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After having lived in some of the medium to large radio markets, I've noticed that traffic reporters often come up with some bizarre names.

In Atlanta I listened to "Crash" Clark give traffic reports.

On my commute between Montgomery and Auburn, I listen to "Les Speed" one direction and "Maj. Delay" the other.

What are some of the names who get you away from the traffic?

Hmmmm.. I don't think any of the traffic reporters on TV or the radio have goofy names. They all use their real ones.

Clair Day

we dont have one

land_shark3 wrote:In Atlanta I listened to "Crash" Clark give traffic reports.

On my commute between Montgomery and Auburn, I listen to "Les Speed" one direction and "Maj. Delay" the other.

What are some of the names who get you away from the traffic?

Afraid that none of the traffic people are that creative. The guys name is Chris "Something"....and there is a Brian "Somethingelse". I don't pay close attention because I am lucky enough to communte 'againest the grain' so normally have few problems.

"Detour Dave" your Traffic Slave is the only unusual name in our market.
(We take traffic pretty damn seriously around here.)
My favorite traffic reporters of all time are Bob Marbourgh (sp?) and Lisa Baden. Smoother than silk and cooler than cucumbers. They could read Aquinas on the air and people would listen.

(Andy Parks was pretty good, but he got booted upstairs to do color commentary in the studio.)

My name is bravedave, and I'm a traffic junkie...

Ours have normal names. I don't know if they use their "real" names, but they are normal sounding.

bravedave wrote:"Detour Dave"

Hmmmm... I forgot that name.. we had one of those, too.

There is one here in SoCal called "Sky Lord".

I've often considered lifting his name...

Midnight Flyer wrote:There is one here in SoCal called "Sky Lord".

I've often considered lifting his name...

We have Kitty Cougar on KAT country.

And the one on my classic rock station is named Cashmere. Or is it Kashmir? Don't know the spelling...but I think it is dorky.

I can't name any bizzarre names, but I sometimes get sick of the fake helicopter noise in the background. On other radio stations, the reporter is actually in a helipcopter, and its obvious.

I'll have to get back to this thread on the invented name thing, because I think there's at least one, just can't recall it right now.

Traffic? What is this you speak of?

The most popular one here in KC is probably Johnny Rowlands, but we used to have one named General Gridlock!!!!

Brown Eyed Girl wrote:We have Kitty Cougar on KAT country.

You making fun of the name Kitty???

Our only traffic is tractors and school busses If we had a traffic reporter, their name should be John Deere

Chuck Rhodes.

Y-NO-9-O wrote:Chuck Rhodes.

or Chuck Hoel

Well, around here a traffic jam is defined as more than 3 cars stuck behind a slow-moving piece of farm equipment...so we don't really have a need for traffic reports.

The traffic reporters here all have normal names. One of the local TV stations used to have a hot little blonde, she was the only reason to watch the traffic reports since I take the train to work.