OK City Radio: The Eggman Is Back on KZLS FM

A familiar voice in local radio has returned to the airwaves: Greg ”The Eggman” Moore is back with Eggman in the Morning on KZLS, 99.7 FM.

"We're going back to the way radio used to be," he tells Shawn Lelos at okgazette.com. "There’s lots of listener interaction, and since we’ll program all the music here, we’ll take requests and play dedications."

It’s a marked change for Moore, whose experience with corporate radio structure included stints at KRXO, KTOK and KYIS (then KZBS).

"Outside of the morning shows, a lot of radio stations in this town and across the nation use voice tracking, which is a method of saving money doing the shift via a computer five or 10 states away," Moore explained. "When radio began to get so corporate- and stockholder-driven, it really took a decline in what came out of the speakers."

"The problem with that is there is nothing local about it anymore," he said of the corporate model. "If Mustang wins the softball championship, [KZLS] can talk about it. A listener can smell a prerecorded program a mile away."

Moore said the introduction of satellite networks like XM and Sirius — along with the popularity of Internet radio — also impacts local radio. With so much competition, a local DJ taking phone calls and accepting requests from listeners might make a difference.

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