RIP, Larry Himmel

[DoctorWu]

Just learned this AM that longtime radio and TV personality Larry Himmel passed this morning. He had cancer, but kept it under wraps.

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/San-Diego-Broadcaster-Larry-Himmel-Dies-Cancer-281770371.html

We'll miss you, Larry.

 

[michael hagerty]

Just learned this AM that longtime radio and TV personality Larry Himmel passed this morning. He had cancer, but kept it under wraps.

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/San-Diego-Broadcaster-Larry-Himmel-Dies-Cancer-281770371.html

We'll miss you, Larry.

I missed most of Larry's TV career...but loved him as The Cruiser (with "Bootleg Homework") on KGB in the mid-70s.

 

[Bob Hudson]

I missed most of Larry's TV career...but loved him as The Cruiser (with "Bootleg Homework") on KGB in the mid-70s.

He got some national press coverage for that. The coverage of his death did underplay his success in radio: for years I did not think of him as a TV personality, but as a radio personality who happened to do bits for a TV station. That may be why he had the success he did in TV - he brought the intimacy of radio to a medium where the focus was usually on, "How does my hair look and how can I move up to Los Angeles, New York, the network, etc.?"

 

[michael hagerty]

He got some national press coverage for that. The coverage of his death did underplay his success in radio: for years I did not think of him as a TV personality, but as a radio personality who happened to do bits for a TV station. That may be why he had the success he did in TV - he brought the intimacy of radio to a medium where the focus was usually on, "How does my hair look and how can I move up to Los Angeles, New York, the network, etc.?"

Could be, Bob. That would also explain Clark Anthony's fairly long run on TV.