| Johnny Dare | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Johnathan Caprefoli |
| Born | August 27, 1968 Memphis, Tennessee, United States |
| Show | The Johnny Dare Morning Show |
| Station(s) | 98.9 The Rock |
| Time slot | Monday to Friday 6:00am - 10am |
| Style | Talk Drive time Morning zoo Shock jock |
| Country | United States |
| Website | [1] |
Johnny Dare (born Johnathan Caprefoli) is an American radio personality. He is host of The Johnny Dare Morning Show the morning show for 98.9 The Rock in Kansas City, Kansas. He is one of the station's more prominent figures, and hosts the station's annual concert festival, Rockfest, which has grown to become the biggest one day concert event in the country,
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Dare was born in Memphis, Tennessee on August 27, 1968. He began hosting The Johnny Dare and Murphy in the Morning Show on KQRC with Murphy Wells. In March 2004, Wells left the show for health reasons, and was replaced by reporter Carrie Coogan.[1] After Wells' departure, the show was renamed simply "The Johnny Dare Morning Show". Coogan left the show in September 2011 and after weeks of try outs for a new co-host was replaced by Jennifer Johnson in October 2011.
Others on the show include T-Bone, Jake The Phone Snake and Gregg Todt. Also featured on the show is station program director, Bob Edwards (referred to as "A-Hole Bob). Other regulars on the show include comedian Pat Dixon, as well as sports journalists Leif Lisec and Chris Gough of Metro Sports (Sports in Your Shorts). Other friends of the show are Jesse James Dupree of the band Jackyl, Brent Smith of the band Shinedown, comedians Jim Florentine and Don Jamieson of VH1 Classic's That Metal Show, actor/comedian David Koechner, Dennis Hof (owner of the World Famous Moonlite Bunny Ranch brothel), actor/comedian T.J. Miller, and comedian Lisa Lampanelli.
In 1996, Dare launched the Hope For The Holidays Campaign, helping individuals and families who aren't able to be helped by conventional charities. From providing groceries and Christmas trees to things as simple as donating a piano to a young musician, or a new television to a rest home, the campaign's motto "It's not a hand out...it's a Hand Up", eventually spawned the Hand Up Campaign, spreading the message year round.
Dare was voted Billboard Magazine's Radio Personality of the Year in 2000.
In 2009, Dare became the narrator for the truTV reality series Full Throttle Saloon.
Dare is the Honorary Chair for the annual Kansas City Bikers for Babies ride to benefit The March of Dimes. The Kansas City Bikers for Babies® began in 1995 with 130 riders raising $3,000. In 2010, 6,200 participants raised more than $715,000, bringing the 16-year event total to $5.1 million. Kansas City boasts the most successful Bikers for Babies® event in the country and largest charity ride in the Midwest.
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." Entercom further argued that the FCC's definition of indecency was "unconstitutionally vague and overbroad" citing Reno v. ACLU and Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition.[2] 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." Finally, the Federal Communications Commission denied Entercom's assertions of the unconstitutionality of its definition of indecency, stating in conclusion, "The constitutional validity of the Commission's indecency standard has been repeatedly affirmed by the courts" and that Ashcroft v. Free Speech Commission and Reno v. ACLU did not alter this conclusion.[3]
The FCC 'Notice of Apparent Liability For Forfeiture' dated December 22, 2004, asserts that the fines were assessed for four separate on-air incidents which occurred on April 4, April 29, May 2, and May 3, 2002.[4] The April 4 incident was in response to an on-air game of "Naked Twister" with local female contestants.[5] The April 29th Incident stemmed from and interview with pornographic film star Dave Cummings in which Cummings described the events of the "2002 Wildlife Productions Anal Contest" in graphic detail.[6] The incident on May 2 similarly stemmed from an interview with pornographic film star Ron Jeremy, particularly their discussion of Jeremy's ability to "self-fellate", and his graphic descriptions of sexual encounters with an obese woman.[7] The final incident specifically named in the FCC notice occurred on May 3, 2002 when Sunset Thomas, a pornographic actress, was "masturbated on-air to orgasm with a vibrator" with assistance from T-Bone.[8]