Joyner began his broadcasting career in Montgomery, Ala., just after doing his graduation, and worked at a number of radio stations in the American South. In the mid-1980s, Joyner made a decision that would change the direction of his life and alter the course of urban radio stations permanently. He was simultaneously offered two positions: one for a morning show at KKDA-FM, K104 in Dallas and one for an afternoon show at WGCI-FM in Chicago. Instead of choosing between the two, Joyner chose to take both jobs, and for years he commuted daily by plane between the two cities, earning the nicknames “The Fly Jock” and “The Hardest Working Man in Radio.”
