Tom Joyner Commutes / WGCI

On this date in 1986, Tom Joyner began working at two stations in two cities. He deejayed mornings at KKDA in Dallas then flew 800 miles to Chicago to do afternoons at WGCI. He did this 5 days a week for almost 7 years racking up 7 million frequent flyer miles in the process. This earned him the nicknames "The Fly Jock" and "The Hardest Working Man In Radio."

WGCI (W Globetrotter Communications Inc.) is an Urban Contemporary station licensed to Chicago, Illinois.

KKDA

KKDA is a heritage Urban station from Dallas, Texas. They began as a Disco station in 1976 before shifting to a mainstream Urban Contemporary format after disco died a glorious death. KKDA is one of the last independently owned, major market FM stations in existence.

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