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Mark Simone

Mar Interviews Radio Legend Scott Shannon

Mark Simone

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4.4652 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Mark and Scott talk about the new documentary about Z100. Scott and Elvis Duran are credited with starting the powerhouse radio station. Z100 From worst to first is now streaming.

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0:00.0

well scott shannon a radio god an icon you know uh everybody knows him on the air is the great

0:06.6

radio but you may not know he's one of the programming geniuses of radio and he created z100

0:12.0

you know for younger people they just assume it was always there but no he created it there's a

0:16.9

documentary about this called uh from worst to first. It's the story of Z100.

0:22.4

Worst to First, the true story of Z100.

0:24.8

It is a huge hit this documentary.

0:26.8

It's streaming right now on Apple, on Amazon, anywhere you get streaming.

0:31.5

Watch this documentary, Worst to First, and the man behind it.

0:35.5

Scott Shannon, how you doing?

0:40.1

I'm doing great. First of all,

0:47.1

happy birthday to W.O.R. Congratulations on 100 years. Second of all,

0:55.0

congratulations to the number one radio guy in middays in New York, Mark Simone.

1:01.8

Thanks. Hey, and you and Elvis Duran put this documentary together. You know, there's a lot of people out in the world that just Z-100's like Central Park. It was just always there. They

1:07.6

don't realize you created this out of, and you came to New York and created this,

1:12.5

and you created the Morning Zoo,

1:15.4

and you're probably the most copied morning guy in the world with that.

1:20.0

And what went through your head when you came to New York?

1:24.6

What did you think you were going to create?

1:26.7

Well, when I first came to New York, I had only been to New York a few times in my life.

1:34.3

And, you know, I took the job.

1:36.2

And after I took it, I go, what the hell am I going to do now?

1:40.2

Because, you know, there was a lot of big, big companies with radio stations back then.

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