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Scott Shannon
An avid fan and student of Top 40 radio since childhood, Michael Moore fashioned his on-air name, Scott Shannon, as a tribute to two of his favourite announcers, Scott Muni and Tom Shannon. Beginning at a station in Mobile, Alabama, in 1969, he became the rapid-firing “Super Shan.” Later, in Nashville, Tennessee, in Atlanta, Georgia, and in Washington, D.C., he combined deejay work with his duties as program director. In 1979 at WRBQ in Tampa, Florida, he pioneered the “Morning Zoo” concept (a raucous mix of in-studio guests, listener phone calls, skits, and song parodies). By the time Shannon took ...(100 of 157 words)