WOMC's Jim "JJ" Johnson Announces Retirement

[Chris Edmonds]

Hey! I’m not 70….until April.

[Mega Hertz]

Look at it this way, Chris. In six years you can run for president.

[Chris Edmonds]

[Colonel Flagg]

It's interesting to watch the same names get thrown around every time there's a shake up on the dial. Jesus Christ, many of these people are pushing 70, if not over. We are watching the names of those who were big when radio was relevant ride off into the sunset, and there are few names behind them that can deliver or have the name recognition. At a minimum, they all had a bullseye on their foreheads anyway. Radio is always making more cuts than a top notch Brooklyn butcher. They can always save the 100K salary and have Bob Schneider pipe it in from Denver. If I had walked by Bill Bonds in a store or something, I would have stopped and said "Holy shit! Was that Bill Bonds?! I wanna go say hi!". Now? If I passed by an anchor on channel 7, I would have no idea. Radio is the same way. We don't run down to Joe's record shop on Fridays to meet the rawkin' afternoon jock anymore. In a way, R6 is right. Fuck it. Just play the burned out music. Knock yourself out.

Bill Bonds was a trip, and a fun guy to work with

And I agree, if I see Karen Drew, or Rich Luterman in the supermarket, I pay no attention whatsoever.

One reason why 700 WLW in Cincinnati does so well is because they have made an effort to cultivate new talent, even if it means stealing people from WEBN. Other than Holly Hutton, Chris Renwick, and a couple others, we haven't really done enough of growing new air talent here in the Motor City. That's why two of our top Urban stations have syndicated uniblab drive time shows, and that's ridiculous.

[non-anon bob]

Chris Edmonds...Please Go For It. It would be great to hear you on morning radio again!
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[Ben Zonia]

Chris Edmonds...Please Go For It. It would be great to hear you on morning radio again!

[Chris Edmonds]

OMG! Now that’s a blast from the past.

[MotorCityRadioFreak]

Best wishes to JJ. I see him on Facebook from time to time.

[Ben Zonia]

OMG! Now that’s a blast from the past.

I'm trying to remember where I picked that up, but it might have been a small chain called "Believe In Music", which may have had a store around Benton Harbor, where you could hear WEFM. But it seems like I got it at a branch somewhere outside the WEFM service area, so they may have delivered it to all their stores so they would have a Survey in the store for reference.

[Mega Hertz]

December 2, 2023

Jim Johnson awakens after sleeping in for the first time in over 50 years. He gets out of bed and turns on NewsMax. He shakes his fist in anger. "All these years I've been in morning radio and I have missed that Democrats cause 96% of murders!" he exclaims.

He makes his way out to the front yard. The light snow overnight has covered up the ash from the celebratory cross burning the night before. "I hope this doesn't screw up the white power parade", he thinks as he looks across the street. "Ugh", he grunts, then shuts the door. "I can't believe THEY allowed Darnell and his welfare queen girlfriend to live on this block. What is this city coming to?" he asks himself rhetorically.

He heads over to his computer. He moves the Astroglide and Puffs box, closes the windows that are playing election night 2016 coverage and opens a new window. "I need to stay in touch with the outside world", he thinks. He Googles "white supremacy", "great replacement theory" and "CRT IS COMMUNISM!" He sees a result and names to go along it.

He then joins the group. People with names like Bryce, Ben Zonia, and km1125. He fits in there! But, wait...what...what is THIS? "Liberalism has infiltrated THIS place, too? Can we not have ANYTHING to ourselves?" he yells as he pounds his fist on his desk. "Good thing I'm retired now...I have a LOT of work to do".

[IIN4MU]

Nailed it.

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December 2, 2023

Jim Johnson awakens after sleeping in for the first time in over 50 years. He gets out of bed and turns on NewsMax. He shakes his fist in anger. "All these years I've been in morning radio and I have missed that Democrats cause 96% of murders!" he exclaims.

He makes his way out to the front yard. The light snow overnight has covered up the ash from the celebratory cross burning the night before. "I hope this doesn't screw up the white power parade", he thinks as he looks across the street. "Ugh", he grunts, then shuts the door. "I can't believe THEY allowed Darnell and his welfare queen girlfriend to live on this block. What is this city coming to?" he asks himself rhetorically.

He heads over to his computer. He moves the Astroglide and Puffs box, closes the windows that are playing election night 2016 coverage and opens a new window. "I need to stay in touch with the outside world", he thinks. He Googles "white supremacy", "great replacement theory" and "CRT IS COMMUNISM!" He sees a result and names to go along it.

He then joins the group. People with names like Bryce, Ben Zonia, and km1125. He fits in there! But, wait...what...what is THIS? "Liberalism has infiltrated THIS place, too? Can we not have ANYTHING to ourselves?" he yells as he pounds his fist on his desk. "Good thing I'm retired now...I have a LOT of work to do".

Holy hell this is great…

[msd]

Thank you J.J.

My favorite character on the W.R.I.F morning show was Brutus, or Bam, Bam, I don't remember what the tough guy character's name was? I still don't know if he was a real person, or if he was a gimick of your own voice.

I had 30-50, or more W.R.I.f. stickers. I wonder how many summers I spent going to the mail box everyday, to see if any new stickers had arrived. My favorite was the purple Bob Seger with the silver bullet. I can't find them now. They may be worth money these dayst.. Maybe somebody stole them? I can't forget the W.R.I.F card- No Disco.

Then there was the BaBy girl, Karen? I remember a poster of her in my bedroom, when I was about 13, that I got at Autorama. Ha, Ha, if you know what I mean.

Thank you J.J. I had a good childhood.
Shane

[ProducerXM]

December 2, 2023

Jim Johnson awakens after sleeping in for the first time in over 50 years. He gets out of bed and turns on NewsMax. He shakes his fist in anger. "All these years I've been in morning radio and I have missed that Democrats cause 96% of murders!" he exclaims.

He makes his way out to the front yard. The light snow overnight has covered up the ash from the celebratory cross burning the night before. "I hope this doesn't screw up the white power parade", he thinks as he looks across the street. "Ugh", he grunts, then shuts the door. "I can't believe THEY allowed Darnell and his welfare queen girlfriend to live on this block. What is this city coming to?" he asks himself rhetorically.

He heads over to his computer. He moves the Astroglide and Puffs box, closes the windows that are playing election night 2016 coverage and opens a new window. "I need to stay in touch with the outside world", he thinks. He Googles "white supremacy", "great replacement theory" and "CRT IS COMMUNISM!" He sees a result and names to go along it.

He then joins the group. People with names like Bryce, Ben Zonia, and km1125. He fits in there! But, wait...what...what is THIS? "Liberalism has infiltrated THIS place, too? Can we not have ANYTHING to ourselves?" he yells as he pounds his fist on his desk. "Good thing I'm retired now...I have a LOT of work to do".

What a fucking loser post. So you think he sucks because he’s a Republican?
Rail on the guy all you want because you don’t like his style or whatever. But don’t be an asshole because you don’t like his politics. As if you’re any better. GFY.

[Deleted User 16144]

December 2, 2023

Jim Johnson awakens after sleeping in for the first time in over 50 years. He gets out of bed and turns on NewsMax. He shakes his fist in anger. "All these years I've been in morning radio and I have missed that Democrats cause 96% of murders!" he exclaims.

He makes his way out to the front yard. The light snow overnight has covered up the ash from the celebratory cross burning the night before. "I hope this doesn't screw up the white power parade", he thinks as he looks across the street. "Ugh", he grunts, then shuts the door. "I can't believe THEY allowed Darnell and his welfare queen girlfriend to live on this block. What is this city coming to?" he asks himself rhetorically.

He heads over to his computer. He moves the Astroglide and Puffs box, closes the windows that are playing election night 2016 coverage and opens a new window. "I need to stay in touch with the outside world", he thinks. He Googles "white supremacy", "great replacement theory" and "CRT IS COMMUNISM!" He sees a result and names to go along it.

He then joins the group. People with names like Bryce, Ben Zonia, and km1125. He fits in there! But, wait...what...what is THIS? "Liberalism has infiltrated THIS place, too? Can we not have ANYTHING to ourselves?" he yells as he pounds his fist on his desk. "Good thing I'm retired now...I have a LOT of work to do".

What a fucking loser post. So you think he sucks because he’s a Republican?
Rail on the guy all you want because you don’t like his style or whatever. But don’t be an asshole because you don’t like his politics. As if you’re any better. GFY.

December 2, 2023
Mega Hertz awakens after sleeping in (like he does every day) makes his way to the bathroom and looks in the mirror and says to himself J.J. Is no longer on the radio. I guess I’ll have to listen to butt rock on WLLZ. As Mega Hertz makes his way to the computer to make another loser post on Buzzboard, he now realizes that he is just a moron and should have never posted that about J.J. on the Buzzboard. Politics aside J.J. gave over 50 years to Detroit Radio and is a radio legend in this town. congratulations J.J., I hope for the best for you and have a great retirement.