PRESERVING RADIO HISTORY ACROSS COLORADO

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  • Erica Shea

    Erica Shea is the newer voice you hear alongside Slacker if you tune in to Alice 105.9 on Denver afternoons. She is a radio producer and on-air personality, and she joined the Slacker Show in 2025.

    The Denver gig

    Audacy brought Erica to KALC-FM in April 2025. On the weekday-afternoon Slacker Show she works with Erin Doyle, T-Hack and Slacker.

    Her road here, city by city

    Right before Colorado she was in Salt Lake City, co-hosting E. White + Erica in the Morning on KZHT in 2023. The year before, in San Diego, she did double duty as producer and on-air voice on Geena the Latina and Frankie V in the Morning (2022).

    Go back further and you land in Los Angeles: in 2014 she started as an intern at KIIS-FM and worked her way up to a full-time producer on On Air with Ryan Seacrest. And the very beginning was in San Jose, where at 17 she landed her first radio job operating the board at KRTY.

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  • Erin Doyle

    Erin Doyle is a Denver radio personality, producer and music director. If you listen to The Slacker Show on Alice 105.9 in the afternoon, she’s the one helping steer the music and the laughs.

    Colorado radio career

    Erin earned a bachelor’s degree in Music Business at the University of Colorado Denver, and her professional radio career began in 2018. Since then she has built up experience at Alice 105.9, KS 107.5 and 99.5 The Mountain, blending production work with time on the air.

    The Slacker Show

    Over at Alice, Erin holds the music director job and is a regular co-host of the weekday-afternoon Slacker Show. March 2025 brought an extension of her agreement, alongside Slacker and T-Hack, and Erica Shea came aboard the show in April 2025.

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  • T-Hack

    T-Hack is a Denver radio personality and co-host of The Slacker Show on KALC-FM, Alice 105.9. If your weekday afternoon drive is on Alice, you’re likely hearing him.

    The Slacker Show

    T-Hack is a regular voice on Alice’s weekday afternoon program alongside Slacker and Erin Doyle. The ensemble show mixes listener calls, relationship questions, entertainment and everyday-life topics, and T-Hack contributes both on air and to the production of the show.

    In March 2025 Audacy extended his agreement along with those of Slacker and Erin. Erica Shea joined the team the following month, and the four-person program continues weekday afternoons from 3 to 7 p.m.

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  • Slacker

    Slacker is a longtime Alice 105.9 personality whose career at KALC-FM has moved from the station’s morning show to one of Denver’s most durable afternoon programs. If Alice 105.9 is your drive-home soundtrack, you know him well.

    Alice 105.9

    Slacker joined Alice’s morning lineup in the early 2000s, working with Gregg Thunder and Bo Reynolds. When Thunder left Denver in late 2004, Slacker moved to afternoons and teamed with Reynolds for Slacker & Bo. Steve Weed replaced Reynolds in 2006, creating Slacker & Steve, a partnership that lasted for years and became a signature Alice drive-time show.

    The program later evolved into The Slacker Show. By 2025 the weekday afternoon team included Slacker, T-Hack and Erin Doyle, with Erica Shea joining that April. Audacy signed Slacker to a new three-year agreement in March 2025 and extended the contracts of T-Hack and Doyle as well.

    Slacker has traditionally kept his legal name private, publicly identifying himself only by his on-air name and the first name Michael.

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  • Michael “Shark” Sharkey

    Michael “Shark” Sharkey is a radio personality, programmer and talent coach whose Colorado work included afternoons at KRFX-FM, 103.5 The Fox. If you were a classic-rock fan in Denver, you may have caught Shark on the air.

    Denver radio

    Known on the air as Shark, Michael hosted a regular program on The Fox during the station’s classic-rock era. His Denver work included artist interviews, station events and public appearances, including interviews with Stevie Nicks and Aerosmith bassist Tom Hamilton.

    Programming and coaching

    Michael later worked as a radio programmer and built a coaching practice for radio hosts and podcasters. He created The Talent Show, a program that interviews successful audio hosts and teaches presentation and audience-engagement skills.

    Return to radio

    In 2024 Michael returned to live radio on WHPT-FM, 102.5 The Bone, in Tampa Bay. He co-hosts the interactive men’s talk program Let’s Get Real with Anthony “Spanish” Polichemi, and the show was still in production in 2026.

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  • Kathy Lee

    Kathy Lee is a Denver radio producer and on-air personality best known for her long association with KRFX-FM’s morning show and for co-hosting with Rick Lewis and Dave Logan on KOA. If you spent your Denver mornings with 103.5 The Fox, she was the one keeping the show on track behind the mic.

    Lewis & Floorwax

    Lee was born in Korea and moved to Colorado at age two. She became producer of the top-rated Lewis & Floorwax morning show on 103.5 The Fox, where she was both the behind-the-scenes organizer and an increasingly important on-air voice. A 2008 profile described her as the person who researched facts, guided topics and kept the spontaneous show moving.

    After Michael Floorwax left KRFX for health reasons, Lee remained with Rick Lewis as co-host and producer of The Rick Lewis Show.

    KOA and television

    In 2016 Lee joined Lewis and longtime Broncos broadcaster Dave Logan on KOA’s Lewis & Logan. The program later moved from afternoons to late mornings. Her media work also included appearances connected with KCNC-TV’s Broncos program Countdown to Kickoff.

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  • Willie B

    Willie B is the on-air name of Stephen Meade, and if you’ve woken up to rock radio in Denver any time in the last three decades, you’ve probably had him in your ear. He’s one of the longest-running morning voices on KBPI.

    From Kentucky to Denver

    Stephen grew up in Kentucky and decided as a kid that he wanted to be a disc jockey. He eventually made his way to Denver and joined KBPI in the early 1990s. After working other dayparts, he moved into mornings and became one of the most durable voices of the station’s “Rocks the Rockies” era.

    Surviving the changes

    Willie B outlasted big changes in ownership, format and frequency as KBPI moved from 105.9 to 106.7 and later to 107.9. He marked 25 years at the station in 2018, and by 2026 interviews were describing a run of more than three decades.

    Cars, TV and giving back

    A lifelong car guy, Willie B hosted Willie B’s Garage and joined the technical crew of the SPEED TV series Pinks All Out. His community projects have included big vehicle events and charitable builds. One of them was helping organize a home renovation for an elderly Colorado resident, worth about as much as a nice new car.

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  • Gregg Stone (Uncle Nasty)

    Gregg Stone is better known as Uncle Nasty. If you cranked KBPI in the afternoons any time from the early ’90s on, you heard that gravelly voice introducing the heavy stuff.

    Uncle Nasty on KBPI

    Gregg arrived in Denver in 1990 and joined KBPI, turning Uncle Nasty into one of the market’s most recognizable hard-rock personalities. His gruff delivery, deep knowledge of heavy metal and support for new Colorado music set his weekday afternoon show apart. He also created and hosted the overnight metal show Metalix.

    Around the dial

    Apart from stints at stations like KSJO in San Jose and KBER in Salt Lake City, Gregg spent most of the next two decades on Denver radio. He left KBPI in 2012, but he was soon back on the local dial at 107.1 Jack FM. He later rejoined iHeart’s Denver rock lineup, working on KRFX-FM and on KBPI after its 2017 frequency move.

    Music and voice work

    Gregg also fronted the Denver metal band Horse, which Westword named the city’s best metal band in 2009. He’s built a voice-over career too, and has worked with Warrior Voices, which trains military veterans for voice performance.

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  • Michael Floorwax

    Michael Floorwax is the on-air name of Michael Steinke. If you commuted in Denver in the ’90s or 2000s with 103.5 The Fox on, you probably started a lot of mornings laughing with Lewis & Floorwax.

    Lewis & Floorwax

    Michael and Rick Lewis started their morning show on KRFX-FM in July 1990. A mix of local satire, characters, stunts and listener interaction made it one of the most popular shows in Denver radio history. It ran for more than 24 years and made the pair well known far beyond the station’s classic-rock audience.

    Away from the mic, Michael performed stand-up comedy and sang in the Groove Hawgs, the blues-rock band he formed with Rick and other Colorado musicians.

    Stepping away

    Michael left KRFX in 2014 and later shared that he’d been dealing with severe clinical depression. He returned to Denver radio as a guest in 2018 and picked up occasional comedy work again. In a 2023 interview he talked about his recovery and plans for a podcast with comedian and former Colorado radio personality Steve “Mudflap” McGrew.

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  • Ginger Havlat

    Ginger Havlat, known on the air simply as Ginger, is a longtime Colorado music-radio personality and music director most closely identified with KBCO-FM. If you grew up on Boulder and Denver’s “World Class Rock,” you spent a lot of your life with her voice.

    KBCO

    Ginger’s broadcasting career lasted more than four decades, and most of it was at KBCO. Across several stints she hosted middays, served as music director and helped shape the station’s identity.

    Her work put her at the center of Colorado’s album-oriented and adult-alternative music scene. Listeners knew her for an understated, knowledgeable style and for her unusually long relationship with both KBCO’s audience and the artists the station championed.

    Retirement

    Ginger retired from regular KBCO duties at the end of 2022 after 38 years of association with the station and about 34 years on its staff, a span that included a stretch away before she returned.

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