This is not a story about a run-of-the-mill DJ. It’s a look at an extraordinary personality in an era when many feel entertainment on the radio has been obliterated by too much research, too many programmers who like to micro-manage everything, and too many managers who let the complaints of a few dictate how their station sounds. For the most part, that doesn’t happen at SiriusXM satellite radio, but no form of “the wireless” seems to be immune to the vagaries of the industry.
We are talking about Phlash Phelps, host of America’s longest (at six hours) morning show, five days a week on the popular Sixties on 6 Oldies channel. Before landing at the satcaster in 2000, nearly a year before its November 12, 2001 launch, he hopscotched through…
