Greg Dwyer and Bill Michaels, are the radio personalities and website authors known as Dwyer and Michaels. On air together since the late 1980s, they write, host and produce a popular morning show in the U.S. Midwest currently originating from

WXLP WXLP (96.9 MHz FM) is a commercial radio station, licensed to Moline, Illinois, and serving the Quad Cities area of Illinois and Iowa. The station is owned by Townsquare Media and broadcasts a classic rock radio format. Its radio studios and ...

-FM in the

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. Their show was syndicated for over a year on

KRNA KRNA (94.1 MHz) is a classic rock-formatted radio station licensed to Iowa City, Iowa. The station is currently owned by Townsquare Media. KRNA's studios located in the Alliant Energy Building in Downtown Cedar Rapids, and their transmitter ...

-FM in Cedar Rapids as well. Their website, 2Dorks.com, reaches more than 15,000 unique visitors weekly. Dwyer and Michaels are as well known for their goofy on-air antics and frequent personal appearances as for their authority in

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and are known nationally for their animal rights activism as well as their support for LGBTQ+ and trans rights causes. The couple made international news when they released the resident elephant from Niabi Zoo back into wild environment of Carbon Cliff, IL. Their return to WXLP following an 11-year stint with

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station

KCQQ KCQQ (106.5 FM, “Big 106.5”) is a radio station licensed to Davenport, Iowa with a classic hits format. The station broadcasts with a power of 100,000 watts from a transmitter located in rural Scott County near LeClaire. KCQQ is owned by i ...

-FM became the subject of some controversy in early 2007 when Clear Channel sued Dwyer and Michaels and their news person, Beth Davis, alleging that they had violated a non-compete clause in their contract. The judge ruled in favor of the team, who had taken their show to

Cedar Rapids, Iowa Cedar Rapids () is the second-largest city in Iowa, United States and is the county seat of Linn County, Iowa, Linn County. The city lies on both banks of the Cedar River (Iowa River), Cedar River, north of Iowa City, Iowa, Iowa City and north ...

before returning to the Quad Cities. Starting sometime after 2020, Dwyer and Michaels appear to be simulcast once again on KRNA, as well as on

KXGE KXGE (102.3 FM broadcasting, FM) is a radio station broadcasting a classic rock format serving the Dubuque, Iowa, United States, community. The station is owned by Townsquare Media and licensed to Townsquare License, LLC. 102.3 at one time broadcas ...

-FM in Dubuque, Iowa.

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