Jed the Fish

Jed the Fish
Jed the Fish
Born	Edwin Jed Fish Gould III; July 15, 1955 (age 69)
	Career
Style	Disc jockey
Country	United States

Edwin Jed Fish Gould III (born July 15, 1955), known to radio listeners as "Jed the Fish", is a disc jockey who hosted afternoon drive on KROQ-FM in Los Angeles,^[1]^[2] from 1978 to 2012. He interviewed alternative acts such as Brian Eno, David Bowie, Sting, and Elvis Costello.^{[citation needed]} An early supporter of new wave and alternative bands, Jed the Fish is reputed to have been the first US DJ to play Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, and the Pretenders^{[citation needed]}, helping KROQ establish itself as an influential radio station of the 1980s and 1990s.^[3]

Career

Jed the Fish began his radio broadcasting career while being a student at Casa Grande High School in Casa Grande, Arizona. He earned his First Class Radiotelephone Operator License in 1971 at age 16, programming and hosting a radio program targeted at the "youth market"^[4] on KPIN-AM.

From 1994 to July 2013, Jed hosted the nationally syndicated show Out of Order.^[5]^[6] Out of Order is two hours long and is syndicated by Dial Global.

From 2012–2018 Jed the Fish was also an air personality at radio station KCSN,^[7] where he programmed his own show.

In 2018, he became a DJ at Los Angeles' KLOS.^[8]

In February 2019, Jed the Fish joined the Roq of the 80s lineup on KROQ HD2 station on radio.com (now audacy.com) on Sundays from 6pm to midnight PST.^[9]^[10]

In addition to his on-air work, Jed the Fish produced the Southern California punk band El Centro debut album in 1995^[11] and the remix track “Thing” on Meg Lee Chin’s^[12] Junkies and Snakes in 2000.

Awards

In 1997 and 1999, Jed was awarded the Billboard Modern Rock Personality of the Year award.^[1]

In 1998, Jed received an award for the Radio & Records Local Modern Rock Personality of the Year.^[1]

Jed the Fish was awarded Billboard's Major Market Alternative Radio Personality of the year in 1998 and 2000 (in 1999 his co-workers Kevin and Bean received the award).^{[citation needed]} He won Album Network's Alternative All Stars award for Virtuallyalternative Radio Personality in 1999 and 2000.^{[citation needed]}

In 2004, he tied for 8th place along with former 102.7 KIIS-FM DJ Rick Dees as one of LA Radio's top ten most influential radio people described as “amazingly inventive” and "the best pure disc jockey in Los Angeles".^[13]

Personal life

In 1994, Jed the Fish purchased a 1894 Queen Anne Victorian estate home in Pasadena, California. The estate was featured in Lucille Ball's 1968 film Yours, Mine, Ours.^[14]

Jed the Fish is a graduate of USC's Annenberg School of Journalism with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Broadcast Journalism in 1978.^{[citation needed]} He is also a drummer, sitting in on drums for John Dolmayan during the KROQ Weenie Roast performance of System of a Down in 2002.^[15]

Other media

Jed the Fish is shown on the cover of Reel Big Fish's album, Turn The Radio Off^{[citation needed]}
Jed the Fish appears as himself in the game show "Win, Lose, or Draw: KRTH vs KROQ" in 1988^{[citation needed]}
Jed the Fish appears as a Radio Announcer in the film Night Angel in 1990^{[citation needed]}
Jed the Fish appears as himself in 1984 in Surf II ^{[citation needed]}
Jed the Fish appears as himself in the 2003 documentary Mayor of the Sunset Strip, about Rodney Bingenheimer.^{[citation needed]}