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Howard Neal and David G Hall were the bosses back when Cox owned the station. They oversaw the conversion to talk radio format and the introduction of the Rush Limbaugh problem. Hannity was as far as I know only on KFI as a back-up host for Limbaugh - when he got his own program it was always on KABC. Dr Laura followed Limbaugh in the Neal/Hall era. Hall also moved Bill Handel to mornings where he has been #1 ever since. cox sold to station and KOST as well to a company which inturn was acquired by Clear Channel (now IHeart Media).

KFI, KEIB, and Limbaugh's EIB network (actually a Premiere syndication network) are now all part of iHeart Media; so are Coast to Coast and Glen Beck plus several of the top four FM stations in Los Angeles.. Robin Bertolucci, assisted by Neil Saavadra (also a talk show host n KFI his own right and in syndication thru Premiere with the Jesus Christ show), handle programming for iheart media's Los Angeles cluster. I don't know if that includes San Diego and the Inland Empire stations as well, but the KFI news team also anchors some of the newscasts on KOGO. I understand thjere is a shared traffic center in Long Beach as well - I'm not clear as to how many of KFI's traffic reports are actually done from the IHeart studios in Burbank and how many from Long Beach or if its shared.
 
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There will be no LARadio.com column on April 7 and, goshdarnit, I have to post my Rewind feature somewhere so all my effort isn't for naught (whatever a "naught" is). RadioDiscussions now has the "exclusive"---and a few days early too!

LARadio Rewind: April 7, 2012. Morris O'Kelly, known on the air as Mo'Kelly, begins hosting a two-hour Saturday evening program on KFI, declaring that "opinions are as diverse as the population and I think we're going to shed light on issues that really matter." O'Kelly had previously served as executive producer of Diverse L.A., a three-hour daily program that aired for three weeks on KTLK and focused on the concerns of Asians, Latinos and African-Americans. O'Kelly graduated from South High School in Torrance and Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. As a writer and political commentator, he has contributed to CNN, the BBC, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and many other media outlets. He also writes a syndicated column, The Mo'Kelly Report, and from 2005 to 2010 produced Tavis Smiley's weekly program for Public Radio International. The Mo'Kelly Show airs on KFI from 6 to 8 pm every Saturday. His website is http://www.mrmokelly.com
 
LARadioRewind said:
There will be no LARadio.com column on April 7 and, goshdarnit, I have to post my Rewind feature somewhere so all my effort isn't for naught (whatever a "naught" is). RadioDiscussions now has the "exclusive"---and a few days early too!
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You ever think about making Rewind a blog, Steve?
 
For 30 years I've been friends Bill Earl, official KRLA historian and author of Dream-House and When Radio Was Boss, and I frequently contributed stories to his Classic DJ & Radio Scrapbook blog...but he had to discontinue the blog in 2009 because he had posted so many pictures and surveys and record covers, he used up his 1024 MB of space. A page with several links is still around at http://classicdjradioscrapbook.blogspot.com/

I've considered starting a Rewind blog but I don't even have a Facebook page. I waste all my time on message boards. :) I don't know how much effort or expense would be involved in maintaining a blog, nor do I think the Rewind paragraphs even deserve to be on a blog. If Don ever halts LARadio.com---he's "retired" about as many times and Cher and Frank Sinatra retired!---perhaps Boz could establish a Rewind thread here. I could submit the columns and he could post them. He would be the only one to post on the thread. Well...maybe he could allow you and Michael and David and Jim Hilliker to post too, since you all are able to provide details and data that I do not have access to.
 
I know the powers that be would have a sh#t fit but they need to bring bak John Ziegler. The dynamic tension in be studio among staff would be great radio.
 
Nothing makes for a successful board like restricing the posters.

Actually, what you're describing is more of a club or a clique.
 
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Nothing makes for a successful board like restricing the posters.

Actually, what you're describing is more of a club or a clique.
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I was just suggesting an option to Steve as Don's "publication" schedule seems to be leaving him with Rewind articles which are written but then fall on a day Don doesn't create a new column. As such, Steve's taking the idea a bit farther in suggesting a place here on RD for it isn't so far-fetched, although my suggestion would be for Steve to be the only one who could originate a thread in a Rewind section, with anyone able to respond to a posted article. It would be cleaner because every thread would start with one of Steve's articles, but does not restrict discussion of an article once published.
 
My original concept was to have a "read-only" Rewind thread similar to LARadio.com but I like K.M.'s idea of me being able to start a thread and everyone else being able to respond. I write the columns a week in advance and Don does not always give me more than a one-day notice when he's going on hiatus. Don occasionally makes changes to what I write. Sometimes he adds some detail, which is fine, but sometimes he makes changes which do not make sense. For example, when I wrote on March 27 that "the station [93.9] became KXOS," he added a word: "The station now became KXOS." I saw no reason to put the adverb "now" in a sentence that is in past tense. And nineteen words near the end of the April 3 Rewind about the 1500 frequency somehow disappeared in the ether between my computer and Don's server, so he had to reword two sentence fragments into a complete sentence. It was then complete...but it made little sense. I re-sent that Rewind and it is now on LARadio.com....but I certainly looked dumb until Don and I could figure out what happened and make the correction. I can look dumb all by myself without any help from a malfunctioning e-mail system!

If we had a Rewind thread here, would it be ongoing or would it be one per day? On the Cruciverb.com site for crossword puzzle fans, one man likes to write about the Los Angeles Times crosswords and he starts a new thread each day. That means 365 or 366 threads each year. At Don's request, this year I have written only one paragraph each day---no celebrity birthdays or music trivia---and the focus is exclusively on Los Angeles radio. Maybe we could have a "This Day In Radio" thread which would feature the biggest radio stories from across the nation instead of just Los Angeles. Maybe.....

Radio Rewind: April 7

2011 - KKSF in San Francisco switches from classic rock to classic hits.
2002 - Steven Van Zant's Underground Garage debuts on 23 stations.
1970 - Wayne Perkey takes over the morning show at WHAS in Louisville.
1961 - Fibber McGee & Molly co-star Marian Jordan dies of cancer at 62.
1956 - Alan Freed's Rock & Roll Dance Party premieres on CBS Radio.
1925 - Capital Times publisher William Evjue launches WIBA in Madison.
 
C2C is a great show. This guy talks about stuff the lame stream media refuses to report. Now if they would just do something about the 1-3 pm and 7-10 pm programming, and I would be a happy listener.
 
Coast to Coast was off the air for a couple of months where I live. Contrary to those who say "a local station doesn't need to carry C2C, after all, the local listeners can listen to it by skywave from Des Moines", the local listeners were furious. They emphatically did not want to listen online, and certainly didn't want to DX it from somewhere else. They wanted it with a solid signal on their bedside clock radio.
 
Conway and Steckler are no more. Tim Conway Jr. hosted evenings at KLSX from 1997 until 2009. He was teamed with Doug Steckler until 2005, then was joined by Brian Whitman for three years. Conway worked solo for a year and moved to the evening spot at KFI after KLSX switched to a CHR format as AMP Radio (now KAMP). Since 2011, Steckler had been part of the Friday programs. On July 24, he announced that he was leaving. He called Conway "the funniest, nicest guy in radio" and said, "We had more fun than should be legal." Conway speculated that Steckler wants to devote more time to his career as a television comedy writer. Steckler has written for SCTV, The Martin Short Show and other series.
 
The last time I saw Steckler he looked in pretty bad shape. I wonder if there is another reason for his departure? He was only working one day a week at KFI, how much of a distraction could that have been for his other creative endeavors?
 
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The last time I saw Steckler he looked in pretty bad shape. I wonder if there is another reason for his departure?
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Well, Steve did say that Tim's statement about devoting more time to writing for television was speculation. If Doug is in failing health, it is for him to reveal or keep private. Thus far, it appears he has made no statements either way.
 
Boy I wish Steckler would return to co-host the Friday show. Last Friday TC Jr. Show consisted of a replay Donald Trumps Mobile Alabama speech in its entirety!
 
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