I think Im going to be Governor of Arkansas one day. save this tweet.
— Bobby Bones (@mrBobbyBones) November 18, 2016
Bobby Bones may have aspirations beyond hosting one of the nation’s most popular morning shows.
The syndicated radio personality (airing locally on KMAG 99.1) tweeted on Thursday night that he thinks he may be the Governor of Arkansas one day. Bones grew up outside of Hot Springs, and got his start in radio working the night shift on KLAZ 105.9 before moving to Little Rock, Austin, and then to national prominence in Nashville.
There have been others who made the transition from radio to politics in Arkansas:
- Mike Huckabee got his start calling little league baseball games at KXAR 1490 AM in Hope, Arkansas. He would go on to pay his way through college at Ouachita Baptist University by becoming the nighttime DJ at Arkladelphia station KDEL. Even today he maintains a small part in the business as he owns half interest in four radio stations in Pine Bluff.
- Mike Ross was a personality at KTPA in Prescott, and later a news anchor at the Arkansas Radio Network before running for the state legislature, and later the U.S. House of Representatives. He ran for Governor in 2014 and didn’t quite make it.
- Current Governor Asa Hutchinson owned KBCV Radio in Bentonville in the 1980’s. That station reversed course from it’s Christian format owned by a heavily religious family and is now known as 98.3 The Keg. His brother-in-law Senator Kim Hendren owns KBVA 106.5, and previously owned Magic 107.9 in the Fayetteville market.
So if you want to be Governor Bobby Bones, you may be following in an Arkansas tradition by being a broadcaster-turned-politician. Good luck!
