Coyote J Calhoun Gets Fired from Z102, Live On The Air, FULL UNEDITED AIRCHECK

Coyote J Calhoun was famous for his antics on Birmingham's 96ERC (WERC AM Birmingham, Alabama) in the mid to late1970's. The rest is Radio History. "In 1979, near the end of WERC's dominance and with the demise of AM Top 40 radio in sight, Coyote J resigned and left for Los Angeles to do stand up comedy and immerse himself in the neophyte punk/new wave scene. In 1982, after a short stay in Denver, Coyote J left the West Coast to head back south with a bevy of new wave in tow and began playing 'new music' throughout the southeast. Coyote took the specialty show gig at WAPI-FM Birmingham (95 Rock) and began spinning another generation's soundtrack: The Pretenders, A Flock Of Seagulls, Human League, Thomas Dolby, Duran Duran, U2, Talk Talk, The Cure, Wall Of Voodoo, Depeche Mode, Echo and The Bunnymen, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark among others. In 1983 Coyote was transferred to WABB-FM Mobile, the sister station of I-95 (Dittman), where he did afternoons on the CHR and his new music show for PD Leslie Fram (99X Atlanta); in 1983 Coyote won the 'Bobby Poe Air Personality of the Year' award presented to him by Nashville colleague Scott Shannon. In 1985 Coyote J landed the 7-midnight opening at WQUE-FM New Orleans. At 'Q-93' the dj debut an expanded version of his post punk program and began to use the name The Edge. In New Orleans Calhoun began incorporating dark wave, gothic, and Industrial to his new music play list. Q-93 flipped from CHR to urban in late 1986 and Coyote was cut loose. Coyote J found himself back in Birmingham in the spring of 1987, once again employed as a night-time screamer for a new personality-driven CHR, WZBQ, Z-102 (going up against the other Top 40 stations in town, I-95, as well as WKXX, KICKS 106). While at Z-102 in 1988, Coyote found himself in the middle of controversy once again due to him stunting Z-102 with a classic rock format, airing songs by Boston and Pink Floyd, culminating with Calhoun getting fired live on the air. Before it was over Coyote was being escorted out of the building by police officers from the Tuscaloosa Police Department who heard the ruckus live on-air and rushed to the station while the manager of Z-102, Steve Russell, and Coyote J began fighting over the microphone, which Coyote refused multiple times to turn off." -- Wikipedia.