Randy Miller has been the puckish
enfant terrible of local radio for decades, which is why listeners either loathe or love his quick wit, his irritating and sometimes pubescent pranks, and his irreverent point of view. His critics, including
The Kansas City Star's Hearne Christopher Jr., gleefully reported Miller's fall from grace last year, when his lucrative contract with KBEQ 104.3 was not renewed after an eight-year run. Miller subsequently signed a one-year contract with KCTE 1510, returning to the less-popular AM signal for the first time since, Miller says, he was fifteen years old and had his first radio show. On his morning talk show, Miller turned out to be livelier than KCMO 710's George Woods or KMBZ 980's Noel Heckerson and Ellen Shenk, but he didn't recapture his old
joie de vivre until Union Broadcasting's Chad Boeger moved Miller back to FM at the Planet last spring. Finally, Miller had
The Morning Mayhem Show, an appropriate venue for his distinctive style of humor. Miller says the response has been "overwhelmingly positive" and he has high hopes for the next Arbitron ratings book. "If they're good, Hearne will be the least likely person in Kansas City to tell anyone," he says.
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