See Ya!

Wondering what happened to longtime Houston radio icon Sam Malone, most recently of Mix 96.5? Yeah, we really weren't either, but apparently some people were (we suspect they also listen to a lot of Nickelback and Creed).

Mike McGuff has an insightful interview with the DJ today, in which Malone discusses the abrupt and unexpected manner of his termination from the radio station as well as his views on the evolving nature of the industry itself:

There's a lot of uncertainties in accounting, a lot of uncertainties in sales, computer sales, a lot of uncertainties in retail, you know, automotive. But, nobody ever walks in and changes a Chevrolet into a plane. You know what I'm saying? Let's make planes today!

Choice quotes from the interview reveal that Sam Malone and his longtime on-air partner, Maria Todd, disliked each other intensely at first before eventually becoming the city's most recognized and entertaining morning radio DJs. Malone also discusses what he loves about Houston as opposed to his hometown of Philadelphia and his feelings on his dismissal:

And I'm like, "Well, I happen to have a beautiful big office with lots of stuff in it, so what about that?" "We'll have the movers ship it to your house." I'm like, "Well, what do I do?" They said, "Leave." And they walked me out. They had a guy walk me out to my car. And I'm like, "Do I look like a nut bag or something?"

You can read the rest of the interview here, at McGuff's blog.

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Old-timey radio photo courtesy of Flickr user jeffbalke.