John Hayes is an American radio executive, famously named "The Incubus" by

Howard Stern Howard Allan Stern (born January 12, 1954) is an American radio and television personality, comedian, and author. He is best known for his radio show, '' The Howard Stern Show'', which gained popularity when it was nationally syndicated on terr ...

from his days as vice president and general manager at

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. He and Kevin "Pig Virus" Metheny, program director prior to Hayes' arrival, were portrayed by

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as a

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under the name Kenny "Pig Vomit" Rushton in the 1997 movie '' Private Parts''. Hayes claimed he fired Stern from WNBC-AM in 1985 on the orders of

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network executives, though Howard later said it was actually a man named Randy who gave him the news. Hayes again took Stern off the air from

CILQ-FM CILQ-FM (107.1 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, known as ''Q107''. The station broadcasts a mainstream rock format and is owned by Corus Entertainment. CILQ's studios are in the Corus Quay building on Dockside ...

in Toronto in 2002. Until 2008 Hayes was the president of the Radio Division for Canadian broadcasting outfit Corus Entertainment Inc.

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