hometown trivia
Stop-a-Cop
- listeners have to find a police officer, stop him, and get him on the phone with the station
Weigh-in-Wednesday
- Smiley and Chris "Weedman" Van Sickle dieted for for a few months by counting calories and/or using diet pills.
  - Smiley invented the One Less Diet, a diet in which the person consumes one less drink, one less bite of food, one less slice of pizza - whatever they choose.
- Smiley was forced to walk around a local lake wearing only his boxer shorts and a sandwich board sign while listeners threw tomatoes at him.
Listener Numbers
- Listeners call in to receive an official listener number.
The Amazing Smiley
- Listeners call in and honk their car horn. If Smiley fails to correctly guess the year, make and model of your car, the listener wins $100.

[edit] Games in Development

A new game, yet to be played, is entitled: "Hoe or Housewife"

[edit] Frequent Guests

Jared Fogle (Subway Jared)
Dallas Clark (Indianapolis Colts Tight End)
Carlos Diaz (former ZPL employee and current Extra (TV series) correspondent)
Carl Brizzi (Marion Co. Prosecutor)
Sexy Dave (from Greenwood)
"Peyton Manning" (Indianapolis Colts Quarterback)
- Peyton Manning has never actually called in, despite the segment "Waitin' for Peyton to Call"
Listener Jim (longtime listener)
Hal Sparks (Comedian)
Mitch Daniels (Current Governor of the State of Indiana)
Cheri Daniels (Governor's wife and occasional guest DJ)

[edit] Listener Events

The Smiley Morning Show is well known for hosting concerts and listener-focused events. Some events include, but not limited to are:

The Big Hook Up
Smiley's Adult Prom
Listener Parties
Live Christmas Movie Interprative Readings
- Most recently, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation was performed at Morty's Comedy Joint

Other events held by WZPL include:
- Uncle Sam Jam
- Boo Bash
- Jingle Jam
- Concerts

[edit] References

Official Site

Categories: American radio programs