Doug Stephan
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Talk radio
Talk radio is a radio format containing discussion about topical issues. Most shows are regularly hosted by a single individual, and often feature interviews with a number of different guests. Talk radio typically includes an element of listener participation, usually by broadcasting live...
personality and hosts the nationally syndicated Doug Stephan's Good Day.
Radio Programs
Doug Stephan's Good Day is a "call-in" and interview show airing live Monday through Saturday featuring a fast paced format covering variety of topics. According to Talkers MagazineTalkers magazine
Talkers Magazine is a trade industry publication related to talk radio in the United States. Its slogan is "The Bible of Talk Radio and the New Talk Media"...
estimates, Good Day has over 3 million listeners per week on over 300 stations. The Doug Stephan's good day show is listed as number 13 in the "Heavy Hundred" list published by Talker's Magazine in 2010. This is a list complied from thousands of talk show hosts drawn upon a combination of hard and soft factors which include courage, effort, impact, longevity, potential, ratings, recognition, revenue, service, talent and uniqueness.
Stephan also hosts Talk Radio Countdown, a Saturday morning countdown of the top 10 topics discussed in talk radio. Talkers Magazine
Talkers magazine
Talkers Magazine is a trade industry publication related to talk radio in the United States. Its slogan is "The Bible of Talk Radio and the New Talk Media"...
publisher Michael Harrison (publisher) is a frequent guest on this show.
Doug Stephan began his career in radio as a deejay in the early 1960s in Tiffin, Ohio
Tiffin, Ohio
Tiffin is a city in and the county seat of Seneca County, Ohio, United States. The population was 18,135 at the 2000 census. The National Arbor Day Foundation has designated Tiffin as a Tree City USA....
and thereafter decided to become a talk radio show host. He broadcasts from his home in Framingham, Massachusetts
Framingham, Massachusetts
Framingham is a New England town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 68,318 as of the United States 2010 Census. -History:...
, where he operates a dairy farm.
Controversy
On July 28, 2010, regional radio hosts Armstrong & GettyArmstrong & Getty
Armstrong & Getty is a 4-time Best of Sacramento award-winning morning drive radio show and television show airing in Northern California on several Clear Channel radio stations and a Newport Television station...
discovered that Doug Stephan had taken numerous clips of callers from their own show and then, without permission, edited them for rebroadcast on Doug Stephan's Good Day program. For this rebroadcast, the names and locations of the callers were altered and "reaction dialogue" from Doug Stephan was recorded over reactions from the original hosts, who were edited out. These edited clips were then rebroadcast without attribution on the Good Day program and presented as legitimate, live calls on a call-in line. Doug Stephan called in to the Armstrong & Getty program to explain himself, stated that this was the usual manner of producing his other program, Talk Radio Countdown, and stated that it was wrong for him to have taken the material without permission or attribution.
Other ventures
Stephan's company Tiffin Broadcasting, LLC owns WTTFWTTF
WTTF — branded AM 1600 and Cool FM 93.3 WTTF — is a commercial radio station licensed to Tiffin, Ohio broadcasting a full service oldies format, along with an emphasis on local news, talk and high school sports. The station serves Tiffin and much of surrounding Seneca County...
(1600 kHz, W227BJ 93.3 MHz) in Tiffin, Ohio
Tiffin, Ohio
Tiffin is a city in and the county seat of Seneca County, Ohio, United States. The population was 18,135 at the 2000 census. The National Arbor Day Foundation has designated Tiffin as a Tree City USA....
, the very same station where he began his broadcasting career. In late 2008, Stephan announced his intention to donate WTTF to his alma mater Heidelberg College
Heidelberg College
Heidelberg University is a private liberal arts college located in the city of Tiffin, Ohio in the U.S. state of Ohio. Founded in 1850, it was known as Heidelberg College until 1889 and from 1926 to 2009.- History :...
; for now, WTTF is operated by preceding owner BAS Broadcasting via a reverse local marketing agreement
Local marketing agreement
In U.S. and Canadian broadcasting, a local marketing agreement is an agreement in which one company agrees to operate a radio or television station owned by another licensee...
.
His company Viva Communications also owns WSDE
WSDE
WSDE is a radio station broadcasting an Adult Standards/MOR format provided by Dial Global. Licensed to Cobleskill, New York, USA. It is owned by SCHOHARIE BROADCASTING, LLC .-History:...
AM, 1190 kHz in Cobleskill, New York. Both WTTF and WSDE are affiliates of Stephan's "Good Day" program.