Dave Nemo
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Dave Nemo is an American
radio personality A radio personality (American English) or radio presenter (British English) is a person who has an on-air position in radio broadcasting. A radio personality who hosts a radio show is also known as a radio host, and in India and Pakistan as a rad ...
who hosts a show on Road Dog Trucking on
Sirius XM Radio Sirius XM Holdings Inc. is an American broadcasting company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City that provides satellite radio and online radio services operating in the United States. It was formed by the 2008 merger of Sirius Sat ...
. Nemo's show is geared toward entertainment and news favored by
truck driver A truck driver (commonly referred to as a trucker, teamster, or driver in the United States and Canada; a truckie in Australia and New Zealand; a HGV driver in the United Kingdom, Ireland and the European Union, a lorry driver, or driver in ...
s. Before his current stint with XM, Nemo was best known as the host of ''The Road Gang,'' the overnight truckers' show broadcast for many years from
WWL (AM) WWL (870 kHz) is a U.S. AM radio station in New Orleans, Louisiana, owned by Audacy, Inc. The station has a talk radio format with sports talk at night. Studios are at the 400 Poydras Tower in the New Orleans Central Business District. WWL ...
Radio in
New Orleans New Orleans ( , ,New Orleans
Merriam-Webster.
; french: La Nouvelle-Orléans , es, Nuev ...
and heard throughout most of the country through its clear channel signal. Nemo was originally the show's weekend and fill-in host behind
Charlie Douglas Charles Edward Douglas (1 July 1840 – 23 May 1916) was a New Zealand surveyor and explorer, who came to be known as Mr. Explorer Douglas, owing to his extensive explorations of the West Coast of New Zealand and his work for the New Zealand S ...
, then took over the top spot on the show when Douglas left. Big John Parker then took Nemo's spot as weekend host. Nemo joined Road Dog (then Open Road) at its inception. His show is aired daily from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. EST. Two of his biggest overnight competitors during his ''Road Gang'' days,
Bill Mack William or Bill Mack may refer to: * William Mack (Ontario politician) (1828–1897), Ontario businessman and political figure * William L. Mack (1924–2009), provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada * William Mack (judge) (1904–1979), ...
and Dale "The Truckin' Bozo" Sommers, also joined the channel. Nemo's show is broadcast from studios in
Nashville Nashville is the capital city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County. With a population of 689,447 at the 2020 U.S. census, Nashville is the most populous city in the state, 21st most-populous city in the U.S., and the ...
, where guests from the
country music Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...
industry often stop by.


References


External links


Dave Nemo official site
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American radio personalities XM Satellite Radio {{US-radio-bio-stub