22-04-2025
Reflecting on the stellar career of legendary Erie DJ Mojo McKay
Erie has lost another radio legend. Longtime morning radio DJ Mojo McKay has died.
He was the longtime morning man on Rocket 105. For decades, much of Erie woke up to Mojo McKay on Rocket.
He had a vast knowledge of rock and roll and he was popular because of his whacky sense of humor, poking fun a most anything, his energetic style and his knowledge of Erie history and politics.
He was also known to have fun with live in-studio guests.
'He invited me onto the rocket morning show, and I immediately became a friend of the show, and he had me back a few other times, and he couldn't have been more of a gracious guy,' said Meteorologist and guest Craig Flint.
Longtime radio DJ Joe Lang was a Boston Store studio colleague of McKay's for many years.
He said McKay shook the local radio market, which at the time was full of what Lang called gentleman DJs.
'They were like 'good morning, 6:35, it's cloudy' but then Mojo came in and it went boom. He did all these wacky stunts, did these things on the air. Everyone knows his story. He proposed to his wife on the air, so it was something we had never seen in Erie before,' Lang recalled.
And Lang said McKay was just as popular off the air.
'In a market like this, you can transcend radio. You see them at restaurants, bars, out buying clothes and stuff like that, and when you do, they would always stop and talk. You never wanted to go anywhere with Mojo because you'd never get there,' he continued.
Mojo McKay's career ended last August when he was furloughed by iHeart Media in a nationwide layoff.
His many radio fans, and those who knew him best, even guests on his show, knew McKay had the talent to work anywhere in the country. But he remained an ambassador for Erie.
'You know a lot of people aspire to move on to these bigger markets, and Moj was like, no, I'm good here, I'm good here,' Lang went on to say.
Mojo McKay, whose real name is Michael Sroka, was a native of Olean, NY, and came to the area to attend Edinboro University. He was 62.
He is survived by his son, Jack, and a sister, Carol.
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