Who Killed LIVE 105.3? on Radio Misfits
Who Killed Live 105.3 is a 10-part oral history of the Dallas station that dominated from 2000–2008, then disappeared. Told by those inside, it covers the rise, the chaos behind the scenes, and how a powerhouse fell apart.
Episodes
Pugs begins with the night he and Kelly landed in Dallas, shaken from a post September 11th flight and hustled straight into a dingy hotel bar near the station for what management pitched as a creative meeting. The room is loud, boozy, and filled with the people who will shape their next decade, and while the station’s energy feels electric, the encounter with the Russ Martin crew turns sour fast. A mix of disrespect toward Kelly a...
Pugs Moran and James Parker step back to trace how Live 105.3 even came to exist, starting in Chicago where Pugs cut his teeth at The Loop and built his on-air identity before a chance phone call with Kelly Mohr turned into their first show together. That momentum quickly collided with reality when a feud with radio legend Steve Dahl got them fired, a hard lesson in how power really works in the business. From there, the story shif...
Pugs Moran tells the story of how getting fired in Chicago turned into the opportunity that brought him and Kelly Mohr to Dallas, thanks to Reid Rieker offering them a second shot as part of a new station built around big personalities. What starts as a late-night show meant to quietly build familiarity turns into a full move after months of waiting, delays from September 11th, and the abrupt replacement of the existing midday host...
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