Kelly grew up in Northern Virginia and ran the student radio station at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria before going to Virginia Tech. He left the station a year later after dust-ups with the management. Amazingly, he was not arrested. When he returned to Phoenix, however, his boss told him he had to go to detox. He did, but only after going on the air and telling his listeners what had happened in L.A. and where he was going to be for the next 30 to 40 days.
Terrestrial radio lives in fear of being wrong.
If Kelly sounds like a loose cannon with an ax to grind, to mix metaphors, maybe that's right. In August, he left Jammin' Oldies after only a year at the station. But sources at the station and elsewhere within the company, Clear Channel Communications, report that Kelly and station management repeatedly clashed over many things. It's like, 'Okay, my sitcom was canceled. As in the rantings of most zealots, there is some truth to what Kelly says.