Here's another installment in my Happy Birthday Steve posts. While Steve Katsos worked on his first TV show The Missing Tooth, he also had a radio show at Framingham State College (now Framingham State University)."Frequency Alterations," his WDJM show with John Cox, ran for an all-too-short time in his college career.
Before we cared about Howard Stern, a glorious proud few of us listened to Steve and John Cox late Wednesday nights. I was an all too brief guest a couple of times, but it was much better to listen in your dorm or down in the student newpaper office with friends and have no idea what was going to happen next. The show included Steve's impressions, on-the-spot skits, actual call-in guests (a rarity for a station that small and seemingly despised by everyone on-campus), musical guests, and special spots with a student who worked as a sex educator.
I still have the Gatepost article that promoted them just before John Cox graduated.
If you clicked on the article and read it, you may be wondering about the big controversy that the article alludes to. I won't get into the details. The long story is even dumber than you might think, and it is hard to believe how much this caused the late night halls of FSC's college center to be enveloped in anger and silence when said guest of their show said that dreaded word to said person who listened and said, "what the hell?" It wasn't even said by them, and all they did was try to make the segment funny again.
Luckily, we have a comic strip that ran in the Gatepost shortly after that crazy event. It's pretty close to how it happened. I had been a brief guest of the show that night just before it all went down. I crossed out all relevant names. Thankfully, the cartoonist didn't focus on anyone's likeness very much.
Brief aside: As a one-time WDJM DJ, it makes me proud to say we beat WBCN to playing "Detachable Penis" by King Missle. Except if we were really brave, we would have just said screw it and played their song "Martin Scorsese."
The comic "Reality Check" seems to be the only comic that came into being solely to stick up for and promote Steve Katsos. Cartoonist Rick Lawrence even penciled some of Steve's strips.
That's all I got for now, Steve.
Before we cared about Howard Stern, a glorious proud few of us listened to Steve and John Cox late Wednesday nights. I was an all too brief guest a couple of times, but it was much better to listen in your dorm or down in the student newpaper office with friends and have no idea what was going to happen next. The show included Steve's impressions, on-the-spot skits, actual call-in guests (a rarity for a station that small and seemingly despised by everyone on-campus), musical guests, and special spots with a student who worked as a sex educator.
I still have the Gatepost article that promoted them just before John Cox graduated.
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| Fame. Faaaaame! |
If you clicked on the article and read it, you may be wondering about the big controversy that the article alludes to. I won't get into the details. The long story is even dumber than you might think, and it is hard to believe how much this caused the late night halls of FSC's college center to be enveloped in anger and silence when said guest of their show said that dreaded word to said person who listened and said, "what the hell?" It wasn't even said by them, and all they did was try to make the segment funny again.
Luckily, we have a comic strip that ran in the Gatepost shortly after that crazy event. It's pretty close to how it happened. I had been a brief guest of the show that night just before it all went down. I crossed out all relevant names. Thankfully, the cartoonist didn't focus on anyone's likeness very much.
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| They really DID play "Detachable Penis" to try and lighten the mood. |
Brief aside: As a one-time WDJM DJ, it makes me proud to say we beat WBCN to playing "Detachable Penis" by King Missle. Except if we were really brave, we would have just said screw it and played their song "Martin Scorsese."
The comic "Reality Check" seems to be the only comic that came into being solely to stick up for and promote Steve Katsos. Cartoonist Rick Lawrence even penciled some of Steve's strips.
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| I always thought Rick did solid work. This strip needs to be a thing again. |
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