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A Question On Herb Jepko?

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I remember before Larry King, there was an all night guy by the name of "Herb Jepko"? He was on the air from the 1960's until the 1970's on KSL-1160 Salt Lake City, Utah. He was on briefly on national radio with Mutual in the 70's. I believe his show was called "Nitecap"? As I recall, in 1980, some Herb Jepko associates started a similar show on San Diego's KMJC-910 in 1980. Herb Jepko returned on the air in 1982 on KLUB-570 Salt Lake City, Utah as well as 2 affiliates:KBOI-670 Boise, Idaho and KBCQ-1020 Roswell, New Mexico. Does anyone know what has becomed of Herb today? Are any of his shows available on CD or downloadable on the internet?
 
Jon Wolfert of JAM Creative Productions (the Dallas jingle folks) was a big fan of Herb's and even created the first jingle for the Nightcap Radio Network back in the mid-70's. You might try dropping Jon an email via the JAM website and see if he has any ideas on where to find Jepko's shows. I don't know if he'll have any time to reply but at least you have a shot there.
 
As a young boy who couldn't sleep (won't go into those adolescent reasons here), I rememer listening to the Herb Jepko show on Bonneveille KIRO in the the 1970's. I believe this was one of the first nationwide nightime radio shows. Rememer it to be terribly inane and unimportant with callers usuallly talking about absoluely nothing, and Herb encouraging the "nothingness". Hate to say, but it was the perfect show to put me to sleep, and maybe utlimately, that was the point! The show eventually became "Larry King", and I was once again awake, and was once again an adolescent who couldn't sleep. This time, my actions were not as predictiable! Oh Well. Eventually I was back asleep. :)
 
Larry King didn't replace Jepko on Mutual. Long John Nebel's WMCA/NYC program
replaced Nitecap on Mutual, although I believe Herb's show did continue. Nebel was
replaced by King on MBS because Long John was suffering from cancer. Mutual wanted him to take the show on the road, but he was too ill; so King took the overnight slot on Mutual and Long John Nebel continued locally on WMCA until he died. Long John Nebel was terrific.
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terry morgan said:
Larry King didn't replace Jepko on Mutual. Long John Nebel's WMCA/NYC program
replaced Nitecap on Mutual, although I believe Herb's show did continue. Nebel was
replaced by King on MBS because Long John was suffering from cancer. Mutual wanted him to take the show on the road, but he was too ill; so King took the overnight slot on Mutual and Long John Nebel continued locally on WMCA until he died. Long John Nebel was terrific.
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Yes, I am aware of Long John. I said, "eventually" became Larry King. Either way, if I'm not mistaken, this was the formative years of nationwide syndicated radio. I had the opportunity to ask Larry a question live on the air when he did his show live in Seattle from the Sheraton in 1986. I was in my mid-20's, and briefly explained that I had worked in radio for about 8 years, and his gruff response I will always remember..."when did you start, when you were three!?!" I will never forget it! Despite the parodies and jokes, I think Larry is definitely (excuse the pun) still the King!
 
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