St. Louis Radio: Bob Romanik Hit With Protection Order

Bob Romanik

Radio talk show host Bob Romanik, has been hit with a court order of protection filed by an Affton-area man who claims the radio host has targeted him for violence.

According to stltoday.com, Caleb Friz was granted the order May 4 by St. Louis County Circuit Court Associate Circuit Judge Mary B. Schroeder.

Romanik is the host of “Kool Killer Kountry Radio” on KQQZ 1190 AM  and bills himself as the “Grim Reaper of Radio.” He is regularly criticized for making racist, homophobic and misogynistic slurs on the show.

In his filing to get the order, Friz said Romanik has given out Friz’s home address both on live broadcasts and on the station’s website. Friz told the court that Romanik has told his listeners to “visit” Friz.

“He threatened me and is trying to incite an assault against me,” Friz wrote in his petition. He also said in the petition that Romanik’s action may have stemmed from Friz’s attempt to get advertisers to boycott the station.

Romanik called the court action the “biggest, bogus court order I’ve ever seen” and denied he gave out Friz’s address to incite violence.

“He wants to get me to stop talking, so he went after my advertisers, a boycott. That’s what started all this. And he put my home address on his Facebook page, so I put his address on the air,” Romanik said Friday in a phone interview.

The order prohibits Romanik from threatening violence against Friz, either on the radio, on social media, through podcasts; to communicate with Friz in any manner; and to physically stay at least 500 feet away from Friz.