Jimmy Baron

Who is Jimmy Baron?

Jimmy Baron, is an American disc jockey on commercial radio. He has also acted in several TV shows and movies from 1980 to 1985. Films include Risky Business, The Sure Thing, and Heart Like a Wheel. Television work includes Facts Of Life, Quincy, M.E., Hart to Hart, and M*A*S*H.

Baron was born in Chicago, Illinois. He began his radio career in Oxnard, California in 1990 at KZTR FM as half of the Mac and Jimmy Morning Show, along with Jeff McMurray. In August of that year he moved to San Diego to produce the Stevens & Grdnic Morning Show on Y95. In March 1991 he went cross-town to produce the Dawn Patrol with Dave Rickards, Shelly Dunn, and Cookie "Chainsaw" Randolph on KGB-FM. He left in August 1992 to move back to Chicago, producing the legendary Jonathon Brandmeier Showgram on WLUP-FM.

He joined 99X in Atlanta in 1993 as part of the morning show with Leslie Fram and Sean Demery, eventually named The Morning X. Baron stayed with the morning show through its various changes: The Morning X with Barnes, Leslie and Jimmy; The Don Miller Morning Show; The Toucher, Jimmy, and Leslie Morning Show; and Mornings with Axel, Jimmy, and Leslie.