The Adam Carolla Show was a syndicated morning radio program, which began airing on January 3, 2006 and ended on February 20, 2009. The show was produced by CBS Radio as part of its Free FM format, and was based out of KLSX in Los Angeles. On February 20, KLSX changed format from hot talk to Top 40 (CHR), and the Adam Carolla show was canceled along with The Tom Leykis Show, Frosty, Heidi & Frank, Broadcasting Bonaduce and The Tim Conway Jr. Show. The Adam Carolla Show was heard in a number of major metropolitan markets on the West Coast of the United States.
Overview
The Adam Carolla Show featured Adam Carolla and Teresa Strasser.
The supporting cast included sound effects guy Bryan Bishop, producer Angie Fitzsimmons, writer Mike Lynch, announcer/technical producer Mike Dawson, technical production assistants Mike Cioffi and David D. Keller, and board operator Bill Mahoney. Jimmy Kimmel served as creative consultant in the first year, and hosted the show on June 7 and June 8, 2006, while Carolla was with his wife for the birth of their twins and April 26, 2007, while Carolla was at New York for the Tribeca Film Festival to see the premiere of his movie The Hammer .
History
On August 4, 2005, Carolla announced that he would leave Loveline to pursue a position in morning radio, replacing Howard Stern (with Stern's approval) in a number of West Coast markets. Adam's last night on Loveline was November 3, 2005, to allow him to have time to prepare for his morning debut at the beginning of 2006. He stated that he would love to continue to do Loveline, which seemed to fly by while doing it, but the show would not be a possibility. On October 25, Infinity Broadcasting officially announced that it would be replacing Stern with Carolla on several radio stations in the western United States. On January 3, 2006, Carolla began his new morning radio show, The Adam Carolla Show , on stations in Los Angeles (where the show is based), Phoenix, San Francisco, Palm Springs, Portland, Seattle, Las Vegas, Oakland, Reno, Burbank, Fresno and Sacramento.
Replacing Perry
Former MuchMusic and VH1 video jockey Rachel Perry served as the original news reader on the show. On March 27, 2006, the show noted that Perry was absent for a few days to work on a TV pilot (a show titled Beyond ). However, a few days stretched into a few weeks, during which the show featured several fill-ins, including Strasser, former MSNBC anchor Claudia DiFolco, and actress Tracy Metro. The show also had guests and a few of their recurring characters fill in. In late April, Perry's pictures and bio were removed from the show's website. Finally, on May 1, Carolla announced that the show had taken the opportunity to use Perry's absence to drop her from the show, as they felt that the chemistry wasn't quite there. On May 8, Strasser was named as Perry's official replacement.
Firing of Dameshek, Brusca, and Newcomb
In a December 17, 2006 message on the Adam Carolla Show message board, sports broadcaster Dave Dameshek wrote that he and the show’s producer Jimmy Brusca had been fired. Dameshek also wrote that Danny Bonaduce would be his replacement. Tad Newcomb, also known as Fat Tad or Big Tad, was a regular on-air contributor to the show, and has also confirmed that he was fired via his MySpace account.
CBS Radio released a press release on December 21, 2006 announcing Bonaduce as a featured member of the show starting January 2, 2007, but did not confirm or deny any firings.
On December 28, 2006, Carolla posted to the show's message boards and wrote that network executives had wanted to replace Dameshek because of the show's poor performance in Los Angeles. Carolla said the show's Arbitron ratings in the city shifted from 1.2 to 3.3 to 0.7, and CBS used this as an excuse to "strip the show". On the January 2nd show, Carolla commented on the firings and confirmed his posting that they were due to low ratings. He said that he had no say in the decision, and while he was upset about the firings he expressed a desire to move on.
Departure of Bonaduce
On December 12, 2007, it was announced on the air that Adam had come down with an illness and would not be coming to host the show. Danny and Teresa continued the show with Bryan taking a more active role as an on-air talent. On-air talent remarked many times that this was an unusual situation and that Adam has attended work while sick many times before and that he would have to be very sick in order to stay home. KLSX Program Director Jack Silver stated, "I have to take Adam’s word. When an employee says he's sick, short of going to his house with a doctor, I have to take him on his word." That afternoon, Adam phoned into Dr. Drew's radio show and re-stated that he was sick, but would see how he would feel the next day before making a decision on whether to go into work or not. Adam proceeded to stay on the phone for over an hour.
Adam's absence continued throughout the end of the week, including missing the 2007 Ace Awards and the live remote broadcast of the yearly "Christmas Carolla" holiday special from the Galaxy Theatre in Santa Ana, CA.
On December 17, 2007, The Official Adam Carolla Show message board was removed from the website, including all threads related to Adam's illness. The Adam Carolla Show went on scheduled hiatus following the Christmas episode.
On December 21, 2007, CBS Radio issued a press release concerning the future of the Adam Carolla Show and creation of Danny Bonaduce's new show:
"...contributing show member Danny Bonaduce will relinquish his role on THE ADAM CAROLLA SHOW and begin hosting his own program on KLSX. Positioned between the highly rated Frosty, Heidi & Frank Show (10:00AM-2:00PM) and Tom Leykis’ program (3:00-8:00PM), BROADCASTING BONADUCE: THE DANNY BONADUCE SHOW will premiere Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2008 on-air and online from 2:00-3:00PM, PT. Teresa Strasser will continue to contribute to the station’s morning drive program with Adam Carolla."
On the September 12, 2008 show Carolla confessed that the reason for him missing the last shows in 2007 was because he had come down with "The Red Flu", referring to being sick of working with the red headed Danny Bonaduce. It was also during Adam's weeklong absence that the show's messageboard became flooded with messages calling for Danny's removal from the show. The messageboard thread addressing this quickly gained over 1300 posts, and many people posting were new users. Adam himself was spotted reading the messageboard several times, but did not post.
Cancellation
Although it was consistently ranked among the top 5 shows in ratings (and #1 in many of its affiliate markets), on February 18, 2009 it was confirmed that The Adam Carolla Show had been canceled and the last show would air on February 20, 2009. The cancellation came in effect of a format shift at the Los Angeles flagship station (KLSX) from hot talk to a Top 40 (CHR) format. The show will continue to be made available via Westwood One in a 'best-of' format.
Syndication
The Adam Carolla Show was heard on the following stations, and broadcasted weekdays from 5:00am-10:00am PST (with the 5am hour a "best of" compilation of the previous morning's broadcast), for around a month CBS Radio will provide a "best of format" to give time for the affiliates to fill their morning slot:
- Los Angeles, CA - 97.1 Free FM
- Portland, OR - 101.1 KUFO FM
- Las Vegas, NV - 107.5 KXTE FM
- Sacramento, CA – 106.5 KWOD
- Seattle, WA – 107.7 KNDD
- Reno, NV – 100.9 KRZQ
- Fresno, CA – 104.1 KFRR
- Palm Springs, CA - 99.5 KMRJ
- Portland, ME - 970 WZAN (tape delayed 7-10 PM ET)
- Pocatello, ID - 92.1 KEGE
- Phoenix, AZ - 101.5
- A San Francisco station (106.9 KIFR) was also a carrier of the show but dropped the program sometime late in the first year as the station changed to an oldies format. It was then carried on AM 1550 KYCY into 2007 but was ultimately dropped partway through the year.
Podcast and live internet stream are popular among listeners in markets where show is not broadcasting, which was mentioned on air numerous times. Listeners have called from Midwest, East coast, Hawaii, Canada, Japan, Spain and England among other areas.
Most of the show is available for download via podcast through FreeFM. The format varies depending on the station providing the RSS feed. The current feed links are:
Adam Carolla Show Podcast - hosted by KLSX
Adam Carolla Show Podcast - "Daily Top Segments" hosted by KLSX, linked to from The Adam Carolla Show's official website
The feed can also be found for iTunes users through the iTunes Podcast directory.
Show content
Frequent guests
- David Alan Grier
- Eric Stromer
- Larry Miller did a weekly segment 'Stupid Beyond Belief'.
- Joel McHale
- Dana Gould
Recurring characters
- Deaf Frat Guy . He also goes by the name Jason or the nickname "Maverick", and is played by Josh Gardner. Deaf Frat Guy originally started his Greek membership as a Tau Kappa Epsilon at the University of Southern California. In May 2006, Deaf Frat Guy was removed from the fraternity, and decided to start his own, called Delta Fu Gamma. He created the fake Greek letter "Fu" because h
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