Was Lloyd Lindsay Young part of the Dr. Don Show on KFRC?
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Lloyd Lindsay Young
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Yes. Lloyd did the weather, not just for DDR, but for the station as a whole. In other dayparts, he'd only appear during newscasts. In mornings, his forecast would be in the newscast and there would be occasional interaction with DDR.
I believe the years for Lloyd were 1982-1984.
I'm not sure if it was just a one-off, but tape exists of Lloyd filling in for DDR on Memorial Day, 1982.
The other jocks would work Lloyd references into the weather occasionally. I remember Bill Lee doing this gem:
"Before Lloyd Linsday Young told Pete Giddings to go to hell, he came over to the studio and told me to expect a bit of a warm spell. Up to NINETY in the inland areas...seventy-seven's what it'll reach at the beach."
(Pete Giddings was the chief meterologist at KGO-TV)
Giddings did M-F afternoons/evenings/late nights on KGO-TV/7 and Lloyd did weekends and fill-ins. He hated Pete, but in fairness, so did everyone else there. It was tough to fit into the same room as Pete and his ego.
That's what happens when you pay your weather guy $800,000 a year in the early 1980s ($2.6 million in today's money).
KGO had a way of spoiling key talent.
The story circulating in '81-'82, when I was beginning my TV career in Reno, was that Van Amburg hated a certain female co-anchor so much that he had his agent negotiate a clause---KGO would pay Van a $10,000 penalty anytime she entered the studio while he was on the air. It's hard to imagine from today's perspective a station saying "yes" to that---but at that moment, Van was enormously powerful.
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