From KMOJ to BET: Local radio personality steps into national TV spotlight
By Charles Hallman, Staff Writer
June 28, 2012
Miss Georgia entertains her on-air radio audience every midday at KMOJ-FM. She recently took her local celebrity status to the Big Apple as a guest judge on BET’s 106 & Park show.
Georgia Ellyse, a St. Paul native, appeared on the cable network’s June 8 broadcast as one of three judges. “They have a segment on Fridays called ‘Freestyle Friday,’ she explains in an interview with the MSR prior to her appearance. “They bring in two contestants to rap and they battle against each other.”
This isn’t her first time being asked to decide a musical winner: Miss Georgia earlier judged a local “battle competition” last month, but as for the national stage, “It was something that I have been thinking about and wanted to do for a long time,” she points out. “I knocked on the door, and the door opened for me.”
Her go-get-it-ness and versatility impresses her fellow co-workers and top station officials. “All she did was send an email and make a phone call,” notes KMOJ Program Director Candice Breedlove. “It is something that all of our personalities can do.”