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Leon Kaplan Missing on KABC September 27th.

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Tried to tune in "Motor Man" Leon Kaplan on KABC and he is among the missing. Any idea in which direction he has driven? Leon is (or was) one of KABC's few bright spots.
 
KABC airs Dodger baseball games at times. Sometimes his show is cut in half to allow the games to air, he even says that.
Today the Dodgers were on the East coast so the game would have started at 11 there and 8 here. But it was temporarily rained out so they filled in the time with infomercials until the game could begin.
 
Now that is interesting. I checked the site also and next Sunday has another game scheduled at 10 am with no mention of him being on at 8 to 10 like in the past.
I don't know then.
 
failsafe said:
KABC airs Dodger baseball games at times. Sometimes his show is cut in half to allow the games to air, he even says that.
Today the Dodgers were on the East coast so the game would have started at 11 there and 8 here. But it was temporarily rained out so they filled in the time with infomercials until the game could begin.
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failsafe said:
Now that is interesting. I checked the site also and next Sunday has another game scheduled at 10 am with no mention of him being on at 8 to 10 like in the past.
I don't know then.
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The Sunday 9/27/09 L.A. Dodgers-Pittsburgh Pirates baseball game at Pittsburgh, PA's PNC Park was scheduled to begin at 10:35am Pacific Time (1:35pm Eastern Time) with the pregame show on KABC starting at 10am Pacific Time. (Not at 8am Pacific Time/11am Eastern Time.)

Link to Dodgers schedule: http://losangeles.dodgers.mlb.com/la/downloads/y2009/2009_LAD_prelimnary-sked.pdf

But the start of the game was delayed 6 minutes (to 10:41am Pacific Time/1:41pm Eastern Time) by rain.

Link to boxscore: http://losangeles.dodgers.mlb.com/news/boxscore.jsp?gid=2009_09_27_lanmlb_pitmlb_1

Next Sunday's 10/4/09 Colorado Rockies-L.A. Dodgers baseball game at Dodger Stadium in L.A. is scheduled to begin at 1:10pm Pacific Time with the pregame show on KABC starting at 12:30pm Pacific Time. (See link to Dodgers 2009 baseball schedule above.)

With the Dodgers appearing in baseball's postseason, their National League Division Series (1st round) games will be broadcast on KABC Radio/TBS Cable TV on the following dates (times to be determined): Wed. Oct. 7th, Thu. Oct. 8th, Sat. Oct. 10th, Sun. Oct. 11th (if necessary), Tue. Oct. 13th (if necessary).

Note: program schedule posted on www.KABC.com as of 11:30pm Pacific Time on Sun. 9/27/09 combines Friday-Saturday-Sunday 9/25-26-27/09 with Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday 9/28-29-30/09, leading to confusion. Check the schedule later this week when hopefully it will be updated with the upcoming weekend's program schedule.

The listing for Sunday 9/27/09 for the 3am-10am period lists "Various Specialty Programming" (infomercials/brokered time, I assume). Leon Kaplan's program is indeed not listed, and he is not listed among the hosts on the "On-Air" list, although his podcasts are still available. So he could be "gone". Another possibility is that he took the day off in preparation for Yom Kippur (although his show would have aired several hours before the religious holiday's observance began at sundown on Sunday evening 9/27/09).
 
Yeah I too assumed the worse and did several searches on Google and couldn't find anything which I think is a good thing. I think he may just be off due to the Dodger schedule but hopefully will be back once the season is over.

In fact looking at that schedule I noticed several more changes that I wasn't aware of - Leo Terrel is back on the evenings on certain days and Joe Scarbourogh is no longer on in the late morning slot. It seems like KABC is really unsure as to where they want to go.
 
I doubt the Junkyard Messiah would disappear without any announcement. He's been around too long for that.
Maybe someone could call Lancer Automotive direct for the scoop. LOL.
 
Leon was off because they wanted to give him a day off rather than air his program for 40 minutes before the Dodgers pregame show. He'll be back... rest assured.
 
But why take him off the list of hosts and not list his show at all? This seems odd to just delete him off the website just because he is off for a week.
 
failsafe said:
I doubt the Junkyard Messiah would disappear without any announcement. He's been around too long for that.
Maybe someone could call Lancer Automotive direct for the scoop. LOL.
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LOL. I spoke with Dixie Bell, and everything is fine.

Actually, he was talking about all the emails he received, asking if he was fired. He apologized for not letting people know he was not on the air last week. He said "I'm not fired. Not yet. Don't think I will be."
 
Re: Leon Kaplan Missing on KABC?

I don't know if Leon Kaplan's on the air these days...as per today (Sunday, October 18th) show, it seems to be a repeat from one of his previous shows. Does anyone know what the scoop is?
 
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