The two voices who made Roy D. Mercer a Sooner State radio staple will be inducted into the Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame. Phil Stone and Brent Douglas of iHeartMedia Tulsa’s KMOD were posthumously named to the Class of 2027.
Stone and Douglas hosted KMOD’s Morning Zoo for nearly 27 years.
Their best-known creation was Roy D. Mercer, a fictional prank-calling character voiced by Douglas. The bit grew from a Tulsa radio comedy segment into a national phenomenon, and the Roy D. Mercer recordings were released as comedy albums. The Tulsa Press Club gave the pair its Radio Icon Award in 2005, and the OAB nominated them numerous times for morning show personality honors…