Mike Elliott (radio Personality)
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Mike Elliott (John Michael Elliot) is a voice over artist and radio personality. Mike Elliott's radio career has taken him from Maine to
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, Tampa and Orlando, to Los Angeles, to Phoenix (
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) and
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, where he had the highest-rated morning show in the contemporary-hit format according to Arbitron holding a 25 share in the Tucson market. That means that one out of every four radios that were turned on in Tucson in the morning was tuned to his show. Elliott co-hosted a morning show on 93.7 KRQ with
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from 1992-1994. In 1996 Elliott built
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from a construction permit into a CHR market leader, owning it for two years. Mike Elliott & co-worker "Bill"
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wrote the parody song "Rock Me Jerry Lewis" in 1986 which reached Number 1 on The
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's Funny Five chart.


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