James Carney Obituary Death: Moby In The Morning Houston Radio Icon, James Carney Died of

May 2024 · 2 minute read

James Carney Obituary – Death: “Moby In The Morning” Houston Radio Icon, James Carney Died of Liver Cancer

James Carney Obituary; Radio legend James Carney, 69, of Atlanta passed away after battling stage 4 liver cancer. He anchored the morning show “Moby in the Morning.” He occasionally hosted morning shows in Houston and Atlanta. The Country Radio and Texas Radio Halls of Fame both inducted Moby, as he was better known, into their respective halls.

About James Carney

The man, who was born and reared in Crossville, Tennessee, acquired the moniker “Moby Dick” after narrowly avoiding passing out while swimming in a lake when he was younger.

When he was only fifteen years old, he worked his first radio job at 1490 WCSV in Crossville, Tennessee. He obtained jobs at many radio stations in Nashville, including WAMB, WKDF, and WKQB, after completing his studies at the university.

Moby started his tenure as the morning host for “97 Rock” 96.5 KSRR) in Houston in 1981 after briefly working at “98 Rock” WQXM in Tampa. He worked in this capacity for five years in total. In 1986, he hosted the morning programme on “97.1 The Eagle” on KEGL in Dallas. In 1988, he made a comeback to Houston to host the afternoon programme on 101.1 KLOL. He has previously presided over the Dallas morning show.

From the early 1990s until 2002, when he departed the station, Moby hosted the morning show on Country “Kicks 101.5” on WKHX-FM in Atlanta. For a span of five years, ABC Radio Networks syndicated the programme.

He briefly worked the morning shift at Atlanta’s Classic Rock “Z93” WZGC before moving on to host a self-syndicated programme for the next twelve years until his retirement in 2016. The programme was targeted at small communities in the South.

He had previously spent a brief period doing the morning shift at Atlanta’s Classic Rock “Z93” WZGC. Moby has been inducted into three different radio halls of fame: the Country Radio Hall of Fame, the Radio Hall of Fame of Georgia, and the Radio Hall of Fame of Texas. He has received the “Major Market Country Morning Show of the Year” award from Billboard five times.

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