My wife worked in radio for 20 years. Back in the day, no one used their real name. Who needed the phone calls at 2 AM?
So, the jocks and then talk show hosts used stage names. Most of the time they used a two first names, for example:
Bill Richards
Mark Williams
Dave Mitchell
And the funny thing is that some jocks used one name in a market, and another name in another market. Or they would come back to a previous market and use another name.
When we would drive from New England to Florida, I was amazed at the number of voices my wife could pick out...and then tell me the three or four names they had gone by.
It seems more folks are using their real names now. But on your local stations, listen for this. Some of the old timers are still doing it.
>> the jocks and then talk show hosts used stage names <<
Yep! Who could ever forget those great spinners of the 45 RPM disk, Rusty Sharpe and Jeff Christie?