Bubba the Love Sponge (born Todd Alan Clem[1] on April 21, 1966) is an American radio personality. He is the host of The Bubba the Love Sponge Show on Howard 101 on Sirius XM Radio, an uncensored satellite radio service on Fridays, and on various Cox Radio and Beasley Broadcast Group stations.Bubba began broadcasting a live morning show from Tampa radio station WHPT (102.5 "The Bone") on January 8, 2008 which was simulcast on the Jacksonville, Florida radio station WFYV (104.5 FM).[3] During the second quarter of 2008, Bubba's show received a number one rating [4] in his home market of Tampa. Cox Radio then expanded its broadcast of the Bubba the Love Sponge show to include four more radio stations covering the cities of Miami, Orlando, Ft. Myers and Richmond.
In December 2008, Bubba extended his contract with Sirius/XM for another 2 years. The contract consists of a playing of the "raw tapes" of his terrestrial morning show. This means that if a caller curses, listeners of the Sirius show will hear the cursing, followed by an apology, or the hosts reminding they can't say such words on the radio. If there is an uncensored comedy bit played, the bit is "cleaned up" for terrestrial radio, but the original uncensored bit is usually played on Sirius. On Friday mornings at 10 AM ET, Bubba is live on SiriusXM This show re-airs at 3 PM ET in the usual afternoon timeslot and again in the usual overnight slot at 1 AM ET. He also can do a show on Howard 101 on Monday nights at 7 PM ET, but this special show is very rare.
In January 2009, Cox Radio stations WHDR-FM Miami (93 Rock), WHTQ-FM Orlando (96.5), WZLR Dayton, Ohio (95.3) and WDYL Richmond (Y101), along with Beasley Broadcast Group station WRXK-FM Ft. Myers (96 K-Rock), also began broadcasting the Bubba the Love Sponge Show. Bubba's show is broadcast each day with a 60-second delay from Bubba's custom, multimedia studio in Tampa.
On January 3, 2010, Bubba announced via his Twitter account that he had signed with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as a backstage interviewer.[5][6] He made his debut the following day on the special live, three-hour, Monday night edition of TNA Impact!, participating in four short backstage segments.[7]
On January 16, 2010, Bubba made remarks on his twitter account that were disparaging of Haiti's struggle to recover from the January 12 earthquake. Although he later apologized, his tweets created a rift between himself and TNA management, and for a while he was not used by the company on their television broadcast.[8][9][10]
On January 19, 2010, Bubba claimed that he had been blind-sided and physically assaulted by Awesome Kong while backstage for the tapings of TNA Impact! the previous day, claims substantiated on his program by TNA's Hulk Hogan[citation needed]. According to all three, the altercation was a result of the Twitter comments made by Bubba the Love Sponge concerning the Haiti relief project.[11][12] On February 25, Bubba announced that he was done with TNA Wrestling.[13] That same day, news broke that Awesome Kong, real name Kia Stevens, had filed a lawsuit against Clem for an alleged threatening phone call.[14] Bubba later joined in on the Cowhead radio show confronting Stevens, allegedly using racially charged comments.[15]
He returned to TNA television as The Band's personal interviewer in late March,[16] only to be fired from the company on April 30, 2010 stemming from the Cowhead Show incident.[17]
Currently, Bubba is the head of his own charity, which raises money for various Florida situations, including "Bikes For Badges", which honors the fallen officers of the region's various law enforcement departments.
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