I am speculating she sees the writing on the wall and wants to leave on her terms not ihearts just a guess or maybe she just wants to move on. But who knows...
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I stumbled upon 103.5 Kost tonight and it is Karen Sharpes last show on kost. Today is October 10 2025. She has been doing it 38 years...
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That's a lot of Love Songs along...... the KOST.
Maybe she’s had enough of silly love songs!
Could be
It could be a well-deserved retirement. It is also the Friday of a week-long nationwide reduction in force at iHeart.
Making Karen’s last show tonight instead of sending her out the door with a box at noon Tuesday looks nicer and buries any meaningful press or social buzz until Monday.
Making Karen’s last show tonight instead of sending her out the door with a box at noon Tuesday looks nicer and buries any meaningful press or social buzz until Monday.
Here comes Delilah...who does basically the same thing.
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She use to be in the La market but not in quite sometime. We will see if she makes a return.
I believe Karen Sharp on KOST was the last *local* nighttime love songs show left anywhere in the US. I posted a thread about this a year or two ago and received no word to the contrary. End of an era! I wish I had known in advance; I would have recorded an aircheck as I did for David Allan Boucher's last show on WMJX Boston on 7/1/2022.
Back in the 90s, before the rise of Delilah in syndication, most every AC station had their own similar local love songs show.
Back in the 90s, before the rise of Delilah in syndication, most every AC station had their own similar local love songs show.
No, there's still a local show on San Francisco's 96.5/KOIT (Bonneville). (I'd say "live and local", but in truth I don't know if it's voice tracked or actually still live.) Delilah airs on the competition, 98.1/KISQ "The Breeze" (iHeart).
And here’s the answer from Mark Wallengren’s Facebook page:
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
I must be getting old. Three of the six in that picture are people I have known personally for years and years.
Everyone knows... She was part of the iHeart layoffs, but given the opportunity to go out gracefully unlike many others.
In addition, because of her seniority, she will get a nice severance payment.
Unless they've changed the severance structure, it should be a month for every year, which would give her almost three years' salary.
Well they didn't replace Karen with Delilah. Some guy I have heard part time.
Paul Kelley
They'll take a few weeks to let the dust settle with fill-ins. Outside of launching the Breakfast Club immediately in Philadelphia yesterday, that is standard operating procedure for iHeart following layoffs and the planned addition of syndication.
That didn't stop her from referring to iHeart as 'No Heart' in her post on FB.
As formulaic as some have accused KOST of being, I still cannot help, at moments like this, being in complete awe at how long its format, and its core stable of talent, lasted. This kind of stability and endurance is so unusual in the world of radio. JK was a magician.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
I will pass along your compliment next time I talk with him.
I will also share what he once told me is part of his philosophy: A good programmer can hear the station in their head before even starting to create it.