(From the "L-A Times")
Stanley L. Spero, a longtime executive at radio station KMPC who in 1961 helped Gene Autry quickly assemble a professional baseball team called the Los Angeles Angels, has died. He was 86.
Gary Owens, the longtime KMPC personality who is now at KKGO, called his 20 years working for Autry and Spero "radio heaven."
Johnny Grant, a former on-air personality at KMPC and the longtime honorary mayor of Hollywood, told The Times on Monday that Spero's "influence will be felt around L.A. radio for a long time."
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Stanley L. Spero, a longtime executive at radio station KMPC who in 1961 helped Gene Autry quickly assemble a professional baseball team called the Los Angeles Angels, has died. He was 86.
Gary Owens, the longtime KMPC personality who is now at KKGO, called his 20 years working for Autry and Spero "radio heaven."
Johnny Grant, a former on-air personality at KMPC and the longtime honorary mayor of Hollywood, told The Times on Monday that Spero's "influence will be felt around L.A. radio for a long time."
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-spero18jul18,1,6357192.story?coll=la-news-obituaries
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