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began as a Top 40 deejay at the legendary Gordon McClendon's KLIF, the Mighty 1190. I was barely old enough to tune the dial.
KLIF switched to the frequency 570 fairly recently. I notice the station on 1190 has resurrected the "Mighty 1190" slogan and is playing Beatles music 24/7 until they figure out what to do next.
McCarthy was never all that political in his first years as a talk host in the 1970s for WFAA, IIRC. Neither was the other main host named Ed Busch. Both were more just personalities who schmoozed with their audiences and interviewed guests, who were sometimes politicians but usually astrologers, psychics, celebrity watchers, guys with free energy gizmos, etc.
He was socially liberal as would be expected of a guy still in his 20s who had just come out of being a rock music deejay. Other than that, who knew what his politics were ... whatever the Dallas "in crowd" wanted them to be, I would guess. Then he converted to Judaism at some point. That was pretty weird. He's an Irishman from Kentucky.
I saw a picture of him last year when 990 went on the air and was shocked at how old he looked. He talked about some kind of health scare he had had, too. He is still only about 55, even though he seems like he's been around forever.
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