''The Bobby Bones Show'' is an American nationally
syndicated country music
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radio show aired during the morning drive. The Bobby Bones Show originated in Austin, Texas, but now originates from studios at
WSIX-FM
WSIX-FM (97.9 MHz, "The Big 98") is a radio station licensed to serve Nashville, Tennessee. Owned by iHeartMedia, the station broadcasts a country music format. WSIX's studios are located in Nashville's Music Row district and the transmitter si ...
in
Nashville. The show is syndicated by
Premiere Networks
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, a
subsidiary of
iHeartMedia. It launched nationwide on
country music
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radio stations in February 2013 and reaches millions of listeners on 180 stations in the
United States
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, including major
radio markets such as
Washington, D.C.
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San Antonio
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Boston
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,
Miami
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, and internationally in
Halifax and
Manchester, UK
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. The program is broadcast on weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
Central Time with a "Top 30 Countdown” show that is aired on Saturday mornings and hosted by Bones. Starting in 2019, a new show was launched called “The Women of iHeartCountry”, hosted by Bones’ co-host Amy, in which she interviews female country stars, and plays only country songs by female country stars. The show is broadcast between 6:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m.
Central Time on Sundays, preceded by “98.7 WMZQ Community”, an infomercial-type show, broadcast between 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m.
Central Time. In some
radio market
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s, the show is recorded and heard in the evening; this is especially true in
Canada
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, where it is carried by
Bell Media Radio's
Pure Country
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network.
The program is also heard nationally via
iHeartRadio, iHeartMedia's free all-in-one streaming music and live radio service digital service. In June 2014, it was announced that Bobby Bones had signed a long-term contract extension with
iHeartMedia (formerly Clear Channel Media and Entertainment).
Prior to 2013, The Bobby Bones Show was a morning show for
Top 40
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stations, also syndicated by
Premiere Networks
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. Jay Shannon was the program director.
On July 18, 2011, it was announced that Bones had signed a three-year extension to do mornings for Clear Channel's
KHFI-FM
KHFI-FM (96.7 MHz) is a commercial radio station licensed to Georgetown, Texas, and serving the Greater Austin radio market. Owned by iHeartMedia, Inc., it airs a Top 40/CHR radio format, branded as " KISS-FM." It shares studios and offices ...
Austin, and also signed a deal with Premiere for syndication rights.
Bobby Bones is accompanied by co-hosts Lunchbox (Dan Chappell) and Amy (Moffett-Brown), along with sidekicks Eddie (Garcia), Raymundo (Raymond Slater), Mike D. (Deestro), Morgan #2 (Huelsman), and “Utility” Hillary (Borden).
The Raging Idiots
The Raging Idiots is a band which features Bobby Bones and Eddie Garcia from the Bobby Bones Show. The Raging Idiots helped raise money for
earthquake relief in
Haiti, the
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in
Memphis
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, and other charities. In 2013, after the BBS moved to Nashville, they were asked to perform in a charity event which resulted in their first public appearance. Their first concert outside of Nashville was in
Wichita, Kansas
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. They have played over 40 charity shows and have raised over $1.5 million for charities.
On June 2, 2015, The Raging Idiots signed a record deal with Black River Entertainment. They released their debut album “The Critics Give It 5 Stars” which was a number one record on the comedy charts. From the album, the singles were: “If I Was Your Boyfriend” and “Fishing With My Dad”.
The Raging Idiots released an EP titled “The Next Episode EP” where the lead single “Namaste” was a number one comedy song. Followed by “Chick-fil-A (...But It's Sunday)” reached number three on the comedy charts.
On April 2, 2020, The Raging Idiots released a new album "Bobby Bones & the Raging Idiots (Live in Little Rock)" which featured songs recorded during the 2019 Bobby Bones & The Raging Idiots Tour.
EAS activation incident
During the October 24, 2014 episode of ''The Bobby Bones Show'', a segment discussed a test of the
Emergency Alert System
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(EAS) that had interrupted a broadcast of Game 2 of the
2014 World Series
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on Nashville
Fox affiliate
WZTV. A clip was played of the
2011 national EAS test; due to the means in which EAS operates, this "engaged the EAS equipment of certain other EAS participants" to re-transmit the Emergency Action Notification (EAN) from the test. In particular, the false test spread via outlets (including
AT&T U-verse
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for playing EAS tones on-air outside of an emergency alert, and was directed to implement a three-year compliance plan, including the removal of EAS tones or any similar sounds from its audio libraries in order to prevent a similar incident.
Awards and accomplishments
''The Bobby Bones Show'' won the National On-Air Personality award at the ACM Awards in 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2020. They won a CMA Award for National Personality in 2017 and 2019.
[https://www.cmaworld.com/carrie-underwood-surprises-2019-cma-broadcast-awards-winners-early-reveal/ ] On November 2, 2017, Bobby Bones was inducted into the
National Radio Hall of Fame
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Three years later, Bruce DuMont, founder, president, and CEO of the Museum of Broadcast Communicati ...
. He is the youngest inductee to ever receive this honor.
References
External links
Official site
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American talk radio programs
American comedy radio programs
American country music radio programs
2003 radio programme debuts
Mass media in Austin, Texas
Mass media in Nashville, Tennessee