KWNK also carried Johnny Ortiz's boxing program and Chef Vern Lanegrasse's daily cooking show.
The latter came during my brief tenure as KWNK's original talk format OM/PD.
Here is what I remember of the schedule from January, 1989:
6:00-9:00am - K.M. Richards Morning Show (interviews, features, news on hour/half-hour)
9:00-11:00am - Rush Limbaugh (live via satellite from WABC)
11:00am-Noon - Cooking With The Hollywood Chef (pre-recorded in KWNK studios most days, usually live one day each week, two repeats per week; my recollection is that Vern would come in, record one show in the morning, do a live show that day which was also recorded for repeat airings, then recorded a second show in the afternoon)
Noon-3:00pm - Dr. Laura Schlessinger (live from KWNK)
3:00-4:00pm - Sonny Block (investment guru, live from WOR via satellite)
4:00-7:00pm - Sally Jessy Raphael (ABC TalkRadio)
7:00-8:00pm - Sportsnight (local, with Randy Kerdoon ... his first gig in the L.A. market; he was also part of the morning show)
8:00-10:00pm - some national sports talk show that I can't remember the name of
10:00pm-1:00am - Sally Jessy Raphael replay (I cannot remember why we couldn't record Tom Snyder's program and play it back then instead)
1:00-2:00am - whatever Sun Radio Network was repeating in that slot ... Sonny Block, I think
2:00-6:00am - Sun Radio Network's morning news/features program (again, the name escapes me), which we carried simply because it was live to the east coast at that hour, which beat a taped replay of anything else
ABC Entertainment Network news at :00 all hours.
Weekends are when I really get fuzzy about the schedule, mainly because it kept changing. About six to eight hours per weekend were paid infomercials, including one Valley business trying to hawk those still-novel "PCs". Two Saturday programs that we had run prior to 1989 stayed on the schedule; one was a celebrity interview program with the inexplicable title "Dining With Arlene" and the second was a travel program. The hostess of the former, Arlene Wolff, had to make a major (for her) adjustment when we went all-talk; she had formerly just gone non-stop from 10:00am to noon but I decreed that the network news on the hour was sacred so she had to (gasp) back-time to the 11:00 ABC feed. Of course, by the second week she was ready to admit that the short break gave her a chance to stand up, walk around, and get a fresh cup of coffee and then praised my "brilliance" for creating that opportunity for her. She lasted the longest of any of the KWNK talk shows, finally departing in 1995 when 670 became a repeater (and origin point for Jim Rome) of XETRA in Tijuana. They later let her come back for a one-hour weekly program in a late afternoon timeslot.
I also remember carrying several of Sun Radio Network's weekend shows; one, which aired right before Arlene, was about pet care and another, on Sunday morning, was similar to NPR's "Car Talk". We also carried a Sunday evening program via satellite called "Family Talk" (or something like that) which was produced by a religious organization but was remarkably light on the Christian comments. There was also anywhere from four to eight hours a week of "The Best of Dr. Laura", with her insisting on choosing which hours of her live show re-aired; of course, she thought many more hours were worth it than we had holes in the schedule, which meant there was usually about 20 hours of tape sitting on the credenza in my office as a backlog.
ABC gave us an exemption to carry all the public affairs programs (even the ones that were on their own KABC and KLOS at the time) on Saturday and Sunday, provided we didn't air any at the exact same times as the other stations in the market and didn't air any later than 8:00am or before 11:00pm. I'm pretty sure that in 1989, that would have been the long-running "Perspective", Howard Cosell's weekend interview show, and Hal Bruno's Washington DC-based political news and commentary program. I recall that we cheated slightly by running all of them in a block overnight Saturday night in addition to the morning airings, and I also recall that ABC couldn't have cared less that we did.
One final memory: When EIB moved Limbaugh to KFI, we replaced him with Sun Network's flagship program "For The People", hosted by network founder Chuck Harder. I recall that being a three-hour program, compared to Rush being only two at the time, and I believe Vern Lanegrasse departed KWNK at that time (his "schedule" as noted above was becoming difficult to put up with). Harder is still around, having survived not only his network being bought out and his show unceremoniously dumped but he went on to stints on other networks until an IRS audit silenced him for a while around 2009; these days he is part of the TalkStar network's lineup, although he is on in the evenings now, rather than middays.
And I forgot (but am adding via an edit) that we had a five-hour block of old radio programs on Saturday nights.
If any of you are going to ask me other questions about KWNK, please phrase them in a way that will jog my memory as a quarter-century has passed and I don't remember a lot of the little details anymore.
