[6] Rhyner was raised in the Oak Cliff district of Dallas, and he graduated from Kimball High School in 1968.
[11] Rhyner started at KZEW in 1979 as a news intern and was shortly promoted to the assistant of the program director, Tom Owens.
[12] In 1982 at KZEW, he received a letter from the jailed John Hinckley, Jr., attempted presidential assassin, who turned out to be a fan.
He was responsible for selecting most of the original lineup, including George Dunham, Craig Miller, and Greg Williams.
[16] He styles his public personality as "The Old Grey Wolf",[17] a cantankerous old fart[18] and baseball fan in a football crazy world.