Calvin Douglas Banks Jr. (June 9, 1958 – April 11, 2016) was an American radio personality and host of The Doug Banks Radio Show. Career highlights The Philadelphia-born, Detroit-raised Banks began his radio career broadcasting on his high school's radio station. Local station WDRQ took notice of his talent and offered him a spot as a temporary late-night weekend disc jockey for a country music station. After high school, he successfully turned his temporary trial into a permanent multi-year gig at KDAY in Los Angeles, California. Soon after, in April 1979 he started at KMJM-Majic 108, as "The Unknown DJ" Banks then moved on to the LA station KFI, which helped to pave the way to a morning show slot in Las Vegas at KLAV. Doug's next two stops were KDIA in Oakland, California, and WBMX (now WVAZ) in Chicago, Illinois. From 1986 to 1995, Banks did nights, mornings, and afternoons for WGCI-FM in Chicago. It was at WGCI where Doug became good friends with Tom Joyner and they became known as "Turntable Brothers". After Tom Joyner started his nationally syndicated show with ABC Radio Networks, Tom chose Doug Banks to be his "fill in" when Tom would take vacations. The affiliates were quickly calling ABC Radio Network to report that listeners were flooding the stations with calls about how much they loved Doug. Next, in 1995 the ABC Radio Network offered Banks the opportunity to do a nationally syndicated show of his own. Originally, Banks started with an afternoon show from the same studio as the "Tom Joyner Morning Show." This original show had AJ Parker as his sidekick, and Jeff Tyler came from The Tom Joyner Show to become Doug's studio engineer (Jeff stayed with Doug until his death in 2016). In 1997, Banks wanted to move to a morning show instead and the studio across the hall from Joyner's was made ready. The new show, hosted by Banks along with new sidekick DeDe McGuire, rose to become one of the top-rated syndicated urban programs in America. WBLS New York was the flagship station. This era was the high point of Doug's career, and included producers Gary Saunders and Eurro Rice. Other on air talent in this era included Coco Budda, Rickey Smiley, JJ Jackson, and Rudy Rush. His phone producer Marcelina Olan, and Kevin Woodson (the voice of Miss Leonard, Revered Jackson, Minister Farrakhan and many others)