Jeff Blazy began radio at the early age of 15 with a dream of someday living in California. Originally from New York, his family transplanted to Oklahoma City when Jeff was 6, but not before his father took him to visit a NY radio station. Jeff's dad, a record/music collector, worked for GE and occasionally brought home prototypes of new recorders and video devices. This would be the beginning of Jeff's lifelong career as a broadcaster.

By his junior year in high school, Blazy was on the air every night at a Top 40 radio station. Heavily influenced by an older brother and harder music, Jeff longed to be on an Album Oriented Rock station. Within a couple of years, he would do afternoon drive at The KATT, Oklahoma's first AOR station (still one of OKC's highest rated stations).

Tiring of being just a DJ announcing records and longing to entertain a morning audience with his special sense of humor, Blazy moved on to The Q in El Paso, Texas. At the time, The Q was one of the lowest rated stations in the market. After Jeff's introduction as morning guy, the station soared to #1! To this day, KLAQ is still on top!

Blazy started doing hilarious wake-up calls, characters like Hindu Gupdi Habeeb (a psychic who would only be able to predict terrible things that would happen to people), poet laureate Bruce Savage (who reads rock lyrics as poetry) and fake commercials. He honed his craft and was hired by Denver's KBPI.

While in Denver, Blazy was approached by KOME in San Jose. Jeff, who by this time had been performing in stand-up comedy clubs for years, jumped at the chance to do a morning show and to be in one of the most acclaimed spots in the country for up and coming comedians, San Francisco.

Blazy was teamed with Bob Lilley for 7½ years of hilarious morning shows at KOME. During The Blazy and Bob Show, KOME reached #1 in the ratings several times, won the Rolling Stone Readers Poll 2 years in a row, and Blazy and Bob were named Best Morning Show in Santa Clara County (San Jose) 4 consecutive years!

Blazy began Rise and Shine Rock and Roll Wake Up Call Wednesdays in 1987, as well as Battle of the Sexes, and The Dating Game. He built his own home studio to produce his own song parodies and fake commercials called "Blazco Productions."

The bay area's Peninsula magazine said, "The mornings belong to Jeff Blazy." Blazy and Bob were featured on the cover of the San Jose Mercury News' Arts & Books section as the show to beat. The duo was featured on ESPN's Sportsday to discuss the SF 49er's before their upcoming Super Bowl appearance. They would also be featured on Showtime following the October 17, 1989 earthquake. In fact, B &B were broadcasting live from the bay bridge the day of the earthquake to celebrate the Bay Bridge World Series. Blazy's comment that morning, "The Stick will be rockin tonight," definitely turned prophetic.

During those many years of success, Blazy broadcast from the World's Fair in Australia, also from London, Tokyo, Jamaica, Los Angeles, and New York. The Blazy & Bob Breakfast Club was held monthly, live from a local San Jose club, and would feature musical guests like Night Ranger, The Doobie Brothers, Mr. Big, Damn Yankees, Keith Emerson, The Smithereens, Ronnie Montrose, Journey, Boston, Jon Waite, Peter Frampton, among others. His band, The Blazers, would accompany artists performing their greatest songs.

Looming overhead while at KOME was the fact that the station's owner, Infinity Broadcasting, had Howard Stern as its morning show in New York. It was only a matter of time before Stern's show would take over Infinity's northern California signal and Blazy and Bob were moved to afternoons. Months later, KOME would say goodbye to Blazy, a move Jeff welcomed so he could end his contract with the company and return to mornings elsewhere. After almost eight years, the Blazy and Bob Show was over.

Blazy's next show was on San Francisco's KSFO. A younger, hipper talk show was the goal. Unfortunately, ABC pulled the plug on not only his morning show, but also the whole staff after only four months. Ironically enough, Jeff was the host of the KSFO New Years Eve Comedy Show in San Jose the next night! Jeff's opening line, "Its great to be here tonight. After getting fired yesterday, its great to be anywhere." While in SF, Jeff was a guest host on bay area TV's Mornings on 2.

Jeff's talents weren't wasted for long. The Blazy Show moved south to Tampa Bay and WYNF, a station Oakland Raider Lyle Alzado was once quoted as saying, "Listen to YNF or I'll rip your head off!" The show debuted #1 and continued strong for three years. He also was an entertainment reporter for the local ABC TV affiliate. While at YNF, Jeff asked owner JACOR to transfer him back to San Jose. Their response was that he would do too much damage to Lamont and Tonelli, a morning show already performing on one of their stations. After 3 years of success, Jeff turned down another 3-year contract to leave for Honolulu, Hawaii.

K-POI was the last rated radio station in Honolulu when Jeff began his morning show there. Within one year, the station would be rated #1 men 18-54 and The Blazy Show would be #2 in men. His addition of Wild Wahine Wednesday, Totally Live Friday, and live shows filled with Hawaiian babes took the morning show from bottom to top. Jeff married the love of his life, Lynn, on Oahu's north shore on Valentine's Day 1999. A year later, on February 13, 2000, they had their first child, a son named Jack Martin Blazy. A few months later, Jeff would leave another well-paved path of success to share his son with relatives. Hawaii was a fabulous chapter but now it was time to get back to California.

Enter the 101.7 The Fox, The Rock of Sonoma County!

Looking to replace the floundering Mark & Brian Show out of LA, KXFX looked to Jeff for his years of morning show experience, entertainment value and to once again provide local programming to the loyal Fox listeners and sponsors. It was a pleasure for Blazy to replace the syndicated show just as it was beating them and getting them knocked off his competition in Honolulu after only a few months!

The Blazy Show signed on Monday morning after Thanksgiving, 2000. Most Fox listeners were glad to hear not only a local voice, but to hear MUSIC! Blazy commented immediately, "I am totally aware that at a rock station the music shares the billing. I am comfortable with a 50/50 combination of my stuff with the music. Musically, I have never stopped growing. I am a huge fan of the new stuff as well as the classic. The Fox is rockin'!"

"I am so happy to be here in Sonoma County! My wife and I bought a house here and think this area is the best of Northern Cal." Blazy has been giving away cash, trips, tickets and more! Plus his listeners will never have to compete with San Jose or San Francisco to win. Sonoma County Fox listeners will ALWAYS be the Winners!

Jeff, pictured with his wife, Lynn and son, Jack at the Sam Adams broadcast in Boston, 2001.		Their latest addition, Nicholas, was born in Santa Rosa on February 5, 2003!
Jack Blazy tunes into Daddy's show...	Did he just say that?		Nicholas Blazy, Jeff's look-alike son. May 2004

Jack Blazy was used in the 2004 advertising for the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.

He was seen on promotional posters and hotel pamphlets throughout Northern California, as well as ticket envelopes for the Monterey Bay Aquarium.














 

Look for Blazy to perform stand-up comedy. He has recently opened for Dennis Miller, Richard Lewis and Bobcat Goldthwait at Santa Rosa’s Luther Burbank Center, and in the past he has shared a comedy stage with Jim Carrey, Kevin Pollack, Bobby Slayton, George Carlin, Bob Hope, Elaine Boozler, Mark Pitta, Sinbad, John Mendoza, Bob Rubin and many others.