Skinny Bobby Harper

Skinny Bobby Harper (1939 – July 22, 2003) was a radio and video DJ. First making it big in Cincinnati at WSAI (AM), he moved to Atlanta in the late 1960s and joined the staff of WQXI radio, where "WKRP in Cincinnati" creator Hugh Wilson used him as inspiration for the sitcom's off-the-wall character Dr. Johnny Fever.cite web
title=Radio Broadcasting History: Radio People by Name (H)
pages=entry for Skinny Bobby Harper | date=2008
publisher=440 International, Inc. | accessdate=2008-10-03
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While in Atlanta, Harper also worked for seven radio stations including WLTA-FM, WKLS-FM and WSB-AM. Born and raised in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, Harper's die-hard hockey fandom drove him to serve as a color commentator for Atlanta Flames radio broadcasts. After being released from WSB-AM in 1991, Harper worked apart from radio in the corporate communications office of Delta Air Lines. He would go on to work for MARTA and Underground Atlanta before retiring.

Bobby Harper died on July 22, 2003 in Atlanta, Georgia, from cancer.

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* cite web
title=Radio Broadcasting History: Radio People by Name (H)
pages=entry for Skinny Bobby Harper | date=2008
publisher=440 International, Inc. | accessdate=2008-10-03
url=http://www.440int.com/namesh.html

External links

* [http://wsbradio.com/news/072203bobbyh.html WSB Radio obituary]
* [http://www.legacy.com/Atlanta/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonID=1183696 Obituary]
* [http://www.yubatube.com/bobbyharper/ Tribute site]