Greg Dwyer and Bill Obenauf, aka 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 running on WXLP-FM WXLP is a Quad Cities area commercial Classic Hits radio station, licensed to Moline, Illinois. The station is owned by Cumulus Media, with studios located in Davenport, Iowa in the Quad Cities The Quad Cities is a geographic region of the Mid-Mississippi Valley of the United States that includes several communities in the states of Iowa and Illinois. As of 2009, the population is 379,066 and consists of four counties: Scott County in Iowa and Henry, Mercer, and Rock Island counties in Illinois. Their show was syndicated for over a year on KRNA KRNA is a radio station licensed to Cumulus Licensing LLC, with studios in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and a transmitter located west of Oxford, Iowa. The station currently has an active rock format-FM in Cedar Rapids as well. Their website, 2Dorks.com [1], reaches more than 15,000 unique visitors weekly.
They are as well known for their goofy on-air antics and frequent personal appearances as for their authority in classic rock Classic rock was originally conceived as a radio station programming format which evolved from the album oriented rock format in the early-1980s. In the United States, this rock music format now features a large playlist of songs ranging from the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s, with some stations including a limited number of current releases. [2] Their return to WXLP following an 11-year stint with Clear Channel Communications Clear Channel Communications, Inc. is an American media conglomerate company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. It was founded in 1972 by Lowry Mays and Red McCombs, and specializes in radio broadcasting, concert promotion and hosting, and fixed advertising in the United States through its subsidiaries. As of 2009, the CEO of the company is Mark station KCQQ 'KCQQ' is an FM radio station licensed to Davenport, Iowa with a classic rock format. The station's frequency is 106.5 MHz, and broadcasts at a power of 100 kW, with transmitter located in rural LeClaire in Scott County-FM became the subject of some controversy in early 2007 when Clear Channel sued Dwyer and Michaels and their news reader, Beth Davis, alleging that they had violated a non-compete clause in their contract.[3] 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 the U.S. state of Iowa and is the county seat of Linn County. The city lies on both banks of the Cedar River, 20 miles (32 km) north of Iowa City and 100 miles (160 km) east of Des Moines, the largest city and state's capital. City Hall and the County Courthouse are located on Mays Island, on the Cedar before returning to the Quad Cities.[4]
Notes
- ^ "2Dorks.com". http://www.2dorks.com/. Retrieved 2008-03-27.
- ^ "Bitboard: In the Spotlight". http://www.bitboard.com/spotlight/dwyerandmichaels.htm. Retrieved 2010-08-29.
- ^ "Clear Channel files suit against Dwyer & Michaels". Quad City Times The Quad-City Times is a daily morning newspaper based in Davenport, Iowa, and circulated throughout the Quad Cities metropolitan area. 2005-09-18. http://qctimes.com/news/local/article_197dae32-82fe-5f82-ab29-254d7b247c5b.html.
- ^ "Radio duo aren't violating no-compete clause, judge rules". Quad City Times The Quad-City Times is a daily morning newspaper based in Davenport, Iowa, and circulated throughout the Quad Cities metropolitan area. 2007-03-02. http://qctimes.com/news/local/article_1da13773-3be6-5323-b7e8-56d7486b9d52.html.
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