Jed the Fish

Jed the Fish
Born
Edwin Jed Fish Gould III

(1955-07-15) July 15, 1955 (age 69)
Career
StyleDisc jockey
CountryUnited 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]

  1. ^ "Top 10 Los Angeles Radio People of 2004". LARadio.com. Don Barrett. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Born Edwin Jed Fish Gould III on July 15, 1955, Jed the Fish grew up in the beach cities of Orange County and in Casa Grande, Arizona, where at age 16 he began his first radio job at KPIN-AM.
  2. ^ Leitereg, Neal J. (June 1, 2017). "Disc jockey Jed the Fish lists his pristine Queen Anne Victorian in Pasadena". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 19, 2019. Jed Gould, the disc jockey better known as Jed the Fish, has put his Queen Anne Victorian on the market in Pasadena for $2.299 million.
  3. ^ "KROQ: an oral history by Kate Sullivan - Los Angeles Magazine November 2001". www.radiohitlist.com. Retrieved 2019-03-19.