4-2-14
Well not exactly. The afternoon star on "102.5 The Bone" (WHPT-FM) tells The Tampa Bay Times he's retiring the name Cowhead and will now call his program, The Mike Calta Show. The 42-year-old said, "I have two kids now and I don't ever want my 14-month-old daughter to hear the name Cowhead, unless maybe she is cashing some huge check from my will. Then she can know."
Calta told the paper it's a different time in radio. "When I started at the Power Pig (currently 93.3. FLZ-FM), everybody had those types of names. I was Big Mike for a while but that didn't really stick. Then they asked me if I ever had any nicknames in high school and I remembered that a few people called me Cowhead and it sort of stuck. The minute I said it I immediately regretted it. "I think times change. Even the Power Pig changed its name. As times change and you age, it just gets silly."
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