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A Radio Station Or On-Air Personality That You Used To Listen To Back In The Day

HenryOchs

HenryOchs

A radio station or On-Air Personality that you used to listen to way back when?

I used to listen to 1170 KLOK way back in the 1980's when I was in High School and also when I was starting work at Jack-In-The-Box!
I loved listening to all of their DJ's, including Jim Phillips, Ralph Hasty and Lissa Kressler.
 
KFOG was an excellent station for many years. The presentation and playlist was superior to most other Commercial Rock formats...
 
Mark McKay on KCMO FM
Jim on KLTH FM (don't remember his last name but he did afternoons in the late 80s and was on the station til it flipped in the 90s)
David Lawrence on WDAF AM
Mike Austin and his cohost on KCHZ FM, and then him solo when his cohost got her own late night Saturday show on the station
Chuck Taylor and Sarah on KLZR
Todd and Tyler in Omaha (don't remember the station)
 
Jean Shepherd.

I would bet few on the west coast ever heard of him, much less heard any of his live programs. He was on WOR in New York City back in the '60s and '70s. He was not a disk jockey, but he was a unique broadcaster, a raconteur who could weave stories out of nothing and then bring them home by the end of his allotted time. (Which was 45 minutes an evening, 5 nights a week, plus a 90 minute live performance from a Greenwich Village nightclub each Saturday evening. And WOR's 50Kw signal traveled up and down the east coast, so many "back East" listeners would be familiar with him.)

Shep is the guy who wrote the screenplay for the movie A Christmas Story (the one with Ralphie and the BB gun). He also narrates the movie as the adult version of Ralphie.
 
Jonah Denz on KOME (70s/80s)

Russ Syracuse (60s)

Tom Donahue (60s)

last one is a vague memory...I believe her name was Ruby Peterson, and she did all-nighter on KCBS right before they went news 24/7. I might have the name wrong, but it might spur interesting discussion anyway.
 
Yes, Ruby Petersen had a KCBS show in late 80s/early 90s...after giving up her role as 'Miss Nancy' on KTVU's 'Romper Room'.
 
Sometimes an announcer with a distinctive "accent" continues in my memory more than their names. That brief stint of KKCY "The CIty" had an Irish guy whose name I forget who was "brilliant" to listen to. And during my high school years in Toledo OH, the British-accented "Sir Bernard J Quayle" on top 40 WOHO got some attention in the evenings away from the louder-than-God folks at CKLW.
But among Bay Area talk hosts, I always tried to listen when Christine Craft filled in on KGO and I think she had her own shift on KFBK Sacramento until she called out one of the conservative agitator congressmen on the air and the management wouldn't have it. Christine knew her stuff, had inside info on Sacramento politics, and could have been a real catch for KQED to hire.
 
HenryOchs said:
A radio station or On-Air Personality that you used to listen to way back when?

I used to listen to 1170 KLOK way back in the 1980's when I was in High School and also when I was starting work at Jack-In-The-Box!
I loved listening to all of their DJ's, including Jim Phillips, Ralph Hasty and Lissa Kressler.
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I still listen to KNBR some, but I sure do miss Pete Franklin, Gary Radnich, and Ralph Barbieri
 
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