THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, June 19, 1994 TAG: 9406180035
SECTION: DAILY BREAK PAGE: E11 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: By MARK MOBLEY, STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: 940619 LENGTH: Short
Duplicating a stunt first staged by a Chicago radio station some years ago, Griffiths will undergo a vasectomy Monday during the ``Tommy & The Bull'' morning show on FM99.
{REST} The procedure will be broadcast live at 9 a.m. from the Chesapeake office of Tidewater Urology. Both Griffiths and the attending physician, Dr. Joseph J. Konefal, will be heard during the operation.
Griffiths ``is doing it because he wants to get it done,'' said his on-air partner, Henry ``The Bull'' Del Toro. Griffiths, 34, has a young son and a stepdaughter.
``It's a way of letting our listeners celebrate Father's Day with Tommy,'' Del Toro said. ``So many men have gone through it. They can relate to it.''
Del Toro promised to provide tasteful commentary.
``I'm going to try to be as clinical as possible,'' he said. ``I'm prepared to say and do things without saying and doing things in the way people are used to me saying them. I'll be the Harry Caray of urology.''
Similar on-air vasectomies have been performed by Chicago's WLUP and other stations.
WNOR's promotional slogan, referring to its bankable popularity among young men, is ``We Deliver the Male.'' by CNB