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10 Questions with ... Doug Griffin
July 5, 2022
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1. Share a moment in your career that you’ll always remember.
Back in the day when I was doing mornings at WAY FM delirious had a new record and the label sent me and several other morning shows to London for a couple of days, to do our show “Live from London”. What an incredible and awesome trip that was. In addition to interviewing delirious from their home offices at furious records, the label sent over Tammy Trent, Alisa from ZOEgirl and John from Switchfoot so that we would always be able to interview an artist from the label … Special thanks to the amazing Grant Hubbard who was able to score me a ticket to see my favorite stage play The Phantom of the Opera in London – something I’ll never forget
2. If you weren’t working in radio what else do you think you’d do?
I’d probably be doing full-time what has been a part-time gig my entire radio career and that is mobile music. Since 1988 I have been a wedding and party DJ, I enjoy crafting the flow of events, interacting with people and being a part of their celebrations. www.DJDougGriffin.com
3. Some great advice you've received is…
I’ll never forget when David Pierce first came to K-LOVE and I worked with him on The Morning Show, he counseled me to always pour into myself, especially spiritually so that I would always have something to give the listeners, as well as my family
4. How do you continue learning and growing?
Staying connected on forums and Facebook groups, interacting and swapping notes with colleagues and most recently hiring a personal coach to do weekly air check sessions with me. This has been the best investment I’ve made in my career and is making a huge difference for me personally and professionally. Thank you Todd Stach with beyond 615
5. What’s one thing you wish you’d known about radio when you first started?
I grew up listening to old time radio shows, and played radio in my room. As a teen I remember listening to the big 610 KFRC out of San Francisco and tracking the top 10 countdown on binder paper every week (what a nerd) … I wish I had known in my teen years that a career in radio was possible, it wasn’t until I went to college at San Jose State and connected with the college station that I realized you could do this for a living
6. Tell us about someone who you really respect and why?
Gary Scott Thomas was the host when I was “Jungle Doug” his sidekick for six years at San Jose country station KRTY. I learned a lot from Gary and unlike so many of the other DJs I had worked with over the years in San Francisco Gary’s was/is very team oriented. He allowed me to express myself and grow as a radio talent and encouraged me and taught me a lot in the six years that we were together, and even to this day we are still very connected.
7. What’s something about you that would surprise most people?
That I had a season on the radio at KSOL in San Francisco where I was Doug EEE Fresh, the traffic rapper. The only white guy on an all black station. At the time, rap was emerging and I put together (in hindsight-pretty lame) rhymes as I reported on traffic in the Bay Area. Once I started, every traffic report rhymed. Everyone always asks for an example, so here’s one I remember
Overturned bender
now you don’t be picky
it’s northbound 280 and it’s happening near Hickey
and another crash it’s time to tell you
We’re talking North 280 ramp to westbound 92
Now I better slow down on my rapping spree
And be thanking my sponsor ---Martin Lawrence gallery8. What’s your favorite room at home and why?
The living room - a place to unwind, hang out with my wife Sheryl and play tug-of-war with our six month old Shichon puppy- Jack
9. Finish this sentence: My day doesn’t start properly until I...
Hit the snooze button a few times; stop the puppy from licking my face off and get up and moving.
10. What do you to unwind and chill?
I still love to listen to old time radio shows, Dragnet, Lights Out, Suspense, the Whistler, and of course the CBS radio Mystery Theater from the 1970s. I also have an amazing app that allows me to cloud record German language television shows so that I can keep up with my German. I was an exchange student my senior year in high school and still speak fluent in German.
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