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Saavedra, Neil: KKLA,     1990-92; KFI, 1996-2016. Neil is the marketing director at KFI and is "Jesus" on KFI's Sunday morning.
Sabo, Walter: KHJ, 1983; KRTH 1983-90, KLSX 1994-96. Walter     is president of Sabo Media. He helped with the 2011 Merlin   launch of all-News in Chicago and New York. Walt left by the end of the   year. He was responsible for the programming strategy and implementation of   all Sirius Satellite stations for 9 years. During that time he recruited the   original KROQ air staff, hired the original MTV air staff, launched the   Elvis Channel and made the first call to hire Howard Stern. He's now a talk   show host at CBS' WPHT-Philadelphia and continues to consult radio stations.
Sabol, Bob: KUTE, 1979. Unknown.
Saccacio, Jeff: KFI, 1994-96. Unknown.
Sacks,     Glenn: KRLA, 2003; KMPC, 2003-04; KTIE, 2004-06. Glenn is a men's and     fathers' issues columnist and a nationally-syndicated radio talk show host.     His radio show, His     Side with Glenn Sacks, was heard on KTIE-Inland Empire. 
Safroncikas,     Vytas: KKAR, 1971-73; KPOL, 1976-79; KNX,   2001-09 and 2011-13. Vytas was a news reporter at KNX. He left the all-News station   in September 2009. He also owns   BornAgainRadio.com, an Internet-based contemporary Christian music radio   station. He returned for part-time work in the summer of 2011 and   left at the end of 2013.
Sahl, Mort: KLAC, 1967-68; KABC, 1968. Mort     appears frequently in a one-man political satirist show.
Saint Claire, Claudine: KJOI, 1986-89; KXEZ,     1993-96. Unknown.
Saint John:   KBIG, 2007-09. Saint John joined 104.3 MY/fm for evenings in early fall 2007   and left in early 2009. He went on to KMVQ (Movin' 99.7/fm) in San   Francisco.
SAINTE, Dick: KRLA, 1969-71, pd; KHJ, 1971-72; KIIS, 1972. Born     Dick Middleton in McMinnville, Oregon, he started out in his home     state and worked at KISN-Portland and WIFE-Indianapolis and eventually     teamed up with Johnnie Darin at KGB-San Diego. His next stop was     KFRC-San Francisco in 1968. The Real Don Steele gave Dick his on-air     name, and added "e" at the end of his name in 1970 following a     suggestion by Dionne Warwick(e).
Dick joined KRLA in late 1969 and     became pd in 1971, replacing Darin. At the 30-year KRLA reunion,     host Casey Kasem said of Dick: "He had an exciting style that can     really only be equaled by Dick's long-time friend, The Real Don     Steele." Before 1971 ended, Dick became a "Boss Jock" on KHJ. He     worked at KEX-Portland in the early 1980s. Beginning in 1993, Dick worked     doing Country on KFMS-Las Vegas.
In 2004, Dick   was placed in an extended care facility in The Dalles, Oregon. A year later   he called the family [his four kids] and told them he was signing waivers to   not be given any more insulin, etc. because he was lonely and tired of being   sick. He died December 10, 2005, at the age of 67.
 “World   Famous Tom Murphy worked with Dick in 1964 at KISN in Portland. “I   last saw Dick at a KISN Reunion in 1997, although we did talk on the phone   every now and then. He was fun to be around, a great talent and good friend.   I remember in early 1970 on KRLA when Bob Dayton [noon – 3   p.m.] was told that he had to work some extra hours after his shift ended   that afternoon, as the jock who normally followed him on the air, Dick   Sainte [3 p.m. – 6 p.m.] would not be coming in to work to do his show, as   he was home sick,” emailed Bill Earl of Dream-House, and When   Radio Was BOSS. “Dayton said, ‘Looks like, I'll be filling in for Dick   Sainte this afternoon. You see, Dick is flu-ish today. He doesn't look   it...but he is.'" 
Sakellarides, Mike: KGFJ/KUTE, 1976; KPOL,     1976-78; KZLA, 1979-82; KFI/KOST, 1982-2007; KGIL, 2009-10; KTWV, 2010-17. Mike was   the original midday host at AC KOST until November 30, 2007. He works   weekends at the WAVE.
Sakrison,     Paul: KFWB/KNX, 2002-08; KLAA, 2008-17. Paul was chief engineer at the two all-News   stations until February 2008 following a major downsizing by CBS Radio. He's   chief engineer and program director at KLAA, the Angels station.
Sala, Bob: KPPC, 1969-73; KROQ, 1978. Bob     lives in Santa Rosa.
Salamon,   Ed: KGBS/KTNQ, 1978. Ed is consulting and he's authored two books on radio   history: Pittsburgh's Golden Age of Radio and WHN: When New   York City Went Country.
Salazar, Liz: KWST, 1978-82. Liz   is a nurse in     Northern California.
Salgo, Jeff: KRHM; KBIG, 1970; KLAC, 1970;     KKDJ, 1971-72; KWST/KMGG, 1982-84; KEZY, 1985-89; KROQ/KCBS/fm, 2002-15.   Since 2002, he has been the Market IT Manager for CBS Radio Los Angeles.
Salinas, Josefa: KJLH; KPWR, 1993-98; KHHT,     2002-15; KTLK, 2012-13. Josefa     workeds weekends at "Hot 92.3fm" and aired a "hot" music     news feature that ran five times a day. She was also a guest host on   KTLK. Josefa left HOT 92.3 in early February 2015, following a format flip.
Salley,   John: KKBT, 2005-06. The NBA star and co-host of the Best Damn Sports   Show Period! worked morning drive at the BEAT for almost a year. He's   now a motivational speaker and he's writing a book.
SALVATORE, Jack: KNX,     1984-2011. Jack was a news anchor at KNX for 27 years who retired in early   2011.
Several who spoke at his retirement party shared stories about     Salvatore’s tenacity and professionalism as a journalist. He was     also presented a letter from his beloved New Orleans Saints,     congratulating him on his retirement. “I love the idea that I’ll get     to play a lot more [mediocre] golf and hit the links with some old     friends,” said Salvatore.
Jack first arrived at KNX in     1984. He didn’t wait until adulthood to start working and     performing. “I was in Damn Yankees at the age of 9 for two     years, until it closed on Broadway. I actually sang the show’s big     hit, You Gotta Have Heart with the inimitable Jean     Stapleton of All in the Family fame.” He also joined the     first touring company of Bye Bye Birdie as a teenager.   
Salvatore joined the U.S. Army and started as a print     journalist in 1964. “All my friends were moving on to radio and     tv. They convinced me, because of my early acting experience to try     out for the radio and tv course, and I got in.” He started with the     American Forces Korea Network.  After the army, Salvatore moved to     Western Pennsylvania before finding a job doing both radio and tv     news in Youngstown, Ohio, “great training where I did everything and     ultimately wound up as their primary tv and radio news anchor.” 
A year later, Salvatore was offered a job at New Orleans     powerhouse WWL, as a radio news anchor during both morning and     afternoon drive. “That’s basically what ensconced me in radio. Over     the years, I did a little tv work [including KCBS/tv in L.A.], but     radio was my bailiwick, and it’s been a great ride for more than a     quarter century at KNX.” 
Asked what’s changed over his     career as a journalist for over four decades, Salvatore said “I     think it’s well documented that news has taken on more of a tabloid     tone in recent years. As an old news warhorse, I often bemoan the ‘get-it-on-the-air-first-ask-questions-later’ mentality only to have     to backtrack later on a story.” Yet he appreciates that KNX “has     tried to maintain objectivity and accuracy, with an eye toward     immediacy as well … very few times have we had to do that kind of     backtracking, and often it’s up to the grizzled, old news vets to     take a baby-step back and say ‘whoa, slow it down a tad, are we sure     about this?’”  
Salvatore likes the pace of the news nowadays, and uses one word – “Wow!” – to describe the new technologies. “The machines that can do so much. I know   I’ll never see a more forlorn picture in the KNX newsroom than the day the   computers were installed and there, by the wall, stood dozens of   typewriters, piled in a heap and ready to be tossed.  Like a massacre of old   friends.”  Salvatore recalled covering the Challenger disaster, the O. J.   Simpson trial, the North Hollywood police shootout, the Rodney King riots,   the election of Barack Obama, “too many to recall in an instant.” But what   he considers most memorable for him was “the wildfires, floods, mudslides,   quakes, riots … times our phone banks would light up with frantic, anxious   Angelenos seeking information on what’s happening, what’s likely to happen,   what they and their families should do, where they should go for help -   questions for which people turned to US for answers and, thankfully, more   often than not we could provide interviews with the officials who had the   solid facts.” He’d walk away from the microphone drained, yet Salvatore said   he left “satisfied that I had performed a very important task in keeping the   community apprised.” 
As well as being a veteran newsman, Salvatore’s presence is well established   and acknowledged by those who worked with him. Andy Ludlum, director of news   programming at KNX and KFWB, recalled the 2010 volcano eruption in Iceland,   crippling air travel throughout Europe. It was a breaking news story, but   there was one problem – no one wanted to try to pronounce “Eyjafjallajokull,” the name of the volcano. No one…except Salvatore. “Jack   was the only one who was willing to name the volcano, and he did it with   authority,” said Ludlum. “To me that takes courage – that’s why Jack’s a   pro’s pro.”
Current midday anchor Linda Nunez said “what I’ll miss most about Jack is   his guidance, his influence, and his calm demeanor. I learned from him as a   young anchor. I watched and learned from the best. He belongs on the ‘Mount   Rushmore’ of KNX anchors!”  Dave Zorn co-anchored the news with Salvatore   during the KNX morning drive. “Jack and I hit it off immediately when he   came to KNX, personally and professionally. With all due respect to the   other men and women I sat beside on-the-air at KNX, Jack was the best.”  Zorn recalls the days when the two chatted during breaks. “As is often the   case, what was said when the mikes were off was more entertaining and far   less informative, which is why it stayed off the air.  In today’s radio   world, the reverse might be more successful.” Zorn paid his tribute to his   former partner: “Jack Salvatore – respected broadcast journalist, very   clever fellow, great friend.”
Now that he’s departing the all-News station, Salvatore is already looking   forward to resetting his daily routine. “I’ve been on the overnight shift   for several years now, so my sleep habits have been royally screwed up.   It’ll take a few months to reset my internal clock from ‘nap’ to ‘full-night’s sleep’ mode.” Salvatore also wants to travel more, “especially   to a few football games featuring my beloved New Orleans Saints and anywhere   there’s a warm beach.”  But spending time with his family is Salvatore’s top   priority. “I think I’ll probably miss the adrenaline rush of some of those   hectic news moments, but it’s time to slow down and smell a few roses.” (Story was written by LARadio senior correspondent Alan Oda)
Salvin,   Linda: KLSX, 2005-08; KABC, 2008-09. Linda hosted a weekend psychic show, Visions & Solutions, on KABC.
Samuel,   Brad: KYSR, 2003-05. Brad was made station manager at "Star 98.7" in late   2003 from DOS at KFI/KLAC. He went on to be vp of sales for Clear   Channel/San Diego until September 2010. He is now the ceo of Epic Media   Consulting in San Diego.
Sanchez, Elizabeth: KFI, 1990-93.   Elizabeth is the host of the national PBS parenting show A Place of Our   Own. 
 
(Ricardo   Santiago, Joel Siegel, Bill Sommers, Matt Stevens,   and Andrew Siciliano)
Sanchez, Ernie: KIQQ,     1982-84. Unknown.
Sanchez, Maria: KFI, 1997-98; KCLU,     2003-04; KKZZ; 2006-07. Maria left afternoon drive at KVTA-Ventura in late   summer 2008. She's now hosting a morning talk show at LATalkRadio.com.
Sanchez, Ron: KHTZ, 1980-82 and 1984. Ron is local sales manager at     KZZO-Sacramento.
Sancho, Willie: KKHR, 1983; KGFJ, 1984.     Unknown.
Sandbloom, Gene: KROQ,     1993-2017. Gene is apd at KROQ.
Sandell, Clayton: KFWB, 1995-2000. In the     fall of 2000, Clayton left the all-News station for a tv     career in the Washington, DC bureau of ABC News. He is now in Denver   covering area news for ABC News.
(Seena, Karen     Slade, Kim Serafin, and Andy Stevens)
Sander, Dean: KLAC, 1961-97. Dean lives in     Northridge and is retired.
Sanders, Arlen: KXLA/KRLA, 1956-63; KEZY,     1964-65; KIEV, 1967; KFOX, 1972-77. Arlen died of a stroke in     1994. He was 64.
Sanders, Brian: KCRW,     2001-06. Brian is the program director of Arizona Public Radio KNAU in   Flagstaff.
Sanders,   Laurie: KOST, 1985-91; KXEZ, 1991-92. Laurie hosted an evening Love   Songs-theme show at KOIT-San Francisco for two decades. She left in March   2012. She is now working in Pleasanton, CA.
Sanders, Stu: KFOX,   1957-60. Stu was program director and a jock at KFOX in Long Beach. He was a   sergeant in the Army at the time.
 
 
(Bryan   Simmons, Wallace Smith, and Vytas Safroncikas)
Sandler, Nicole: KLSX, 1987; KNX/fm, 1988; KODJ, 1988-90; KLOS, 1990-94; KSCA, 1994-97; KACD,   1998-2000. Nicole left WINZ-Florida in late summer 2008.
Sandoval,   Tony: KHHT, 2010-15. Tony worked middays at HOT 92.3. He started radio in   1996 as an intern at KFRC-San Francisco while attending CCSF. In 1999, he   went to work at KISQ 98.1 San Francisco. A year later he started the Sunday   Night Oldies Show that aired in 5 markets including KHYL Sacramento. "I was   in the middle of a four a year Auto Mechanic Program when I wondered into   the college radio station and realized that would be my calling. I quit my   job at the post office and started playing Old School ever since. I’m going   into 15th year of being on the air at 98.1 KISS/fm-San Francisco." His   midday show at HOT 92.3 was dropped following a format flip in early   February 2015.
SANNES, Cherie: KHJ; KRTH,     1979-82; KMGG, 1982-83. Cherie was a registered nurse in     the Bay Area and got on KMBY-Monterey by a fluke: she became their "token woman" on-air while she was holding down her nursing job. "It     was a sought-after gig, and I'm sure it may have offended some     people that I got the job with very little experience in the     business. I took a chance and it paid off."
Born in 1946,     she told Broadcasting magazine, "I wanted to be a doctor     and did what every middle class girl does, and that is become a     registered nurse." When there was an opening at KFMB (“B-100”)-San     Diego, she auditioned on the air and became the first female jock at     the station. "B-100" pd Bobby Rich remembered, "Cherie flew down from Monterey, and we drove around town for a     couple of hours chatting. I really thought she had potential, so     although she had no audition tape, I put her on the air for a live     try-out. She did so well that the next morning on the way to the     airport I offered her the job!" In 1983 she hosted a 90-second     syndicated feature called "California Way of Life" on the California     Radio Network and worked briefly for the L.A. Traffic Network.
When she left the Southland, she relocated to the Monterey     Peninsula in 1987 and combined her radio and promotions experiences     in addition to her RN background to become the marketing and     communications director for Natividad Medical Center in Salinas,     winning numerous regional and local marketing and communications     awards. Cherie has also become a respected mixed media artist with     exhibits throughout Monterey County. She recently voiced liners for     Bobby Rich's Internet radio station. Cherie volunteers for the     Monterey County Make a Wish Foundation, serving as co-chair of the     marketing committee, working with the Chair, Dina Eastwood. She     lives with her husband Bob and four felines in Oak Hills, CA.
Santana, John: KFAC, 1977-89; KKGO/KMZT,     1989-2005; KMZT, 2006-07 and 2011. John was program director at K-Mozart   1260 AM for part of his stay at the Classical station. He returned to 1260AM   with a format flip in April 2011.
Santiago, Larry: KZLA,     2002-06. Larry worked weekends at the Country station, KZLA until a format   flip in 2006.
Santiago, Ricardo:   Ricardo is now a PIO at the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.
Santiago,   Richard: KKHJ, 1991-92; CRC 1992-1997; KLVE, 1997-2015. KLVE is now a part   of Univision Radio.
Santos,   Karla: KDAY, 2007-08. Karla is market manager for Magic Broadcasting.
Santosuosso, Michelle: KKBT, 1997-98; KHHT, 2002-03.     Michelle joined KHHT as pd in January 2002 and left her post in late 2003.   She now runs a producer/songwriter management & branding company with her   business partner, Tom Maffei (formerly of Arista Records).
Santoyo, Oscar: KOCM/KSRF, 1991-92; KWIZ,     1987-92. Oscar is now out of radio and went on to serve a     four-year term on the board of the Newport-Mesa Unified     School District.
Sargent, Kenny: KQLZ, 1991-93; KLOS, 1994-97; KLSX,     2001-03; KSPN, 2003-08; KLSX, 2008-09. Kenny hosts a syndicated car racing show that is heard     in the Antelope Valley on KAVL.
Sartori, Maxanne: KLIT, 1994. Maxanne lives     in New York and she is in the record business.
Saunders, Art: KZLA, 1983. Unknown.
Saunders, Michael: KKBT, 1998-99. Michael is     program director at "Power 105.1"-New York.
 
 
(Licia Shearer, Dusty Street, Allin Slate, and Sisanie)
Savage, Don: KACE, 1979-83;     KNAC, 1984-85. Don works for Spafax Airline Network and he is producer,   writer, interviewer and host for Inflight   audio entertainment for 25 airlines. He also does voiceover and a lot of   theatre.
Savage,     Jack: KABC, 2000-07. Jack works for one of the traffic services.
Savage,   Michael: KRLA 2004-07; KLAA, 2007-08; KGIL, 2008-09. Michael's show was   heard in morning drive at KGIL 1260 and 540 until the spring of 2009. He   continues in national syndication.
Savage,   Rick: KROQ, 2005-09. Rick works weekends and fill-in at KROQ.
SAVAGE, Tracie: KFWB,     2001-09. Tracie worked afternoons at all-News KFWB until a format flip in   early fall of 2009. She owns Tracie Savage Communications, which    provides companies with media and presentation training. She's a   motivational speaker.
Tracie is one                of those rare talents                who have excelled in                numerous venues: KFWB                anchor for almost a                decade in the 2000s, tv                anchor/reporter for                KCAL/Channel 9 and                KNBC/Channel 4. She                started her Southland                news career in 1991 from                five years at WHIO/TV in                Dayton, Ohio.
Tracie has appeared in a                spate of tv and movie                projects and starred in the                indie-production, The Bone Garden.                Production notes                describe the film: “Students, townies, and                hunks are disappearing                at an alarming rate.                Who’s responsible?                Follow us on a                thrilling, sometimes                horrific journey to                uncover the truth!”
Since KFWB laid off 85% of the              staff tin 2009 to turn              the all-News station into a Talk              station, Tracie has been              extremely busy. "I have been an              adjunct professor at LA Valley              College for the past three              years, teaching broadcasting and              film production," said Tracie. "I love it. It is so amazing."
She has been anchoring a              newscast for West Hollywood              every other week that airs on the local cable channel in West              Hollywood. "I have been on the air              for Time Warner Cable for three              years doing LIVE traffic, in              front of a green screen.
Savage was born in Chicago and              graduated from the University of              Michigan with a BS in              communications and public              relations. Her mother became a              talent agent after Tracie began              her acting career. From a start              in the mid-70s hit, Little House on the Prairie,              she had a significant role in Friday the 13th  III. Her eclectic tv              career includes guest              appearances in Love, American Style, Marcus Welby, M.D., Happy Days, and Here's Boomer. After filming Friday the 13th,              Tracie retired from acting to              pursue journalism.
Savage has covered                the Heidi Fleiss and O.                J. Simpson civil trials.                During the O. J. Simpson                trial, Savage was called                to the witness stand to                reveal her confidential                sources, and was                threatened with jail                time by Judge Ito. In                2005, Savage briefly                returned to acting and                starred in the movie Loretta.
 
Savan, Mark: KFWB, 1968-80. Mark worked   for a number of years with     Chuck Blore Enterprises.
Saxon, Mike: KRHM, 1965-68.   Mike is retired and battling MS. He lives in Northwest Florida.
Saxton,   Richard: KFWB, 2000-06. Richard was a business reporter at all-News KFWB.   After 12 years as a sportscaster, he wanted a new challenge and became a   stockbroker, which became tough after the 1987 market crash. In 1988 he   combined both career and joined Financial News Network as an anchor. He won   four Golden Mike awards. He's appeared in a number of tv shows and movies.
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SCHAFFNER,    Dr. Irving, KNJO. In the 1960's, Dr. Schaffner purchased KNJO/fm-Thousand Oaks, from Sandy Koufax, the original    owner.  The station featured adult contemporary music and local    news and community events.  Schaffner later sold KNJO to Alan Fischler for $75,000. 
Schaffner, who practiced medicine in the Conejo    Valley for over 40 years, died December 14, 2014, at his home in    Oakhurst.  He was 84 years old.
Scannell, Ed: KNX. Ed went on to work for     the Southern California Rapid Transit District.
Scarborough,   Ed: KKHR, 1983-86. Ed was pd at KGLK (The Eagle)-Houston until early summer   2009. He's now account manager/sales at Salem Communications in   Houston.
Scarborough,   Joe: KABC, 2009-10. The host of MSNBC's Morning Joe started a two-hour   syndicated show carried in L.A. by KABC. He now co-hosts Morning Joe on MSNBC.
(Rick Stuart, Jeff Salgo, Bryan Styble, and Scott St.   James)
Scarry, Rick: KEZY, 1968-72; KKDJ, 1972-73;     KDAY, 1973-74; KGIL, 1974-79; KMET, 1979-81; KRTH, 1982-83;     KHJ, 1984-85; KMET, 1986-87; KMPC/fm / KEDG, 1988; KLIT,     1989-91. Rick was a regular on Arli$$ and is seen on all the top tv   shows.
Schary,     Jill: KLAC, 1966-69. Jill Robinson is a novelist. Her most recent novel is Past     Forgotten.
Scheele, Dr. Adele: KABC, 1985. Dr. Scheele is director, Career     Center, California State University, Northridge.
Schefrin,   Dean: KROQ, 2005-06. Dean started as the morning sports guy with Kevin & Bean in late 2005 and left in early 2006. He's writing screenplays.
Schell, Russ: KFOX, 1979-81. Russ lives in     Nashville where he is vp of The Interstate Radio Network and     The Road Gang Coast-to-Coast Network.
Schermerhorn, Ted: KLOS; KLYY, 1999;   KXMX, 1999-2001; KDLE, 2007-08. "Anthony" left "Y107" in late 1999 following   a format change to Spanish. After various stints as a casting, field and   story producer on Big Brother and The Bachelor, Ted has   dropped "Anthony" and goes by Tedd Roman at Indie 103.1/fm. 
 
(Chuck Southcott, Kenny Sargent,   Skylord, and John W. Strobel III)
Schlessinger, Dr. Laura: KWIZ, 1976-79;     KMPC, 1980-81; KABC; KWNK, 1989; KFI, 1991-2009; KFWB, 2009-10. Dr. Laura's     syndicated show jumped from KFI in the spring of 2009. She departs KFWB at   the end of 2010 to start at Sirius XM Satellite Radio in early 2011.
Schnabel, Tom: KCRW,     1979-2017. Tom hosts     the weekend show, "Cafe L.A." He left KCRW in the spring of 2013   and currently hosts a tasty music show at Rhythm Planet blog, which is heard   on KCRW.
Schneider,   Michael: KCSN, 2004-08. Michael is tv editor at Variety. He hosted a weekly   Hawaiian music show at KCSN until the summer of 2008.
SCHNEIDER,   Wolfgang: KCSN, 1977-2007. Wolfgang originated The             American Continental Hours,             which was broadcast in German and             English and heard on KCSN for 30   years. He played music             from all over Europe, from polkas             and operettas to contemporary German             ballads.
Wolfgang died May 20, at             the age of 81. “Mr.           Schneider was a class act and great lover of           radio and sports, especially soccer," said Scalla Sheen, host of 'American           Mosaic' at KCSN. “He was a great mentor to           me, as I was training to be a board operator           at KCSN/fm. During my undergrad years at           KCSN/fm, Mr. Schneider had great patience           and showed tremendous support.”
A German website promoted his show that could be heard on the     Internet. "A must for music lovers, it is also required listening     for soccer fans because Wolfgang gives his audience the soccer     scores from around the world. The American Continental Hours was a Southland tradition - and as American as apple strudel."
Schnitt,   Todd: KQLZ, 1989-91; KFWB, 2009-12. Todd was part of Pirate Radio at KQLZ.   His syndicated show was heard late night on News/Talk KFWB.
Schock,   Bryan: KNAC, 1990-91 and 1993-95. Bryan left his music director/afternoon   drive post at KPRI-San Diego in the summer of 2014. In the spring of 2015,   Bryan was appointed OM/PD of Classic Rock KSAN (THE BONE) and Triple A   KFOG-San Francisco.
Schoen,   Michael: KFWB, 90s. Michael is a news anchor at WCBS-New York.
Schofield, Dick: KFOX, 1965. Unknown.
Schofield, Susan Mendlin: KFWB and KRLA. Susan broadcast news and     traffic for Metro Traffic Network until the fall of 2008 following a company   downsizing.
Scholl, Michael: KSRF, 1990. Michael     commuted from Fresno to work weekends at KSRF. He is living     in Fresno.
Schorr, Arnold: KHJ, 1961-64; KGFJ, 1964-79;     KUTE, 1973-79. Arnold lives in Orlando and consults radio     stations while in semi-retirement.
 
 
(Mark Sudock, Carol Sobel, Paul Secrest,   and Bob Shayne)
Schrack, Don: KNX, 1969-72;     KFWB, 1974-79. Don was part of the embryonic decade of     all-News KFWB and became nd in 1975. A third generation     native of the Fresno County community of Selma, he majored in     journalism at UCLA. Don has been in general management and/or     station ownership since leaving Los Angeles. He is based in     Yakima.
Schreiber, Art: KFWB, 1969-77. Art lives in     Albuquerque.
Schreiber, Carson: KRLA, 1964; KBBQ,     1965-71; KLAC, 1971-76. Carson is in semi-retirement.
Schroeder,     Ric: KFWB and KNX. After 15 years with KFWB and KNX as writer and editor,     Ric left the radio business to pursue work on documentary films.
Schrutt,   Norm: KZLA, 1980-81. The former KZLA gm and 33-year veteran of ABC radio has   been a talent agent and partner in Atlanta-based Schrutt & Katz since 1997.
Schubeck, John: KIEV, 1993. John was     primarily known as a #1 million-a-year tv anchorman in New     York, Chicago and Los Angeles. He died penniless at age 61,     in early October 1997.
(John Salley, Bob Shaw, Dave   Styles, and Jack Snyder)
SCHUBERT, Bill: KBIQ/KBIG, 1961-65; KPOL,     1961-65; KKAR, 1965-68; KFWB, 1968-90.   Bill           was part of the launch of all-News KFWB in           1968 and he stayed for 22 years. He passed           away May 30, 2008. He was 81 years old. Bill           covered the assassination of Robert Kennedy,           the 1971 Sylmar earthquake and election year           campaigns of Richard Nixon and Jesse Unruh.           Bill was a native           Angeleno born August 31, 1926. He grew up in           Alhambra and attended Pasadena City College,           then           St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York.           In 1949,            he started his radio career at           WSLB-Ogdensburg, New York. Bill returned to           L.A. in 1951 and worked as public relations           director for the Southern California Edison           Company. He returned to radio in 1958 at           KDWC-West Covina.           Prior to KFWB           he also           worked at KBIG, KPOL and KKAR.
 Bill took an early buy-out from Westinghouse   (owners of KFWB) and retired in 1990 and lived in Covina. He secured a real   estate license but became the primary caretaker for his ailing wife.
Schulman, Heidi: KFWB. Heidi lives in     Washington, DC.
Schultz,   Ed: KTLK, 2005-08; KGIL, 2008. Ed's syndicated Progressive show was carried   early evenings at KTLK until the spring of 2008 when he was moved to KGIL   1260AM. Ed left the KGIL line-up in late 2008. He appeared on MSNBC until   the summer of 2015.
Schultz, Edwin: KXLA/KRLA, 1959. Unknown.
Schumacher, Captain Max: KMPC. Capt. Max was killed when two helicopters collided     over Dodger Stadium on August 30, 1966. His successor, Jim     Hicklin, was slain in his stateroom aboard the cruise ship     Princess Italia moments before the ship was to sail on a     vacation trip to Mexico on April 2, 1973. Bill Keene stated     that, with Schumacher at the helm, "KMPC wrote the book     on how to cover L.A. traffic."
Schuon, Andy: KROQ, 1989-92. In early     2004,     Andy left his vp/programming post at Infinity.
Schwartz, Edward "Buz": KMNY;     KIEV. Buz died October 14, 2006. He was 80.
 
 
(Buz Schwartz, Frank Sontag, Kathleen Sullivan, Tom Storey, and Jeff Stevens)
Schwartz, Rick: KMPC, 1994;   KXTA, 2004. Rick joined XTRA Sports in late Spring 2004 and was gone within   a month.
Schwartz, Roy: KGBS, 1970. Unknown.
Schwartz,   Stella: SEE Stella Prado
Schweinsburg, Mike: KROQ, 1970-78.   Mike helped put KROQ on the air. He was program director/music director from   1974-76. He has lived in New York City for many years, and has worked for the New   York City Council as an aide.
Scoles, Sibley: KRRL, 2015. Sibley joined Real Radio 92.3 in   the spring of 2015.
Scorpio, Rob: KGGI, 2015. Rob is regional program director   for iHeartMedia stations in Riverside, Fresno, Bakersfield, Monterey,   Stockton, and Modesto.
Scott, Al: KNOB, 1965; KGFJ, 1965-66; XERB,     1968. Unknown.
SCOTT, Bill: KROQ, 1984-85; KNAC, 1985-86. "Wild Bill" Scott died May 2, 2014. His colleague and dear friend Dusty Street made the announcement on her Facebook page: “One of my closest and    dearest friends passed away from a stroke. Wild Bill Scott [Big Daddy]    was the person who gave me my signature sign off ‘Fly low and avoid the    radar.’ I'm crushed by this loss. He loved music and radio as much as    anyone I know. We could sit for hours playing music for each other and    often did. I love you my brother. RIP.”
 Scott grew up in Los    Angeles and San Francisco and went to high school in Lake Tahoe. His    early radio influences were the early days of KFWB and KRLA. His first    radio gig was in Truckee, near Lake Tahoe in 1961.
In 1965, he spent a year    at the Don Martin School of Broadcasting. His radio journey includes    stations in Bakersfield and Reno, KUDL-Kansas City, KDKB and    KUPD-Phoenix and WMYQ-Miami. At KMEL-San Francisco he was the first    morning jock when the station became AOR.
In Detroit,  Scott worked    for WABX, WWWW and WLLZ. The Chicago stations included WLUP and WMET,    WKLS (“96 Rock”)-Atlanta and Houston followed.
Scott worked nine to    midnight at "the Roq." He left the Southland to help establish the    Z-Rock Satellite in Dallas. In the 1990s, he jocked in San Francisco at    KFOG, KSFO and KYA and KFRC. He also hosted the "Dynamite Shack" on    KDIA-San Francisco. His wife worked in San Francisco radio.
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Scott, Bob: KNX, 1975-78 and 1984-98. Bob     retired in early 1998.
Scott,   Bruce: KOST, 2013-15. Bruce worked afternoon drive at the AC station until   October 2015 when Ellen K joined mornings and longtime morning man Mark   Wallengren shifted to afternoons forcing Scott out. In early 2016, he took   over mornings at Bay FM in San Jose.
Scott, Dred:   KCXX, 1996-97; KLSX, 1997-98; KMXN, 2002-03; KDLD, 2007-08; KSWD, 2008-10. Dred     worked at 100.3 The Sound until early 2010 when the overnight live   shift was eliminated.
Scott,   Gary: KCRW, 2007-12. Gary has been   the director of news programming at KCRW since July 2011, when he was   promoted from his role as producer for the nationally syndicated "To the   Point" and award-winning Southern California public affairs show "Which Way,   LA?" Both are hosted by Warren Olney. Before joining KCRW, Gary was the   Capitol bureau reporter Los Angeles Daily Journal Public Company,   politics editor of the  San   Gabriel Valley Newspapers, and he served as politics editor for three   newspapers - the Pasadena Star-News, San Gabriel Valley Tribune,   and Whittier Daily News - and acted as writing coach and co-city   editor for the three newsrooms. He graduated from California State   University at Berkley.
Scott, Dr.   Gene: KHOF. The flamboyant tv preacher owned KHOF (99.5fm). Gene died   February 21, 2005. He was 75.
Scott,   Hanna: KFI, 2002-03 and 2009-10. The KFI traffic reporter joined the morning   show at KFI as a reporter and left the station in the early summer of 2010.
Scott, Ivan: KABC, 1971-72. Ivan was the     tv-radio director for Washington's Environmental Protective     Agency.
Scott, Jeff: KIBB, 1996-97.   Jeff works on Westwood One's Hot Country format and is  an Emmy-winning producer for ABC/TV.
SCOTT,     Kevin: KQLZ, 1989-95; KLSX/KRLA,     1998-2001; KFRG, 2001-04; KKBT/KSWD,     2004-2013. Kevin died February 5, 2013, at the age of 49.  Kevin, chief engineer at 100.3/The Sound and at a number of     Southland stations over his career, "fought cancer bravely     for a very long time" said his wife, Melinda. "He continued to come     to work long after beginning treatment because he loved 100.3 and     the people." 
"Kevin and Melinda Scott have been a true radio love story," said The Sound's pd, Dave Beasing. "They met while working at     their high school station in Indiana. Decades later, they became a     couple and were married here at The Sound studios. Melinda     was with Kevin 24/7 during his last months.
"
 
Kevin was born in Heppner, Oregon where     his dad was stationed in the Air Force. "We moved back to Indiana     where my mother and father were both born and raised," said Kevin     when interviewed for Los Angeles Radio People. "I moved to     Palm Springs out of school and have never really looked back.
"
 
He ran a consulting service in   the Palm Springs area from 1983 until around 1987. Kevin was the director of   engineering for General Broadcasting from 1987 to 1989, then to Pirate   Radio. He was retained through the Viacom days and then to Heftel, KLVE KTNQ   and CRC radio network around 1995. Around 1997, he spent a year in San Diego   at XHRM.  
In 1998 it was back to Los   Angeles at KLSX/KRLA with CBS. In 2001, he took the job at the K-FROG   stations, KFRG, KXFG, KVFG, KRAK, and KEZN. In July of 2004 he joined KKBT.   Bonneville bought the station in 2008, which became 100.3/The Sound.
SCOTT,   Lara: KYSR, 2000-2006; KFSH, 2006-15; KRTH, 2015-17. Lara joined K-EARTH in late 2015 as     weekends and fill-in from a long run at KFSH, "The FISH." In late 2016, she took over the midday show.
She co-hosted the "Family Friendly Morning Show" at the "FISH," as as well as afternoons from 3-7 p.m. Lara is also the host of The World Chart Show, an internationally syndicated countdown,     and her voice has been heard on programs for Bravo, VH-1, the     Olympic Encore on Universal Sports,  and in-flight programming     for Delta Radio and Air Force 1.
Born in Southwest Florida, Lara headed west     after high school. She got into radio in Bend, Oregon, after     randomly calling a local station, and then continued her     broadcasting career in Portland.  After graduating with a B.S.     in philosophy from Portland State University, she moved to San     Francisco to become the music director and nighttime air personality     at KZQZ. She then spent almost 7 years as the midday host at     KYSR/Star 98.7.
Lara was a 2008 President’s Volunteer     Service Award winner, which was presented by recording artist     Michael W. Smith on behalf of President George W. Bush for her     charity work.  In her free time, she can be found hanging out     with her husband and sons, snowboarding, biking, hitting thrift     stores and flea markets, and attending lots of concerts and movies.
 
SCOTT, Larry: KBBQ,     1967-68 and 1971; KLAC,     1971-82. Larry worked at     KVOO-Tulsa. He hosted a weekly live radio show from Big Balls of     Cowtown in Fort Worth, which is distributed throughout the world and     spent many years in Los Angeles Country radio. He died July 9, 2016,     at the age of 78.
Born in
Before   moving to
Southern California
, he   worked at WIL-St. Louis and, beginning in 1961, spent four years at   KUZZ-Bakersfield, where he befriended Buck Owens and Merle Haggard. He   promoted records for a while, then became pd at KVEG-Las Vegas.
In 1966 he   worked at KBOX and KRLD-Dallas/Ft. Worth. A year later, his general manager   moved to
Los Angeles
and Larry followed on June 17, 1967. In 1968, Billboard listed Larry the 2nd   most popular country dj. The ACM voted him #1 DJ of the Year four times   between 1968 and 1974. In 1971, Larry returned to KBBQ after a stint as pd   in
St. Louis
.   Larry created the "Phantom   5-70 Club" for truckers only, and it boasted 8,000 members in 1975.
Larry left   KLAC in 1982 to host the "Interstate Radio Show" out of
Shreveport
.   In 1994, Larry was voted into the Disc Jockey Hall of Fame in
Nashville
.   In 1999, the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame honored Larry.
Scott, Morton: KLAC, 1965-67. Unknown.
 
(John   Sebastian, Dr. Allen Selner, Sheena, Sibley Scoles, and Al B Sure)
Scott, Rick: KRTH/KHJ,     1985-86. Rick is working in the computer industry in Los Angeles.
Scott, Robertson: KPOL, 1952-71. Bob lives     in Santa Barbara and runs two radio stations.
SCOTT, Steve: KHTZ,   1980-85; KRTH, 1985-90. Born   Steve Christiaens, he grew up in Helena, Montana and in 1968 started his   radio career in Deer Lodge, Montana. Steve went on to work in Great Falls,   Montana, Boise and Albuquerque before moving to KOMA-Oklahoma City in 1975.   He later programmed KLIF-Dallas before arriving in L.A. to do afternoons at   KHTZ, where later he was pd.
For five years he worked afternoon drive at   KRTH. Steve and his family moved to New Mexico to start a horse ranch in   1991. He also programmed an oldies station, KBOM, and a Classic Rock outlet,   KTMN-Santa Fe, before leaving radio in 1995.
In 1998, he returned to KBOM.   He also programmed Santa Fe stations KTRC, an adult contemporary station,   and country KVSF, where he co-hosted a Saturday morning "Americana" program   called "The Real Deal."
Steve currently lives in the wilds outside Blue   Ridge, Texas. "I entertain as a singer/guitarist at senior communities in   the Dallas area. I've finally reached my ideal target demographic," emailed   Steve.
Scott, Tony: KLOS,     2001-15; KSWD, 2016-17. Tony worked swing at KLOS and hosted The Seventh Day.   In the summer of 2016, he joined Classic Rock 100.3/The Sound (KSWD).
Scott,Tori:   Tori broadcasts traffic for for a number of So Cal stations.
Schrutt, Norm: KZLA, 1980-81. Norm is a     talent agent and partner in Atlanta-based Schrutt & Katz.
Schwartz, Rick: KMPC, 1994. Unknown.
Scroeder, Ric: KFWB, 1988-99. Ric was a     newsman at all-News KFWB.
Scruggs,   Newy: KXTA, 1998-2000. Newy left all-Sports "XTRA" in the spring of 2000 for   a tv sports anchor position in Dallas. In late 2012, he joined weekends at   the NBC Sports Radio Network and in the spring of 2013 moved to middays.
Sculatti, Gene: Gene is director of special     issues at Billboard working on the Spotlight     section.
Scull,   Cindy: KLOS, 1993-94; KNAC, 1994-95. Cindy works mornings at KEGL-Dallas.
Scully, Vin: KMPC, 1958; KFI, 1959-72; KABC, 1972-97;     KXTA, 1997-2003; KFWB, 2003-07; KABC, 2007-11; KLAC, 2011-16. Vin was the premiere voice of the Los Angeles     Dodgers. In 2016, he returned as Dodgers announcer for his final season, his 67th   with the team.
Sea, Craig: SEE Craig Carpenter
Seacrest, Ryan: KYSR,     1995-2003; KIIS, 2004-17. Ryan     worked     afternoon drive at "Star 98.7" until leaving to devote full-time     to his syndicated tv show, On-Air with Ryan Seacrest, which was   cancelled almost 8 months later in the summer of 2004. On February 26, 2004,     Ryan took over mornings at KIIS/fm. He is the host of the enormously   successful American Idol.
Sebastian, Dave: KEZY, 1971-74; KHJ,     1974-77; KFI, 1978; KTNQ, 1978-79; KIIS, 1980; KBRT, 1981-82; KIIS, 1983;   KHJ, 1985; KRTH, 1994-96. Dave Sebastian Williams has an active voiceover career and owns Dave & Dave in Studio City.
Sebastian, Joel: KLAC, 1964-65. The former     personality with WXYZ-Detroit and WLS-Chicago died January     17, 1986, after a long bout with pneumonia and prostate     cancer.
Sebastian,   John: KHJ, 1978-79; KLOS, 1981; KTWV, 1988-89; KZLA/KLAC, 1996-98. John left   the JACK/fm station in Chicago for The Wolf in Dallas in March 2007. He left   the Wolf in early 2008. He spent two years as vp/operations for Majestic Broadcasting in   Roswell, New Mexico. He left in early 2014.
Secrest, Paul: KEZY/KXMX, 1998-2000; KIIS/KXTA, 2000; KMXN,     2000-02. Paul worked at "COOL Radio," 94.3fm" until the     station was sold in late 2002.
Sedens,   Chris: KFWB, 2007-09; KNX, 2009-17. Chris was a reporter at all-News KFWB   until the fall of 2008. He's now anchoring at KNX.
Seena: KAMP, 2011-17.   Seena Akita works late evenings at AMP Radio. In October 2015, she added new   duties as CBS Social Media Manager for the LA cluster.
Segal, Karen: KLSX, 1994.     Karen is writer, producer, editor and director for television. She directed The     Benefactor. She also hosts an evening show at KZAP-Sacramento.
Seiden, Fred: KBIG/KBRT, 1973-80; KOST,     1981-82. Fred ended his life by jumping from a building in     1991. In the 1970s, Fred was head of programming for Bonneville Program   Services.
Sellers, Steven O: KQLZ, 1992-93. Steven     works at KONO-San Antonio.
 
(Mike Stark, Mike Sakellarides, Ira Sternberg, and Julie Slater)
Selner, Allen: KABC,     1984-94. Allen is a podiatrist working in the San Fernando     Valley.
SELTZER,     Brent: KWST, 1975-76; KMET,     1976-78; KZLA/KPOL, 1979; KNX/fm, 1980; KMPC,     1981-82. Brent passed away April 18, 2016. In late 2015, Brent     underwent brain tumor surgery to remove a cancerous, golf ball-sized     Glioblastoma Tumor Grade 4  from the front-left section of his     brain.  This is the part of the brain that controls memory and     language.  Seltzer’s colorful career dates back to the golden days     of FM rock radio when he was a pioneer in the development of “rock ‘n’ roll radio style news” at such outlets as KGB-San Diego and     KMET.
"The death of John Kennedy changed my career path," wrote Brent when interviewed for Los Angeles Radio People. "I was a dj on WJBR-Wilmington when Kennedy was assassinated and I     was so moved by my role in radio. People just wanted to touch a     media person, it made them feel better. After all, for 96 hours tv     babysat the nation.
Born and raised in Wilmington,     Delaware, Brent attended Ithaca College. After college he was off to     New York and worked at ABC News and was a writer/producer at     Hartwest Productions working with Mad magazine and Joe Pyne.     Brent worked for three years at KGB-San Diego and would feed KMET     news stories. "When I arrived at KWST people would call and wonder     why I had left KMET. I never knew that Ace Young was using so much of my feeds."
Brent eventually worked the news at KMET and at the same time was the   entertainment correspondent for CBC in Canada, which he did for five years. "I used street-talk when doing the news. A suspect wasn't arrested, he was   busted. The audience seemed to respond to familiar language."
At KMPC he worked the Talk format from nine to noon. During this time, Brent   worked closely with Watermark Productions as a writer and/or producer. "When   Elvis died, I worked as associate producer/program coordinator of 'The Elvis   Presley Story.'" In 1985 he realized that "nobody wanted me around. News had   been eliminated at most stations and there didn't seem to be a place for   me." Brent joined his wife who has a public relations firm that placed   clients on radio and did media coaching. His voiceover career included the   huge toys from movies: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Power   Rangers and Star Trek. In recent years, Brent worked     news at KABC and KNX and had an active voiceover career and writing and     hosting "Non Profit Profiles" on several cable access stations     throughout Los Angeles County. His two-minute commentaries appeared on XM   Satellite Radio.
Sender, Jack: KBIG; KBRT, 1975-79.     Jack is retired and lives in Roma, Italy and he spends the hot summers     in Huron, Ohio where he was born.
Serafin, Kim: KABC,     2002-06. Kim worked swing at KABC until the summer of 2006. She is the   senior editor for In Touch Weekly.
Seraphin, Charlie: KNX/fm   / KODJ,   1988-91. Charlie is the executive vp for the Tulsa 66ers, NBA Development   League.
Serena, Nancy: KJAZ, 2000-02. From Boston,     Nancy worked weekends at all-Jazz, KJAZ until a format change in the spring     of 2002. She is now a casting agent.
Sergis, Charlie: KFWB, 1971-98. Charlie     retired from KFWB on April 4, 1998.
Serr, Jeff: KIIS, 1982; KMGG, 1983-85; KBIG,     1986-88; KODJ/KCBS, 1988-2005; KKGO/KGIL/KMZT, 2006-12. Jeff is the   production/imaging director for KKGO.
Servantez, Joe "the Boomer": KPWR, 1986-96; KACD, 1996; KIBB, 1996-98; KACD,     1998; KRTH, 2002; KMVN, 2007. Joe is a California realtor and he works   part-time at Movin 93.9/fm.
Sesma, Chico: KOWL, 1949-57; KALI, 1957-67.     Chico lectures to disadvantaged kids.
Severn,   Jim: KBIG, 2004-05. Jim worked weekends at KBIG until late 2005.
Seward, Bill: KXLU, 1976-80; XPRS, 1980-81;     KWNK, 1987-88; KGIL, 1989; KNX, 1990-1997; KFWB, 2001-14. Bill     broadcasts sports at KFWB until the fall of 2014.
Sexton, Miles: KEZY/KORG, 1990-95. Miles     is coo of Point Broadcasting, parent company of Gold Coast Broadcasting, and     High Desert Broadcasting, licensee of 11 radio stations in Ventura County,     Palmdale and Lancaster.
 
(Stein & Illes, Jeff Serr, T.J. Simers, and Michael Schoen)
Seymour, Ruth: KPFK,     1960s-70s; KCRW, 1980s-2009. Ruth is general manager at KCRW. She    retired in February 2010.
Shackelford, Lynn: KLAC. Lynn was Chick     Hearn's sidekick during LA Lakers broadcasts. He was on Coach     John Wooden's 1968-69 UCLA basketball team that started Lynn     with Lew Alcindor, Curtis Rowe and Sidney Wicks.
Shade, Jeff: KMPC, 1992-94; KLIT, 1994;     KACD, 1995-96; KABC/KDIS, 1998-2001. Jeff is working in voiceover and tv   production from L.A. and Seattle.
Shafer, Don: KNAC, 1969-70; KYMS,   1971-73. Don is vp/regional manager of the BC Interior Group of Astral Media   Radio, based in Kelowna, British Columbia.
Shalhoub, Martha: KLVE, 1976-2001; KXOL, 2001. Martha works middays     at KXOL.
Shalhoub, Shelley: KLVE, 1998-2001; KXOL, 2001. Shelley joined KXOL     in the spring of 2001.
SHANA: KHJ,     1976-78; KEZY, 1978-80; KROQ, 1980; KLOS, 1980-86; KLSX, 1986-95; KPCC, 1996-2000; KCBS,     2001-05. One of the early Rock Radio Princesses died July 17,     2015. She was 62. She moved back to Michigan just months before her     death to be with family. "Shana had hooked-up with an old boyfriend     in Detroit and was happier than she'd been in years," according to     her son, Tony. She went to bed early and when her boyfriend came in     the bedroom, Shana was lying on the floor and unresponsive. Cause of     death will be determined after an autopsy.
Shana was born Margaret Reichl of German parents on April 10, 1953,     at Camp LeJeune AFB in
North Carolina
and     started her radio career at the
Kalamazoo
college radio station in 1971. She then moved to KWBB-Wichita.
Programmer Paul Drew became Shana's mentor and in     1974 at age 21, she started on the all-night shift at KFRC-San     Francisco, becoming one of the first female Rock jocks. It was     actually KFRC pd Michael Spears who gave "Margo" her new professional name. Two years later, she came to the     Southland to work at KFRC's sister station and become a "Boss Jock."
During her stay at KLOS, she hosted Rock ON-TV. The over-the-air "cable" experiment was a rock series   simulcast by KLOS and ON-TV. The 30-minute, magazine-style program ran twice   a week. She did morning drive at KLOS, starting in the spring of 1984 when Frazer Smith left   the station. In addition to hosting several nationally syndicated radio   features, Shana's heart showed with her involvement in the community. She   devoted considerable time to the Children's Hospital. In 1994 and 1995 the   mother of three taught a course at UCLA.
The pioneering class was called "Becoming a Disc Jockey: The Inside View." Before 1994 was over, Shana had pulled the ultimate radio "hat trick" and returned for a third time to KLSX, following the arrival of new   management. In early 1996 Shana   joined KPCC as the assistant pd and md, as well as evening on-air talent.   She left the
Pasadena
College
station when management abandoned music for an all-News/Talk format.
SHANE,  Ed: KKDJ, 1971. Ed, the former program director of KKDJ, died on March 21,  2015.  He died of  colon cancer, at the age of 69.
“Ed was our  consultant at K-Frog as we launched the County format the day after Christmas in  1989,” emailed Richard McIntosh.“Lots of memories. Ed did a great job of  focusing the music to the Inland Empire. We played more Oldies and re-currents  than most Country stations.  He was instrumental in forming the sound of  the station. He and Kerby Confer maximized the FROG imagery and we went from  worst to first in the market in six months. What more is there to say than rest  in peace, Ed.”
In 1971, Ed was brought  in from Atlanta to program the new Los Angeles fm station, KKDJ (102.7/fm). He  left KKDJ to be pd at WGLD-Chicago and then station manager at KRBE-Houston.
In 1977, Ed  founded Shane Media Services to provide management, research and programming  consultation to the radio industry. Ed authored Programming Dynamics, a  compilation of the articles he had written for the old Broadcast  Communications magazine. He’s also written Cutting Through and Selling  Electronic Media.
Born in Atlanta on  June 26, 1945, Ed got caught up in radio listening to WAKE-Atlanta. “The late  Bob McKee took me under his wing when he was the morning man at WAKE in the Bill Drake days. Later, WAKE’s nighttime jock, Paul Drew, let me work  in the production room while he was on the air.” When WAKE told him he was too  young to work at the station, Ed built a transmitter and broadcast to the  Peachtree Hills neighborhood. “My mother was a cume of one.”
Ed pursued a  journalism degree at Georgia State University, married and they had a daughter.  His big radio break came at WQXI where he was the morning news anchor for Dr.  Don Rose. “I left WQXI to take the programming job at WPLO, where they were  trying to launch a new format. Originally it was to have been Top 40 to go  against WQXI, but I suggested after some rudimentary research that they should  do Album Rock instead. That’s what they did, and now books like Voices in the  Purple Haze call me a ‘pioneer.’”
Ed moved to KKDJ when  George Burns and Kent Burkhart were running parent company Pacific & Southern. “KKDJ was originally designed to be what we would call a ‘Hot AC’ today. Our  mission was ‘to avoid bubblegum and to play hits for adults.”
SHANNON, Bob: KWIZ, 1975-76; KFI, 1976-79; KWIZ, 1979; KHJ, 1979-82; KLAC, 1982; KRTH, 2000-2002. died of an apparent massive heart attack     January 26, 2015. At the time of his death, Bob was working on a film project in     Pennsylvania. He was 67.
Bob was the last dj on KHJ before the station     switched to Country music.
He was born in St. Catherine's, Ontario     and grew up in Western New York near Buffalo. He started his radio     career in Arizona working in Yuma and KRUX. From KUTY-Palmdale in     1965, Bob joined KDWB-Minneapolis for the first time. He went on to     work mornings at WKYC-Cleveland, KXOK-St. Louis and KING-Seattle. In     the early 1970s Bob was at KJR-Seattle, WIXY-Cleveland,     KDKA-Pittsburgh and back at KDWB to be pd and work mornings. Bob     worked morning drive as “BS in the Morning” with Ed Nix at KWIZ. At     KFI he was hired to work the swing shift and ended up doing     afternoon drive for two years. He left KFI for middays at KCBQ-San     Diego and he returned to the Southland for KHJ. During the 1980s Bob     started "The Actor's Workshop" in Orange County. Using his birth     name of R.J. Adams he turned to acting. Bob appeared in close to     60 episodic tv shows including a regular role on Riptide. He was     seen frequently on Hill St. Blues, Murder She Wrote and Hotel. He     appeared in 8 major films including Rocky IV. Bob lived in Mission     Viejo and continued to act, coach at his workshop and produce     documentaries.   
Shannon, Bob "Shamrock": KCSN,     1983-85. Bob was a longtime radio and tv announcer working as     a CBS network announcer in the late 1940s. His voice was     heard on such shows as Lionel Barrymore's "Mayor of the     Town" and "The Jimmy Durante-Garry Moore     Show." From 1949-54, Bob had a radio quiz show, "The Man Says Yes," which he attempted to revive on     KCSN in the mid-1980s. He died August 15, 2000 at the age of     79.
Shannon, Greg:     KRLA, 1971-74; KROQ, 1974-75; KNX, 1990-92. Greg started his radio career at   KKOK Lompoc in 1969. A year later he joined KDES-Palm Springs. "After my   stint in LA radio, I visited the Islands and decided to move there. I made   Hawaii my home for a couple of years, and then returned to the mainland and   entered law school. For the past 20 years I have been in Tucson, running a   non-profit organization, which has been helping folks with their legal   issues....criminal law, family law...medical malpractice. The full spectrum!   Life is good. I occasionally get back on the air with some local stations,   but, to be honest, I miss Southern California. I miss guys like Robert W., The Real Don, Wolfman Jack and Sam Riddle. Shit, those were the days!"
Shannon,   Jim: KTBT, 1967-68; KREL, 1968; KEZY, 1969-70. Jim works at Oldies KQZQ-St.   Louis.
SHANNON, Scott: KQLZ,     1989-91; XESURF, 2004-05; KRTH, 2015-16. Scott was the architect for "Pirate Radio" (KQLZ) in the late 80s. For 22 years he was the     morning host on the enormously successful WPLJ-New York. He left in     early 2014.
Michael Scott Shannon's name is derived from two     early influences: WABC's Scott Muni and CKLW's Tom Shannon. Scott is     a radio history buff and told the LA Times that he has over     2,000 hours of KHJ "Boss Radio" and 500 hours of KFWB "Color Radio" airchecks from the late 1950s and early 1960s. Scott dropped out of     high school in Indianapolis at age 17. “I wanted to get away from it     all. I thought I was James Dean," he told a trade publication.
In the 1970’s Scott was a jock and pd at several southern     stations, he later joined Casablanca Records, was national pd for     Mooney Broadcasting and was a record executive with Ariola Records.
In 1979 he returned to radio as pd at WPGC-Washington, DC     and later WRBQ-Tampa/St. Petersburg. In a Billboard interview Larry Berger of WPLJ-New York said of Scott: "I always     thought of Shannon as a PT Barnum character. He was better than just     about anybody at creating sizzle on a radio station, and quite a     talented on-air personality."
In January 1989, Scott   left WHTZ (“Z-100”)-New York, where he was 1987's Billboard magazine Program Director of the Year in the Top 40 category, to launch "Pirate Radio" for Westwood One. In the beginning at "Pirate Radio" KQLZ,   Scott was on the air as “Bubba, the Love Sponge.” To launch the new format   in LA, the station sold only one spot per hour at $1,000 each, which was   $300 to $400 more than KPWR. The immediate media attention to Scott and "Pirate Radio" was enormous. Even USA Today chronicled AC KIQQ becoming   KQLZ. The produced spots between music boldly declared, "Don't Be a   Dickhead" and "When you're on the air in Southern California, you've got to   be loud to cut through the crap."
A year later the   station stalled and Westwood One let Scott go. In 1993, Shannon was cited by Radio and Records for excellence in programming during the past 20   years. Scott recalled his highlight during this period as being when he took WHTZ-New York from "worst-to-first" in 74 days, calling it "a thrill I'll   never forget."
Scott was one of the   first vj’s on VH-1. He hosted the nationally syndicated "Smash Hits Video   Countdown " for three years and was the subject of a feature story on CBS's 48 Hours. Shannon's influence and innovation in contemporary radio   can be heard on radio stations across the country. His impact on the radio   business has been so far-reaching that his peers in the radio business named   him the "Most Influential Programmer of the Past 20 Years," according to a   special survey conducted by R&R.
The son of a career   army soldier, he spent his youth moving from one town to another, soaking up   the local radio scenes. His first job, at age 17, was in Mobile. Then it was   on to Memphis, Nashville, Atlanta, Washington, DC and Tampa -- where he   created the successful format known as the "Morning Zoo" -- a daily 4-hour   party-on-the-radio.
Shannon, Steve: KMPC, 1978-80. Steve lives     in St. Louis.
SHAPIRO,     Ben: KRLA, 2012-17. Ben joined "The Answer" in     morning drive with Brian Whitman and Elisha Krauss. In 2014, he     moonlighted in afternoon drive at KTTH-Seatte, which he left in     August 2015 to tend to a family matter. Ben was born in Burbank and brought up in the home of two Reagan Republicans, where intelligent     conversation about politics and philosophy was encouraged.  Ben     quickly developed into a reasoned political thinker and a powerful     writer. He left KRLA in early 2017.
Ben entered UCLA at the age of 16 and was never     afraid to challenge the liberal professors and faculty.  At 17, he     became the youngest nationally syndicated columnist in the US with     his columns printed in major newspapers and on websites. He is also     is an editor-at-large of Breitbart.com and a national best-selling     author.
Shapiro, Ron:   KIIS, 1989-96; KLIT, 1997; KCMG/KHHT,     1998-2014. Ron   was assistant program director and creative services director at "Hot 92.3" until late 2014.
Shappee, Michael: KMNY, 1988; KFWB,     1990-2014; KFI, 2015-17. Michael was a news anchor at News Talk KFWB until a format flip   to all-Sports. He now works weekends at KFI.
Sharell,   Jerry: KGIL/KMZT, 2006-13; KKJZ, 2014-17. Jerry hosts a Sunday morning "Sinatra   and Sharell" show at K-JAZZ. He started his radio career in the 60’s at   WPIC-Sharon, PA and WBVP in Beaver Falls, PA for $77 weekly. 
Shark: KROQ, 1994. Shark is working in     Chicago.
(Carson     Schreiber, LaRita     Shelby, and Michelle Santosuosso)
Sharon,   Bob: KFWB, 1960-67; KPOL, 1967-70; KIIS, 1970-71. Bob is an AE for the   three-station American General Media company in Santa Maria/Lompoc market.
Sharp, Bill: KACE, 1997-2000; KJLH.     2000-2001. Bill works swing at KJLH.
Sharp, Colin J.: KDAY, 1966; KFWB. Colin     worked at WIND-Chicago before coming to the Southland to work     at KDAY and KFWB. He moved to Hawaii and worked for many     years at KUMU-Honolulu. Colin retired in 1989 and moved to     Kauai. He died August 19, 1998, at the age of 65.
Sharp, Karen: KWIZ, 1987; KOST,     1988-2017.     Karen hosts "Love Songs on the KOST."
Sharp, Tawala: KKBT,     2000-06. From behind the scenes at "the     BEAT," Tawala hosted the overnight show.
Sharpe, Jim: KYSR, 1993-95. Jim works     mornings at all-Talk KTAR-Phoenix.
Sharpe, Melissa: KYSR, 1993-95. Melissa worked mornings at KIFM-San Diego   until the summer of 2006. She now works mornings at KYOT-Phoenix.
Shaughnessy, Pat: KIQQ, 1973-79. Pat runs     AVI Communications of Dallas.
Shaun, Jackye: KNX, 1976-2000. Jackye is     part of KNXNewsradio. In 1999 she won a Golden Mike Award for     Best News Writing.
SHAUNA: KLOS, 1973-74; KMET, 1975-76.     Shauna Zurbrugg was only with two stations, KMET and KLOS, for a     brief time (not to be confused with Shana LiVigni). Born March 15,     1951 in Alliance, Ohio, she attended Culver Military Academy,     now-defunct women's college in Pennsylvania, "Penn Hall College For     Women," and then spent one semester at Kent State University. “I     left to focus on radio at a radio school in Cleveland. Through this     connection, I was able to have access to the on-air staff at WNCR     where I had my first job as a morning drive dj w/ my friend, Jeff Gelb.
She was eventually given her own show. At WMMS-Cleveland, she made a     name for herself in mornings when she named herself "The Screaming     Queen Bitch."
“My interest in radio came directly from loving the music of the     time,” said Shauna. “I had intended to become an actress, and when I     realized that I would not like touring in ‘summer stock’ theatres,     it became clear that following my love of music and the incredible     programming of several progressive Rock stations, that going on the     air would be a wonderful outlet for both music and entertaining     others.”
At KLOS she was not happy with the rigid playlist and moved to     weekends at KMET. "Due to Raechel Donahue having a     series of health problems at the time, I was often in her weekday     slot and had begun to have fun again w/ the ability to choose my own     music and be a ‘personality.’”
She currently provides professional writing services at her     blogspot, Between the Lines.
Shaw,   Bea: KFWB, 1958-61, SEE Tiger
Shaw, Bob: KKLA, 1998-2000; KFSH,   2000-16; KWVE, 2016-17. Bob co-hosted the Family Friendly Morning Show at "The Fish" until   early fall of 2016. He joined afternoons at "K-WAVE" in late 2016.
Shaw, Dave: KFI, 1964. Unknown.
Shaw, Don: KMPC, 1992.   Don was fired from his weekend shift at all-Sports KMPC for a comedy sketch   that was deemed offensive to Asian-Americans. It was a mock interview with a   Japanese basketball player. "It was not intended as an ethnic slur on   anyone," said Shaw in an interview with the LA Times. "I'm not a   racist. The whole thing was blatantly preposterous."
Shaw, Rick: KEZY, 1984; KNX/fm, 1986: KIKF,     1998-99. Rick was pd/om for the Amaturo group of four at 92.7/fm until a   station sale at the end of 2012. He's now with KATY-Temecula.
 
 
(Miles Sexton, Sondoobie,   and Kat Snow)
Shayne, Bob: KPFK, 1959;     KVFM, 1959-60; KNOB, 1961-63; KPPC, 1967. Bob teaches     screenwriting, tv writing, production and tv history as an adjunct professor   at Chapman University in Orange, CA.
Shearer, William: KGFJ, 1973-74; KLOS,     1974-77; KACE, 1977-84; KGFJ/KUTE, 1984-85; KGFJ, 1986-96. In     the fall of 1997, Bill joined American Urban Radio Networks     as vp of west coast operations.
Shearer, Harry: KRLA, 1965-70; KPPC,     1970-71; KMET, 1975; KCRW, 1987-2013; KCSN, 2013-17. Harry hosts "Le     Show" at KCSN and voices many characters on the Simpson's.
Shearer, Licia: KGFJ, 1989-96; KACE, 1996.     Licia runs Shearer Energy Productions, a     communications/entertainment company.
Shearer, William: KGFJ, 1973-74; KLOS,     1974-77; KACE, 1977-84; KGFJ/KUTE, 1984-85; KGFJ, 1986-96.     Bill is vp of West Coast operations of American Urban Radio     Networks.
Sheehy, Michael:     KNX/fm, 1976-83; KKHR,     1983; KTWV, 1990-2000. Michael left his production job at "the Wave" to operate his own production facility.
Sheen, Lily: KCBS,     1998-2005; KNX, 2005-08. Lily, a     British native, worked weekends at "Arrow 93." She worked in   the programming department at KNX until February 2008 following a major   downsizing at CBS Radio.
Sheen, Scalla: KCSN, 1997-2007. Scalla hosted "American Mosaic" on the Cal     State Northridge radio station. 
Sheff, Stanley: KROQ, 1977-82. Stanley     produces theatrical and film projects.
Shelby, LaRita: KGFJ,   1985-90.   LaRita was part of the morning show while at KGFJ. During much of the 1990s, LaRita was on AFRTS. She went on to work a music, media, and   marketing company in association with Charles Wright Productions. Currently,   LaRita "Jazzy Rita" Shelby is Director of Digital Media Strategy & Sales at   Lee Bailey's Electronic Urban Report at EURweb.com. She also works   independently as a consultant, writer, producer and entertainer for her own   company SB Music, Media and Marketing. www.LaRitaShelby.com or   www.JazzyRita.com. In 2015, she received an Unsung Heroes of L. A. award   from Hands For Hope, a non-profit in Los Angeles. LaRita is a member of   Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc.
Shelden, Thom: KJOI, 1987-89. Thom is     teaching.
Sheldon, Harvey: KFOX, 1985. Harvey hosts a     hard rock video show on local access cable tv in Orange     County.
Sheldon, Mark: KUSC, 1999-2003. Mark     died December 8, 2003 of cancer. He was 43.
Shelton, Iris: KRLA, 1981; KFWB, 1988.     Unknown.
Sherman, Gene: KABC, 1969. Unknown.
(Joe Scarborough, Bob   Sharon, Josefa     Salinas, and Sharise)
SHERWIN, Wally: KABC, 1970-89. “Adee Do!” Wally Sherwin’s tv           commercial for a plumbing service called           Adee Plumbing gave him as much notoriety as           his decades-long role as pd of KABC. In the           tv spot he appeared as a white-haired           plumber who advertises the services of Adee     Plumbing and Heating. At the end of the commercial he widens his     eyes and proclaims, “Adee Do!” 
Wally           died peacefully August 6. He was 89 years           old. During the 1960s Wally was program           director and general manager at KHJ/Channel           9. While at KHJ, Wally pioneered daytime           live tv by introducing the Tempo Show and later won an Emmy for producing a live           concert at the Hollywood Bowl. In the           1970s and ‘80s, Wally was program director           at KABC. “So           sorry to hear of the death of Wally           Sherwin,” emailed Ken Minyard,   mornings at KABC for decades. “During my many years at KABC Wally was the   longest serving program director and certainly the most memorable. This was   a different radio era that featured much less confrontation or manufactured   controversy and a lot more fun. Wally was a showman who           always emphasized that broadcasting was an           entertainment medium and that if we managed           to have a good time on the air it was likely           that the audience would enjoy it as           well. During Wally's tenure,           our show traveled all           over the world. Wally produced the shows,           lined up the guests and generally was the           one who had to deal with the many technical           problems that regularly occurred.  When we           first started doing the shows in the early           80's our most high tech pieces of equipment           were an ISDN and a fax machine so you can           imagine."
Sherwood, Lee: KIIS, 1970-71;   KHJ, 1980-82. Lee hosts a widely syndicated Country show and last heard on   KDJR-DeSoto, Missouri.
Sherwood, Tom: KRLA, 1989-98. Tom produces     the syndicated "Art Laboe Killer Oldies Show."
Shuman, Phil: KABC, 2001-02. The KNBC/Channel 4 reporter/anchor     hosted a     weekend talk show at KABC.
Shields, Cal: KAGB, 1974-78; KACE, 1978-83.     Cal has been working for a local cable company and is an     active participant in Too Lunar Productions.
Shields, Del: KAGB, 1974-78. Del is a     minister in New York.
Shindler, Merrill: KABC/KMPC/KTZN; KLSX,     1998-2008; KABC, 2010-12. Merrill hosts the weekend "Dining Out" show at KABC.
 
(Jim Svejda,   Bruce Scott, Karen Sharp, Lisa Stanley,   and Susan Schofield)
Shirk, Larry: KPCC, 1985.
Shore, Dave: KSPN, 2010. Dave started as operations manager at KSPN on   12.15.10
Shore,   Sandy: KMEN, 1984-86; KWIZ, 1987-89; KTWV, 1988-2000. Sandy is   president/founder of the first jazz radio station on-line, and the World's   Smooth Jazz station, SmoothJazz.com. She lives in Monterey, California.
Shurian, Scott: XTRA, 1961-63; KMPC, 1963-68     and 1975-79. Scott lives in Salt Lake City, and is a     semi-retired voiceover guy and is a travel related     writer/producer.
Shust, Billy: KIKF, 1998-2000. Billy the Kid     was a Country dj at Orange County's KIKF.
Siciliano, Andrew: KSPN, 2009-10. Andrew joined Mychal Thompson for a midday show at KSPN   in the summer of 2009 and left the all-Sports station in late 2010.  Since 2005, he has been the host of DirecTV's NFL Sunday Ticket Red Zone.   Andrew also serves as a host for NFL Total Access on the NFL   Network.
Sidders, Carolyn KOCM, 1986-87. Unknown.
Siegal, Jack: KJOI, 1970-73; KPSA, 1973;     KLVE, 1973. Jack was president of Chagal Companies, a     multi-media investment/consulting firm dealing in broadcast     ownership. The company owned KJOI and KFOX. He died July 16, 2004, at the   age of 75. Siegal was a West Virginia native who grew up in Philadelphia,   After starting the radio station at the University of Pennsylvania and   graduation, he joined the Navy and became a radio combat correspondent in   the Korean War. He also arranged radio and television coverage of the Korean   War truce negotiations at Kaesong and Panmunjom.
SIEGEL, Joel: KPPC, 1970-71; KMET,   1971. Joel was best known for his entertaining movie reviews on ABC’s Good Morning America for a quarter of a century. His cheerful   personality and trademark wit allowed him to be candid and honest without   being hurtful. Joel was also a LARP, working at KPPC and KMET in the early   1970s.
He died June 29, 2007 of colon cancer. He was 63. This was not the   first time that cancer was in Joel’s life. In 1982, Joel’s wife Jane died   from brain cancer when she was 31.
Joel broadcast news on   KPPC and had a weekly program, “Uncle Noel’s Mystery Theatre” during its “underground” radio period. A native of East Los   Angeles, he graduated cum laude from UCLA. He had an eclectic early life. On   a 20/20 segment on the evening of his passing, they devoted its final   segment to Joel’s life. “I’m really proud that I knew Martin Luther King and   even more he knew me,” said Joel from an earlier interview. His friendship   with King and his involvement in the Civil Rights Movement of the 60s was an   example of “standing up for what’s right.” 
Jeff Gonzer remembered that Joel had this enormous collection of   old radio dramas, comedies and serials. “He started me using ‘Chandu the   Magician,’ that I ran every morning on my show at KPPC [1970-71]. Then he   began his Uncle Joel's Comedy Hour, a weekend show that featured old radio   comedy shows from the 40s and 50s. Also on the weekends he would host Uncle   Noel's Mystery Hour and run spookie and mystery shows from the same era.   After we all were fired from KPPC I moved to KMET and Joel did too, as the   newsman.
On August 1, 1972, Joel   joined WCBS/TV-New York and four years later became the entertainment critic   at WABC/TV-New York. In 1996, Joel found someone else he hoped to grow old   with. She got pregnant, he got cancer. In 2004 he wrote a book to his five   year-old son called Lessons   for Dylan, a "just in case" autobiography and tutorial for his son. At   his book publication party he told his friends, “I’m glad to be there and to   quote George Burns, I’m glad to be anywhere.” He continued working almost   until the end of his life without losing his cheerful personality and   trademark wit, wrote a colleague on the network's Web site.
The 20/20 tribute piece concluded with: “Joel never   complained. He always had a warm smile. He will be an inspiration.”
Siegel, Mike: KABC, 2000. Mike's "Coast     to Coast AM" was on KABC from the spring of 2000 until     November.
Sietsema,   Rick: KNX, 2004-10. Rick is in technical operations at KNX.
Sifuentes, Karla: KRLA, 1996-98. Unknown.
(Ed Schultz, Teresa Strasser,   and Michael Savage) 
SIGMON, Loyd: KMPC. Loyd devised a system to make it easy for the police to alert   radio stations. The system gave each radio station a special receiver tuned   to a specific frequency and attached to a tape recorder. A dispatcher at   LAPD headquarters could press one button to activate all the machines and   announce the nature of the problem. "What I had in mind was to get more   listeners for KMPC, to be honest with you," said Sigmon. When the LAPD   broadcast the first SigAlert on Sept. 5, 1955, the announcement caused even   more trouble than the accident that had precipitated it. A train en route   from Union Station to Long Beach had derailed downtown, rolling onto its   side. When the LAPD sent out a plea for doctors and nurses in the area   through the new system, so many responded that they created a traffic jam   themselves.
Born in Stigler, Oklahoma in 1910, Loyd was the son of a cattle   rancher, educated at Wentworth Military Academy and got a ham radio license   at age 14. He started his radio career at WEEI-Boston and KCMO-Kansas City.   Loyd spent three years in Europe during World War II where he was officer in   charge of radio communications for the European Theater where Colonel Sigmon   directed building of the world's largest mobile transmitter, 60,000 watts.   Prior to selling his interest in Golden West, Loyd was it’s corporation's   executive vp, with Gene Autry ran a number of radio stations and KTLA/Channel   5, was vp of operations at KMPC and was part of the acquisitions of   the California Angels. The California Highway Patrol took over   responsibility for the freeways in 1969, and with that the SigAlert system   as well. And though most radio stations now get information about SigAlerts   from the CHP Web site, the name has remained - striking terror and dread in   the hearts of L.A. drivers.
Loyd died June 2, 2004, at the age   of 95. 
 
(Michael   Schneider, Dr. Gene Scott, and Dean Schefrin)
Signal, Tori. Tori   has been the traffic reporter on KFWB, KMPC and KYSR. She's currently   directing traffic during morning drive at the WAVE.
Silver,   Jack: KLSX, 1997-2009; KFWB/KRTH, 2010; KABC, 2010-11; KABC/KLOS, 2011-12. Jack left his past as an   AE with KTWV and K-EARTH on July 10, 2010, to become program director at   KABC. In the fall of 2011, Jack added programming chores at KLOS. New   owners, Cumulus, let Jack go in June 2012. In July 2012, Jack was appointed   pd at NBC Sports Radio Network.
Silver, Jordin: KYSR, 2013-15. Jordin joined weekends at   Alternative 98-7 from KNDD-Seattle in early summer of 2013.
Silvius, Jon: KRLA, 1966 and 1969-74. John was killed in a     plane crash January 6, 2003. He was 55.
Simers, T.J.:   KLAC, 2006-07. T.J., page 2 columnist with the LA Times for 23 years, launched a new morning   show with his daughter Tracy and Fred Roggin on October 30, 2006. The show   ended September 27, 2007. In  2013, T.J. started writing for the the Orange County Register until a voluntary buyout. He attended   Northern Illinois Universty. Simers sued the LA Times for age and   health discrimination, claiming he was pushed out from his $234,000-a-year   job after he suffered a minor stroke. In November 2015, a jury awarded him   $7.1 million; however a judge cut $2.1 million for lost earnings, then also   struck the remaining $5 million in damages for emotional distress, ruling   Simers had quit his $234,000-a-year job of his own accord.
Simers,   Tracy: KLAC, 2006-07. Tracy co-hosted a morning show (Roggin & Simers   Squared) on all-Sports KLAC until September 27, 2007.
Simmons, Brian: KFWB, 1963-64. Unknown.
Simmons, Bryan: KOST, 1982-2001; KBIG,     2002-04; KOST, 2004-11; KTWV, 2011-16. Bryan returned to afternoons at KOST in early summer of   2004. He exited KOST in late summer of 2011. Bryan worked weekends and fill-in at "the   WAVE." In late 2016, he went to Albuquerque to be pd and do afternoons at 99.5   Magic FM.
Simms, Greg: KYSR, 1999-2000;   KRTH, 2014-17. Greg began working weekends at K-EARTH in September 2014. Prior   to that he was at "the Walrus" in San     Diego. He's   now music director and afternoon drive at K-EARTH. He took over the   afternoon slot in August 2015.
SIMMS, Lee "Baby": KRLA, 1971-73; KROQ, 1973; KMET, 1973; KRLA, 1975. Only 16 in     1961, LaMar Simms quit high school and started his 40-year radio     career as Hot Toddio On The Radio at WTMA in his hometown of     Charleston, South Carolina. His best recollection is that he worked     at 35 stations in 22 markets. He was known as Lee Simms or Lee     Baby, a nickname given to him by pd Woody     Roberts at KONO in San Antonio. He had 41 jobs, working at some     stations twice, and was fired 25 times. Lee says, "I guess I really     wanted to be a dj, but I never accepted an insult from anyone."
 
He committed suicide on January 27, 2015, at the age of 72. He had     been suffering with cancer.  
 
Top 40 programmer George Wilson became an early mentor when   Lee joined WMBR/1460 in Jacksonville, Florida in 1963. He worked   atWLOF-Orlando and WSHO-New Orleans (the only time he was a pd)   and WIST-Charlotte before Wilson set him up at KRIZ-Phoenix in 1964. He was   there for 18 months before he started moving back and forth between KONO-San   Antonio and  WPOP-  Hartford  in 1966 and 1967. He joined WKYC-Cleveland in   1968. His annual salary was $18,000 and it was the first time he had worked   with a board operator. Regarding that experience, Lee says, "It's impossible   for an engineer to hear what's in your head." Six months into the Cleveland   gig, everyone was fired, and Lee went home to Charleston.
 
A few weeks later, Wilson called again, and Simms was off to San Diego   and KCBQ, working with programmers Mike Scott and Buzz   Bennett. When Scott left for WJBK/Detroit, Lee moved again.
 
With the exception of WMYQ-Miami and WGCL-Cleveland, Lee Baby worked most   of the seventies in Los Angeles, twice at KRLA. He was 27 in 1971 and making   about $30K annually. He moved to KROQ until his paychecks started bouncing,   then he moved to Miami. Lee returned to KRLA as veterinarian "Doctor   Matthew Frail" in 1975, and did a two-hour "audition" on KMET.   Following six-months of a morning show in Cleveland, circa 1976, he did two   nights on KTNQ, and then went to Honolulu as the guest of Wally Amos.   He stayed five years, working at KKUA, KORL, KDUK and KPOI. Lee says, "I   sometimes think that some guys hired me just so they could add their name to   the long and ignoble list of others who had fired me."
 
In 1982, Lee returned to the San Francisco Bay area and KFOG until 1985 when   he got a "nice 3-month contract" at WLVE in Miami. He moved back to Northern   California and stayed at KKIS-Concord, KRPQ-Rohnert Park and, by   1992, KYA-San Francisco. He was off to KOOL in Phoenix for big bucks — and   90 days to #1 — in 1994. And then, in 1997, Steve Rivers connected him with KISQ in San   Francisco, where he played r&b Oldies for 4.5 years — the longest gig of his   career.
Simon, Cat: KHJ, 1972-73. Cat is   self-employed in Internet sales in Phoenix.
Simon, Chris: KFWB, 1986-87; KNX, 1987-92. Chris was the ABC Radio Correspondent in   Sarajevo from 1993 through 1998, most recently working for ABC Radio in   Moscow, Russia. Chris is now an anchor reporter at WCCO-Minneapolis.
Simon, Don: KBIG, 1985-96.   Last heard, he was working for a Clear Channel station in Indianapolis.
 
 
(Tom   Schnabel, Ken Sparkes, Mort Sahl, and Bryan Schock)
Simon, Jan: KKGO, 1987-89;     KFAC, 1989; KKGO/KJQI/KMZT, 1989-2002. Jan left the Saul Levine operation in     the Fall of 2002 and now works at the Purdue University station, Classical   WBAA-Lafayette, Indiana.
Simon, Jim: KABC, 1970-76; KFI, 1976; KGIL,     1985-88; KKGO, 1991; XEKAM, 1992. Jim died June 6, 1995, of     complications from diabetes, an aneurysm and a stroke. He was     61.
Simon, Lou: KKHR, 1983-86; KNX/fm, 1986;   KLAC/Fabulous 690, 2004-06. Lou was apd/evenings at Pop Standards Fabulous   690 until an ownership change and format flip to Spanish in early 2006. He's   now with Sirius/XM Satellite Radio.
Simon, Perry Michael: KLSX, 1995-96;     KLYY/KSYY/KVYY, 1998-99. Perry is a consultant with     Allaccess.com and Sabo Media.
SIMPSON,     Mike: KNX, 2015-17. Mike joined KNX in September     2015 as a news anchor. He currently co-anchors afternoon drive with Diane Thompson. 
Prior to joining KNX, Mike worked as a reporter at KGO-San Francisco. He got his start at KFBK     in Sacramento.  
 Mike     spent years covering the State Capitol and Governor Brown, but he’s     also chased wildfires, taken part in breaking news coverage that won     Edward R. Murrow and APTRA Awards and has passed out in the back of     fighter jets - twice. 
He was born and raised in Sacramento and has psychology and     communication degrees from UC Davis. Mike spends free time training     for marathons, scrolling through Twitter and finding new     restaurants. He can’t cook. But he can eat.                                                                                                       
                                   
Sims, Robert: KABC, 1967-68; KNX, 1968-2002.     Bob retired from KNX in April 2002, after 33 years with the all-News station.
Sinbad: KHHT,   2002. Sinbad, the comedian/actor, started in morning drive at "Hot 92.3fm" on February 11, 2002 and left in late summer 2002. He appears on some productions for   a reality tv series.
SINCLAIR, Dick: KIEV, 1950-54; KFI, 1954-68; KIEV, 1968-2000; KRLA, 2001-02. Dick,    longtime host of Polka Party, died in October 2016, at the age of 91.
The Polka Party debuted during World War II on Guadalcanal    Island. Private Sinclair, who was a pioneer in the creation of the Armed    Forces Radio Service, first aired the show to an all G.I. audience over    the island’s military station. While at Guadalcanal he met George    Putnam.
Dick was born in Salt Lake City. After the war,    he enrolled and graduated from the University of Utah. He started at    KGIR in    Butte, Montana before coming to the Southland. A tv version of Polka    Party was syndicated in 65 markets and aired locally for two decades.    While at KFI he served as staff announcer and financial editor. For    decades, Dick was the pd of KIEV, which is now KRLA (870AM).
Siracusa, Tony: KCSN,   1985-87; KNX, 1987. Tony is with the Los Angeles Times Media Group.
Sirkin,   Bob: KNX, 2000-07. Bob is a freelance radio/tv reporter. He is based the New   London/Norwich, Connecticut area. 
SIRMONS, Tom: KNX, 1987-94. Tom died    December 31, 2014, at the age of 60. He spent nearly two decades as  a highly successful broadcast journalist. Tom received seven “Golden Mikes” awards from the Southern California Radio and Television News Association, plus  honors from United Press International for producing “Best Radio Documentary in  the Nation.” In addition to KNX, Tom spent many years in Florida and other  areas in the country as a news anchor and reporter.
When he left KNX,  Tom returned to his family home in St. Petersburg, Florida. He continued as a  writer offering “Sirmons’ Sermons” via his blog.
“Tom had dazzling  talent, with dramatic ups and downs,” recalled Robert Sims, former KNX news  director. “Tom was a superb news anchor who could cover foul-ups behind the  scenes with effortless ad-libs and flawless segues.” Sims said Tom was “fearless  and fast, always reliable and accurate” as a reporter, but it was Sirmons the  writer than stood out. “He wrote with a grace and clarity that put him beyond  the reach of meddling editors. What gifts!”
“Tom was an imperfect  genius. I'm very sorry he’s gone,” said Sims.
"I viewed Tom as a network-quality broadcaster with the talent and  intelligence to write his own ticket, radio or television," emailed Ed  Pyle, former KNX program director. "Whatever he was ultimately driven  to pursue I hope he was light of heart … fulfilled."
No cause of death has  been disclosed.
Sisanie:   KIIS, 2007-17. Sisanie worked middays at KIIS/fm until joining Ryan Seacrest  in morning drive in December 2015.
Sixx,   Nikki: KYSR, 2010-17. Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx joined 98-7fm for a weekend show   in July 2010.
Skaff, Ned: KDAY, 1968-70; KFI, 1970-79;     KGIL, 1979-92. Ned is the voice of the traffic and parking     conditions at LAX.
 
(Martha Shalhoub, Jeff Shade, Diana Steele, Michael Sheehy, and Sandy Shore)
Sketch:     KACD, 1996-98; KPWR,     1998-2003; KDLE, 2003. Sketch imaged for Big Boy.
Sky, Bob: KWIZ, 1975-77; KIQQ, 1986; KLIT,     1990. Unknown.
Skyler,   Dave: KTNQ; KHTZ; KIIS, 1988-90 and     1991-92; KKBT, 1990-91; KJLH, 1992-93; KRLA, 1993-96; KACE,     1996; KMLT, 1998-99; KRTH, 2008-17. Dave, also known as Sky Walker, left mornings at KNST-Tucson   in early 2006. He's working weekends at KRTH.
Skylord: KLOS,     1990-2011; KABC/KLOS, 2012-14. Skylord, Scott Reiff, reports on     traffic from the sky. When Cumulus purchased KLOS and KABC from Citadel,   Scott reported for both stations.
Slade, Karen: KJLH,     1990-2011. Karen is the     general manager at KJLH.
Slate, Allin: KIEV, 1950-62; KABC, 1963-69;     KNX, 1969-78. Allin died, July 21, 2000, at the age of 79. He     suffered a stroke in 1990 that slowed him down, "but did     not stop him," according to his daughter Lynne Darnell.     Allin also had Parkinson's Disease, and it was that to which     he finally succumbed. He arrived at KIEV from Honolulu     (worked at KULA).In 1964 Allin was sports director of KABC.     He joined KABC with the idea of doing an all-night sports     show. Instead he captained KABCs maiden voyage in early     evenings. He was told to "talk sports and make it     interesting." Guests were hard to come by and it was     strictly a raw experiment that developed into "SportsTalk." He worked with Leo Durocher and Jimmy     Piersall. Born in Illinois, Allin grew up in L.A. "I was     the kid who sat in the bleachers and called the game," said Allin when interviewed for Los Angeles Radio People.     He was a radio actor before World War II and worked in radio     dramas with Jack Webb. "I was working in the sound and     lighting department at the Biltmore Bowl while studying at     the Pasadena Playhouse. A waiter suggested that I try radio     acting." He became a regular with Keith Jackson on Sports     Scoreboard on KABC/Channel 7. Later Allin joined the     daily lineup on KNX News radio where he shared his insights     and thoughts on the world sports scene. His career had many     highlights. He starred as Jason, opposite Dame Judith     Anderson, in the Honolulu production of Medea; he was     the two-time winner of the Associated Press, Golden Mike     Award for excellence in broadcast journalism. He was honored     by the Los Angeles Sentinel newspaper for showing     fairness and consideration in reporting on the treatment of     African American athletes in the Mexico City Olympics. He was     also past president of Southern California Sports     Broadcasters Association and a long time member and supporter     of AFTRA. Allin was a poet, artist and writer with a great     sense of humor.
(Hal Smith, Kari Steele,   Melissa Sharpe, Charley Steiner, and Kurt St. Thomas) 
SLATER, Bill: KFWB, 1964-65; KRLA, 1965-67; KPPC, 1969-70. Bill died of a heart attack in late October 2002. He was 67.
Bill         started out with McLendon Top 40 powerhouse KILT-Houston in 1960.         He spent a year at WGR-Buffalo in 1963 before arriving for weekends at         KFWB. In 1966, Billboard published the results of the Radio Response Ratings, and         Bill tied for top all-night disc jockey in the Pop Singles category.         Between KRLA and KPPC, Bill was pd and did the evening shift at         Progressive KSJO-San Jose. After KPPC, Bill worked KZEL-Eugene, KZAP-Sacramento         and KQFM-Portland. The University of Houston radio/tv graduate returned to his hometown of Victoria, Texas, in         the 1980s, and worked radio and tv production. He also restored antique         photos at "Custom Copy Photos by Bill Slater." (Photo         is courtesy of Bill Earl, author of When Radio Was Boss) 
 
Slater,   Jenn: KNX, 2008-09. Jenn reports traffic at KNX Newsradio.
Slater,   Julie: KSWD, 2008-16. Julie joined 100.3/fm The Sound in the summer   of 2008 and left in January 2016.
Slattery, Jack: KLAC, 1959. The long-time     announcer on Art Linkletter's House Party has passed     away.
Slaughter, Paul: KBCA, 1968.   Paul lives in Sante Fe and is a highly respected photographer.
Slick, Vic: KRLA, 1984-87 and 1992. Vic works mornings at     Oldies KOLA in the Inland Empire.
Slim: KKHR, 1985-86. Slim is living in Phoenix.
Sliwa,   Curtis, KABC, 2007-09. His syndicated show ended its run at KABC in late   2009. He did mornings at WNYM-New York and now hosts afternoon drive at   WABC-New York.
SLOATMAN,                Dennis: Clear                Channel/LA,                2012-17. Sloatman was appointed chief                engineer for Clear                Channel/Los Angeles in                2012, replacing Terry Grieger.
“Dennis comes with a                wealth of experience in                the IT and engineering                worlds,” wrote Greg Ashlock,                in a memo to the staff. “Dennis has worked on                numerous special projects throughout many                Clear Channel markets -                and for the past 5 years                has held the chief                engineer position for                Cox in Richmond. He is                super excited about the                opportunity and can’t                wait to get started."
Sluggo: SEE Doug the Slug.
Smalls, Tommy: KDAY, 1958-59.   Known as Dr. Jive, Tommy was implicated with Alan Freed in the payola   scandal. He became promotions director at Polydor Records. Tommy died after   a short illness in early 1972, at the age of 45.
Smiley, Tavis: KGFJ; KJLH; KKBT, KABC, 1994;     KMPC, 1994-95; KCRW and KPCC, 2002-04. Tavis hosted a nightly talk/interview   show on PBS until December 2004.
 
 
(Frazer Smith, Stryker, and Bill Smith)
Smith, Bill: KGIL, 1970-76;     KABC, 1980-90; KNJO, 1996. Bill was an on-air reporter at KTLA/Channel 5   until late summer 2008.
Smith,   Bill: KEZY, 1986; KFI, 1987-94; KMPC, 1995. Bill was born in Elgin, Illinois   and went to the University of North Colorado. In 1994, he briefly worked tv   at KCAL and KTLA. When Bill left the Southland he worked in Denver in the   late 90s. He's currently owner/president of Radar Marketing Group in   Amherst, New Hampshire.
Smith, Billy Ray: KXTA, 1997-2003; XERB,     2003-15. The former     San Diego Charger linebacker was the co-anchor of morning all-Sports "The     Mighty 1090" until the summer of 2012. He returned in early 2013.
Smith, Bobby: KGFJ, 1973. Unknown.
Smith, Calvin: KFAC. Calvin launched his     first Los Angeles radio station in 1926 with a $200     investment and introduced KFAC's Classical music format. He     and an L.A. High School classmate scraped up $200 and went on     the air as station KGFJ. They broadcast only when they had     something to say, then went off the air and spent the balance     of their time trying to sell commercials so they could     resurface the next day. He went to work for KFAC in 1932 as     chief engineer and became manager during a difficult     Depression-era economy. His first success was the ongoing     Southern California Gas Co. two-hour evening concert. The     former owner of KFAC died in August 1991. He was 86. 
SMITH, China: KDAY, 1971-72; KRLA, 1972-73; KROQ, 1973-74; KMET, 1974-75; KLOS, 1979; KWST, 1980-81; KMGG, 1983-84; KUTE, 1984-87; KTWV, 1989-91; KAJZ/KACD,     1992-96. KCBS, 1999-2001. China died August 23, 2005, after suffering a   fatal heart attack. He was 61. China was one of the big L.A. voices for three decades. Once you heard    China’s voice, you never forgot it. It shook the speakers.  
Thomas Wayne Rorabacher was born  in Grand Rapids in 1943. In 1969, at KCBQ-San Diego, pd Gary Allyn gave  him the name China. The name Smith was picked to give an ethnic balance of  exotic and American. Bob Wilson brought China to the Southland to work  AOR KDAY from KING-Seattle. China was also an accomplished artist, using his computer to produce  fabulous digital pieces.   
The business wasn’t always kind to  China. In the Spring of 2003, China fell on hard times and the following story  appeared at LARadio.com: 
This is a difficult story to  write. The subject is a nice guy. But his circumstances are uncomfortable. No  one wants to write this kind of a story, especially the subject of this story.   
Ten years ago when I naively  started researching the first edition of Los Angeles Radio People, I thought of  the project as a fun look for some of our early radio people and to learn about  their journey. It turned tragic rather quickly. One of the brightest Top 40  stars in L.A. radio was living in a box at Vermont and Hollywood Boulevard.  Others had taken their lives or because of a hard lifestyle, life had taken them  early. Many had just disappeared.   
It seemed that success came  early to our radio people and then circumstances, and now consolidation, have  made employment difficult. Many were just not prepared for the eventuality when  the microphone would be turned off. Somehow many thought the swirling red light  would remain on outside the studio until retirement.   
I found the thrill of those who  made it to be exhilarating. I gravitated to those who made lemonade out of  lemons. A young David Hall had dreams. Still in his twenties, David was  driving his Volkswagen when a drunken truck driver with two loads of cement  crashed into his car, and the gas tank exploded trapping him in his car. He lost  both legs and within six months was walking on artificial legs. David was given  an opportunity at KNX/fm. He loved acting and soon found himself in the role of  a double amputee in Gene Hackman’s Class Action (written by LARP Chris Ames),  Judge Swaybill in L.A. Law and a ton of cartoon voice work. David is now the  coroner in the hugely successful CSI tv series. “Life could be a  dream…Sh-Boom.”   
The purpose of this story is a  cry for help. One of our own is hurting. He’s a breath away from being homeless.  It would be easy to dissect his past and lament at some of the left and right  turns he took with his decisions. We could talk about some of his medical  setbacks, but this is not about the past. This is about now and very real. He’s  ready to go. He’s in the starting block and needs an opportunity to begin the  race. He’s been with some incredible stations, yet can’t get a job.  
His name is China Smith and he needs a job or an assignment. China doesn’t want your pity; all he wants  to do is pay the rent this month before he gets thrown out on the street. He's  already received a notice to vacate and no place to go. Perhaps you can help.  He’s not begging. I am. Radio in 2003 is different and there is a new  generation. If you have any compassion for those who have gone before you, this  is the time for you to reach into your arsenal and help. We all know that times  are tough. We all know that jobs are tough to come by. For those who care about  the L.A. radio community and the fraternity of 4,000 voices during the past  half-century, this is your turn to make an investment.   
And so many of you did help and  you made a difference. He was very grateful for the outpouring of love and  support. He died following a heart attack in his apartment. China had been in  failing health with heart disease and he needed to replace both knees. He  continued to smoke until his death.  
(Clayton Sandell, Marco Spoon, Arnie Spanier, and Dr. Laura     Schlessinger)
Smith, Dave: KIEV, 1993;     KMAX, 1995-96; KWNK, 1996; KIIS/AM/KXTA, 1997-2002; KMPC, 2003-07; KLAA,   2008-09. Dave worked afternoons at KMPC/1540 The Ticket until the spring of   2007 when the station was sold to Radio Korea. He co-hosted morning drive at   the Angels station, KLAA, until early summer of 2009. He's now with the NBC   Sports Radio Network working weekends.
Smith, Dennis:   KBIG, mid-1960s; KBCA, 1969-78. Unknown.
Smith, Frazer: KROQ, 1976-79; KLOS, 1979-84;     KMET, 1984-86; KLSX, 1986-97; KLOS, 1997; KRTH, 2002; KLOS, 2014-17. Frazer   works weekends at KLOS.
Smith,   Hal: KLAC, 1972-76. Hal is retired and living in Northern California.
Smith, Jack: KLAC, 1957-59. Jack is retired.
Smith, Jan: KWIZ. Unknown.
SMITH, JJ: KNX, 1962; KABC; KPOL; KRLA, 1975; KFI, 1978. JJ broadcast news during his time     in the Southland. He was one of the last voices of  the original radio network newscasts. JJ died from intestinal cancer on July 28,     2014.  in Burbank. He was 88.
As a radio  newsman, JJ landed at KNX from WGN-Chicago in 1962, said his longtime friend and  colleague, Dave Sebastian Williams. In 1958, JJ became the voice of  everything Sears (a total of 26 years) and wanted to move to LA. 
As the story goes,  Sears picked up the phone and secured JJ a job at KNX. The Bob Crane Morning  Show ('57-'65) was already a fixture at KNX when JJ arrived, handling the  morning show newscasts. Later, he replaced Ken Ackerman on the American  Airlines Music ‘til Dawn national radio show before moving on to KABC,  KPOL and finally KFI.
JJ earned 3 Golden Mike  Awards while in Los Angeles.  He retired from his day-to-day newsroom duties as  he chose to leave KFI in the late 1970’s while it was a music station. 
Through the 80’s, 90’s  and the new millennium, JJ continued to work as a voiceover actor.  He voiced  over 1,200 Industrials,  thousands of radio commercials, and hundreds of tv  spots.  Beginning in 2005, JJ voiced Chrysler 300 spots for tv, radio, and  dealers. JJ Smith's last agent of record was the William Morris Agency.  JJ  went on hiatus a couple of years ago to replace one knee and half of another,  followed by a hip replacement. JJ turned 88 in early April this year and was  optimistically mounting his VO career again when, in late April, he was  diagnosed with his illness.
Dave Sebastian Williams  remembered his friend:
“In the 70’s,  during one of my three stays at KIIS/fm  / KPRZ (K-Praise) my then VO agent and Casey Kasem’s longtime friend / VO  agent and former legendary SF Bay Area radio personality, Don Pitts, called me  to produce a game show demo for one of his VO clients.  That client was JJ  Smith.
From the day JJ  and I met we were friends and grew even closer over the  years. In the late 70’s, under Biggie Nevins and John Rook at KFI,  JJ handled the evening newsroom and on-air duties during my Top 40 music show."
Smith,   Jason: KSPN, 2008-09. Jason was part of the ESPN syndicated programming heard   at KSPN.
SMITH, Joe: KFWB, 1961. The former president     and chief executive of the Capitol-EMI record label produced     World Cup USA 1994. As the former prexy of Warner Bros., Elektra and   Capitol Records, he has donated recorded interviews with more than 200 top   musicians to the Library of Congress. Smith's archives, comprising 238 hours   of interviews taped over the course of two years, served as the basis for   the exec's book Off the Record, published by Warner Books in 1988.
Joe is also   an accomplished pianist. Earl McDaniel remembers introducing Joe in Japan in   1947. Joe started as a dj in Boston before becoming a weekender at "Channel   98."
Joe left KFWB in August 1961, refusing to cross the picket line. Only   Joe and Ted Quillin did not return to KFWB after the strike. He commented on   leaving his on-air career: "I felt an insecurity in the talent end of the   business. The emphasis had shifted from individual personalities to a   station's sound."
Born in 1928, Joe rose through the ranks of Warner Bros.   Music, beginning in 1961 when he was national promotion manager. He was   responsible for signing and developing the careers of such artists as the   Grateful Dead, James Taylor and Jimi Hendrix. By 1966, he was gm of the   label. At Capitol he helped revive the career of Bonnie Raitt. He has served   as president and ceo of Warner/AMEX Cable's sports entertainment.
In 1975,   Joe was made Elektra/Asylum Records chairman of the board. In 1993, he   became executive producer of entertainment activities for World Cup USA 1994   - the world's soccer championship.
Smith, Ken: KGFJ, 1986. Ken is part of     Bayley Productions.
(Ruth Seymour, John Summers, Hanna   Scott, and Dred Scott)
Smith,   Matt: KROQ, 1994-2005; KLAC, 2005-17. Known as Money at KROQ, Matt was part of   the LA Lakers broadcast team and he co-hosts an afternoon drive show at   KLAC with Petros Papadakis.
Smith, Milton: KJLH, 1992. Unknown.
Smith, Pete: KNX; KDAY, 1956-58; KRKD,     1958-61; KNOB; KPOL; KMPC, 1961-88; KJQI/KOJY, 1993-95; KGIL,     1998. Pete was part of "Music of Your Life."
Smith,   Stephen A: KSPN, 2007-09; KLAC, 2009-10; KSPN, 2011-13. Stephen's syndicated show was heard   all-night at all-Sports KLAC until late December 2010. In 2011, he joined   KSPN and the ESPN network. He seems to relish his role as sports talk's   reigning provocateur. He's now with ESPN2 and hosts a SiriusXM radio show.
Smith, Steve: KNX. The president of the Gay     Men's Chorus of Los Angeles died in April 1998 at the age of     38. Steve, who had suffered from AIDS, committed suicide.     Until overcome by his illness, he had been editorial director     for KNXNewsradio.
Smith, Steven G.: KLOS, 1977-98; KPLS,     1998-2000. Steven is working in Orange County.
Smith, Dr. J. Thomas: KJLH, 1970-72; XPRS, 1972; KDAY,     1975-77. J. Thomas replaced Wolfman Jack at XPRS. He graduated in 2000, earning     the Juris Doctor degree, from Texas Southern University -     Thurgood Marshall School of Law. He is associated with the     law firm of Anderson & Smith, P.C., and operates a mental     health consulting practice in which he provides     administrative and clinical consultation and training.
 
His world travels gave him the opportunity to learn a half-dozen languages   and he attended the
University
of
Mexico
in the 1960s. “While studying journalism and drama at the San Fernando   Valley State College, I interned at KFWB and quickly became a special   features reporter and anchorman.” Dick later won just about every award in
California
radio,   including five Golden Mike awards. His book, Kung Fu: History, Philosophy & Technique, is still selling as a   trade paperback. His new book, in progress, is based on his provocative   interviews with
America
’s   best authors.  Dick has served as   president of many local trade organizations. As a financial news anchorman,   he was part of the launch of all-Business KBLA on April 17, 1991. His   communication company produces radio/tv business programming, commercials   and infomercials.
Spanier, Arnie: KCTD, 1999-2000; KXTA, 2000-2002. Arnie   left the Dallas Cowboys stations in late spring 2012. He now works at Fox   Sports Radio.
Sparkes, Ken: KGBS, 1969-71. Ken owns a     production company and is the voice of news/talk TCN/Channel     9 in Australia.
Spears, Gary: KYSR/KIBB, 1996-97; KIIS,     1997-2004; KBIG, 2004-07. Gary started afternoons at KBIG in early summer of   2004 and left in the spring of 2007. He's now part of Classic Hits, K-Hits   in Chicago.
SPEARS,   Michael: KHJ, 1977. The former pd at KHJ died October 25, 2005, at the age   of 58. Michael, former program    director at Top 40 KHJ in 1977, was known as Hal Martin early in    his jocking career at KLIF-Dallas and CKLW-Detroit. He was a three-time    winner of Billboard Magazine's "Station Of The Year" award, and    also winner of "Program Director Of The Year" two times (once while he    was helming KFRC-San Francisco and once in Black radio. He is the only    Anglo ever to achieve this honor). Last year, Michael was inducted into    the Texas Radio Hall of Fame. 
At 19, he was working nights at  KLIF while attending SMU. When he left his on-air jock life for one of  programming, “Hal Martin” disappeared. When he left KHJ, Michael went on to  purchase with partners Tampa Bay's first all-Talk radio station, WPLP. He owned  the station four years prior to joining the Fairbanks Group as national pd. In  1978, Michael launched New World Media, a radio programming service. 
During his career, he programmed  WYSL-Buffalo, KFRC, and KNUS-Dallas (first fm station in Dallas). As programmer  at KKDA (“K104”)-Dallas for eight years, Michael achieved enormous success with  the Urban station. Michael was in the television business for two years  syndicating two national programs: The Beam, a black entertainment and  music show and Youth Quake, which were on the USA Network. In 1992,  Michael left Dallas to program WPNT-Chicago, a Hot AC station. He left in the  summer of 1994 and returned to the city of his greatest success to be operations  director of News/Talk KRLD-Dallas. Late in his career, he owned The Beam, a  media company that produced and syndicated both tv and radio programs.   
“Michael was always in love with  radio and the illusions radio can create,” commented Charlie Van Dyke. “Perhaps that is due to the fact that he was also an accomplished magician as a  young guy. He was passionate about radio and had boundless energy. We both  shared a McLendon DNA and, of course, the experiences of Drake and  RKO. Fellow Texans, we grew up with the same appreciation of radio performance  and the radio artists who fueled our desire to go into the business. Michael [or  Hal as I first met him] went at it with everything he had. I'm told that's also  how he approached his final battle with cancer. A friend who saw him last week  said that he was at peace with his life and with God. He made his mark, helped  people along the way, and always looked for the positive. Michael Spears was a  good man and I am happy that I knew him. Rest, my friend.”
Spears, Russ: KHTZ/KRLA/KLSX, 1983-93; KSCA, 1996-97; KKLA/KRLA,     2001-07; KFWB, 2007-15. Russ worked at Metro Traffic Network until the fall   of 2008 following a company downsizing. He's now heard on KFWB dispending   traffic information.
Spencer, Raymond: KGBS, 1973.     Raymond died May 25, 1987, in San Bernardino after a two-year struggle with     kidney cancer. 
SPERO, Stanley: KFAC, 1951-52; KMPC, 1952-97.     Stan, one of the giants in Southern California radio for a half     century, died July 15, 2006, from complications of a blood disorder.     He was 86. He was general manager at 710/KMPC during its MOR glory     years. “Stan Spero was one of the greatest salesmen I ever met, but     he was a man of integrity,” said Johnny Grant after     learning about Stan’s death. “You could go to the bank on his     word.” Johnny said that Stan loved counseling young radio     people. “Stan Spero’s influence will be around L.A. radio for a long     time,” concluded Grant. 
“Stan was a superb radio guy and he meant the world to me,” said Wink Martindale. “He was my choice to be first     speaker for my Walk Of Fame star installation. It was Stan who gave     me the opportunity to be a part of the KMPC lineup where I was     thrilled and pleased to work for him and Gene Autry a total of twelve years. 
“Stan has been a close friend for almost 50 years,” emailed George Green, former gm at KABC. “We first met when Stanley     was running perhaps the most legendary station in Los Angeles, KMPC.     I was a young sales manager in 1965 making my national sales calls.     And I remember meeting Stanley in the lobby of the United Airlines     agency, Leo Burnett. I was schlepping a heavy briefcase up to the     agency and Stanley was without a briefcase looking very dapper in     his suit. I asked Stan where his briefcase was and he pulled out a     rate card from his suit jacket and held that up to me. This is it.     Of course, there was a standing line to get on KMPC.”  
Green continued: “KMPC was a fabulous radio property and Stanley did a great   job as its manager. KMPC was THE station serving the L.A. community. It   never changed as long as Stan was in charge. Stanley never changed in his   devotion to the LA community. To this day he served on the Hollywood Chamber   of Commerce. And to this day he was the only general manager who has been   invited to serve as a permanent honorary member of the Southern California   Broadcasters Association. His devotion to the community and his family and   friends is unmatched.” 
Green   said that Stan had a love for sports, especially the Anaheim Angels. “He has   been a continuous fan for as long as the Angels have played baseball. He   traveled down to Anaheim, even when he was working for KABC, who handled the   Dodgers. Such devotion. Even when I managed KMPC I was reluctant to drive   that distance. Stanley loved the drive, the ball team and his two wives who   were so devoted to Stanley and his interest levels. When his first wife   Fritzy Spero died he was lucky to have found another sports fan with his   wife Harriet. He has always been quick to say that he was so lucky to have   been in love with Fritzy and now to have found a second love, Harriet   Spero."
"Yes,   Stanley was a good friend," continued Green. "There has rarely been a week   that Stanley didn’t call and ask how I was doing. He did that with all his   close friends. Loyal, devotion and love was what Stanley offered. And talk   about being smart and knowledgeable about sports. Don’t try to stump him on   who was playing for the Angeles, the Rams (when they were here) or UCLA   football or basketball. His mind was clear as a bell. It was his body that   gave out first. Everyone who knew Stanley Spero will miss him greatly. To   have had him as a close friend was an honor to me and many others.
“It is   my great pleasure and honor to call Stan Spero a mentor and dear friend for   nearly forty years,” wrote his long-time friend Ken Miller. “The radio industry will long remember ‘Day Cruiser 10’ with tremendous   respect for all of his innumerable contributions to sports broadcasting,   charitable causes and quality programming.”
"Here's   the kind of man Stan Spero was," wrote Dan Avey. "Stan, as   gm of KMPC, the Gene Autry flagship for Angels baseball, had to fire Don Wells from the Angel baseball broadcast to make way for Dick Enberg. When he called Wells in to his office to tell him,   Stan then told Don he had a job, starting the next Monday, doing sports at   KFWB. How many bosses felt so bad about firing you that they went out and   got you another job? Stan Spero reeked with integrity. God bless him!"
Stan   started his 40+ year career in sales at KFAC, moving to KMPC two years later   and staying 42 years. When Stan stepped down as gm in 1978, he took over as   parent Golden West's vp in charge of sales for its sports division. In the   mid-1990s he was senior sports consultant to KABC/KMPC. Stan was born and   raised in Cleveland Heights, Cleveland, Ohio and came to the Southland to   study at USC. He received a B.S. degree in business administration. 
Spiker, Dave: KYMS, 1976-82. Dave owns     Imagination Media in Lynden, WA.
Spinderella:     KKBT, 2003-06. Deidra Jones is the sexy dj of the Grammy award winning female     trio Salt N' Peppa. She worked afternoons at "the BEAT" with A-1   until early 2006. She was working at an Urban station in Dallas until March   2011.
SPIVAK,     Joel A.: KLAC,     1965-68. Son of big band leader Charlie Spivak, Joel distinguished     himself as a talk show host and news commentator. One of his fellow     workers at KLAC said of Joel: "What a wonderful guy. He arrived in     Southern California from the East. He got off the airplane with an     umbrella, wearing spats, a fedora hat, tight, close-fitting suit and     narrow tie. He was a bit out of touch but within a month of his     arrival, everyone loved him."
 
His radio career began quite     unintentionally when he took a temporary job at a local station     while attending the University of North Carolina. He came to KLAC     following five years at KILT-Houston and four at WPRO-Providence.
 
When     Joel left the Southland he could be heard over the next decade in     Philadelphia and Washington, DC. During his time in the nation’s     capital he was called a "moderator, catalyst, interviewer, and     devil's advocate."
 
Joel died of lung cancer on March 4, 2011,     at his home in Virginia. In a 1990 interview with C-Span, he said     radio was more fun than television. "You don't have the time     constraints that you do with television. People have more fun     listening to the radio because they can see anything they want to     see. . . . It's a very personal medium."
 
Since 1996, he had worked against tobacco use and was a spokesman     for the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
Spoon, Marco: KJLH, 1980-90. Marco hosts the     Quiet Storm at "Majic 102"- Houston.
Springfield, Dan: KHTZ, 1984.   Dan has an active voiceover career in San Diego.
Squiers, Kirk. KDES, 1981-83;   KFOX/fm, 1983-85. “Captain Kirk” worked morning drive at KFOX/fm.       
Squirle, Julie: KROQ, 1978-79. Julie is a     litigation attorney in Northern California.
 
(Dave   Sebastian, Kirk Squires, Melissa & Jim Sharpe, Jim Severn, and Matt   Smith)
St. Clair, Dick: KFI. 1976.     Unknown.
St. Claire, Chuck: KCBH, 1968. Chuck is a     project coordinator for Salem Communications and lives in     Northern California.
St. James, Scott: KMPC, 1979-82; KMGG,   1984; KMPC, 1991-92 and 1995; KCBS/fm, 1995-2004. Scott is a Hollywood actor.
St. James, Tony: KYMS, 1969-70; KWIZ,     1970-74; KWOW, 1974-78; KIQQ, 1978-85. The native     Philadelphian teamed at KIQQ in morning drive with Bruce     Chandler for close to five years until the station changed     format to "Lite-100," the satellite-delivered     Format 41. In 1987, he went to work at Unistar and was the     original night jock on AM ONLY. He had a very lucrative     voiceover career and his campaign for Coors Extra Gold     provided the down payment on his house. Tony died April 22,     1990, at the age of 42 from complications following a     perforated ulcer.
St. John, Geoff: KPWR, 1993-95. Last heard,     Geoff was working at KYLD-San Francisco.
St. John, Gina: KYSR, 1993-95. Gina     co-hosted E! News Daily for many years.
St. John,   Jon: KRTH, 2006-07. Jon was working swing at K-EARTH until early 2007. He has since provided the voice for numerous video game characters, most   notably Duke Nukem and Big the Cat and E-123 Omega from Sonic the Hedgehog.
St. Regis,   Lisa: KHHT, 2010-15. Lisa worked weekends at HOT 92.3 until a format flip in   early February 2015.
St. THOMAS,     Bobby: KBLA, 1966; KFWB, 1967. Bobby, born Thomas C. "Tommy" Roche, passed away suddenly on September 17, 2012, in San Diego. He     was 78.
He was born on April 20, 1934, and grew up in New     Haven. Tommy joined the U.S.     Navy during the Korean war, serving as a hospital corpsman and prosthetic technician. Upon     discharge from the Navy, he attended the University of Connecticut     at Storrs. While at UConn he was active on the campus radio station     WHUS as radio personality, special events director, producing remote     broadcast from various campus events and jazz concerts. He also was     play-by-play announcer for all UConn basketball and football games.     These experiences led Tommy to enter the broadcast industry.
In 1965 he worked as half of the Murphy & Harrigan team at     KLIF-Dalls. He     lived most of his life in San Diego (KCBQ and KFMB) and worked under the name Thomas     Murphy. (Artwork courtesy of Bill Earl)
St. Thomas, Johnny: KRLA,   1979-85; KKLA, 1985-88. Since 1988, Johnny has been selling insurance. He's   a vp at Supple-Merrill & Driscott in Pasadena. He also worked as John Newton.
ST. THOMAS,   Kurt: KROQ, 2009-15. Kurt was a weekend fill-in joq and     before that was at Indie 103.1 briefly.
Kurt was born on August 5, 1963. He     is an award winning filmmaker, author, and dj. He worked at the     WFNX-Boston from 1987 to 1995 as a production director, music     director, and ultimately as program director.
In 1996 He     began collaborating with Mike Gioscia in making what would become     the feature film Captive Audience. The gritty black and     white 16mm film focused on a strange bond between an overnight dj     and a gun toting intruder. The film won seven international Film     Festival awards including three at the 1999 Planet Indie Film     Festival in Toronto, Board Of     Directors Award Nashville Film Festival 1999, Best Feature Magnolia     Independent Film Festival 2000, and Best Feature Editing Rhode     Island International Film Festival 2000.
He worked briefly as     the afternoon drive host on Indie 103.1 at the end of 2008 before     the station was flipped to Spanish. He then spent seven years doing     weekends and fill-in at KROQ.
On January 29, 2008 St. Thomas     launched Houndstooth Radio, an internet radio station broadcasting     from the garage of his house. The station features mostly new     independent artists, houndstoothradio.com. St. Thomas is co-author     of Nirvana The Chosen Rejects. On August 17, 2012, WFNX,     now an Internet-only station, re-hired St. Thomas as its executive     music producer. The new WFNX.com lasted just five months. (Wikipedia)
Staab,   Rochelle: KIIS, 70s. Rochelle was program director at KIIS. She recently   published a mystery novel.
Stack,   Bill: KFWB, 1983; KMDY, 1985-86; KNJO, 1986. Bill is now working for the   State of California as Emergency/911/Public Safety Dispatcher.
Stacy,   Rick: KYSR, 1995-96. Rick is the program director for XM's '80s at 8'   channel.
Staggs, Brad: KGIL/fm, 1987. Brad works on     camera on several of the Home and Garden tv shows. Brad lives in Nashville.
Stanfield, Ray: KLAC, 1966-69; KGBS,     1970-74. The former gsm at KLAC in the 1960s and gm of KGBS     in the 1970s , Ray grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and     started his radio career in his hometown at age 16. After two     years in the Navy, serving in the Pacific after the war, he     returned to work in Greenville and eventually joined     Metromedia. Before arriving in the Southland, Ray worked at a     rep firm and managed KMBC-Kansas City. Bill Ballances "Feminine Forum" and the creation of the Hudson & Landry morning team were launched under Rays     watch. After leaving KGBS in 1974, Ray became a radio station     broker in Southern California. He died after a two-year     battle with colon cancer. After leaving KGBS, Ray became a     radio station broker in Southern California. Ray passed away     April 24, 1999, at the age of 71.
STANLEY,     Chris: KNX, 1998-2007. Chris died June 9, 2012, of     an apparent heart attack. He was 64.
Chris Stanley joined     KNX in December of 1998 as an anchor/reporter and left a decade     later.
In his fourth decade of broadcasting, he     began his career as a Top 40 dj at WGBT in Goldsboro, North     Carolina. Later, during the Vietnam War he was with Armed Forces     Radio in Thailand, and afterwards he went from being a disk jockey     to news reporter at WIVK and WNOX in Knoxville, Tennessee. He worked     at various radio stations in Wisconsin before moving to Houston     in 1975 where he became news director at KPFT/fm. He subsequently produced     syndicated news and entertainment programs such as "The Daily     Planet" and "The Planet," in San Francisco, where he and     the late Steve Capen had a popular morning show on KSAN. He went on     to produce "Direct News" in New     York where he was news director at WPIX/fm from 1980-82.
He joined the CBS Radio network in 1982 and     worked there for 16 years as an anchor/reporter. Other areer     highlights include a Peabody award for his 1979 series on the     Jonestown massacre and covering six political conventions, especially in 1996 when he was     on the campaign trail with Pat Buchanan and Robert Dole. He then     joined the CBS Radio Network as an anchor/reporter before coming to     Los Angeles and KNX. Chris attended Pepperdine University.
Stanley, Lisa: KRTH,     2002-17. Lisa joined morning drive as the entertainment contributor at "K-Earth" in July 2002   and is now co-host of the morning show.
 
 
(Ed Salamon, William Shearer, and T.J. Simers)
Stark, Mike: KNAC,   1990-94. Since 1995, Mike has been the West Coast producer of the Tom Joyner Morning Show. He also   owner/operator of the LA Radio Studio (laradiostudio.com).
STARLING, David: KFI, 1940-71; KFAC,     1972-88. David, a seasoned broadcast pioneer     who began his career in the Southland, died February 22,     2000, of a heart attack in Los Angeles.
Born in Middletown,     Ohio, David came to the Southland to attend UCLA where he     graduated in 1936 with a pre-legal degree. It was accidental     that he got into radio. While working in a little theater a     fellow actor suggested he join his group doing radio shows.     This led David to a three-decade run with KFI as news     director, editorial director, program director and production     manager. He was the announcer for "Hit the Road," "Ladies Day" and reading the Sunday comics from the LA Times on the air every Sunday morning.
Some twenty     years later he hosted at KFI and KFAC over 2,000 90-second     programs called "A Word on the Presidency," "Energy" and "A Word on Tomorrow."
Since     retiring he worked quite a few Los Angeles County Fairs and     taught in a local radio school. "I have enjoyed the days     spent, able to do what I liked, but I haven't forgotten it     was tough going when trying to get a start," David told     me when researching my book. He was 84.
Starr, Bob: KMPC, 1980-89. Bob was the play-by-play broadcaster for the Rams     and the Angels. He was brought in from KMOX-St. Louis where     he had been the voice of the St. Louis Cardinals for eight     seasons. He had two stints as the announcer for the     California Angels. During his first tour he worked with Ron     Fairly and then left to broadcast Boston Red Sox games,     returning in 1993. Bob started his sports broadcasting career     in the mid-1950s. Bob died August 3, 1998, at the age     of 65.
Starr,   Steve: KPFK, 2002-05. Steve was a host and general manager during his time   with the Pacifica station. He's working on film and technology projects.
Steadman, Bill: KNX, 1957-60. Unknown.
Steal, Jimmy: KPWR,     1999-2017. Jimmy is     program director at "Power 106" and in the fall of     2000 he was promoted to regional vp of programming for Emmis     Communications.
STECK,   Jim: KRLA, 1964-67. Jim arrived in the Southland from KACY-Oxnard and was a   newsman during the era when KRLA brought the Beatles to L.A. conducting many   of the interviews with the Fab Four. He is remembered for boarding a plane   with Dave Hull to interview the Beatles before the plane took off. When he   left the Southland he went to the Bay Area and worked for KCBS and KTVU/TV.   Jim eventually spent time in Hawaii. In 1993, it was discovered that Jim had   an inoperable brain tumor. A colleague noted, "He had humor all the way   through till his death." 
Born in Pittsburgh,   Pennsylvania in 1935 he branched out in the mid-1960s and combined his radio   work with a stint on Teen Scope, a public affairs show aimed at the   Los Angeles teen audience and aired on KCOP/Channel 13. Steck, a Korean War   veteran, died on September 27, 1990 and was buried at the San Francisco   National Cemetery. (Thanks to Bill Earl for the artwork)
Steckler, Doug: KLSX,     1997-2005. Doug worked     evenings with Tim Conway, Jr. at KLSX until late Spring 2005. He went on to appear   with Conway at KFI on Friday nights until the summer of 2015.
Steele, Dave: KPOL, 1977-78. Dave worked     afternoons at KPOL. Unknown.
Steele, Diana: KKBT, 1989-98; KHHT,     2003-07; KRBV, 2008; KSWD, 2011-14. Diana joined mornings at V-100 (KRBV) in   January 2008 and left when Radio-One sold the station to Bonneville in April   2008. She worked weekends and part-time at 100.3/The Sound.
Steele, Ed: KIEV, 60s. Ed,   who was working at KPLM-Palm Springs, died in a gas explosion in his Desert   Hot Springs home.
STEELE, The     Real Don: KHJ, 1965-73; KIQQ,     1973-74; KTNQ, 1976-77; KRLA,     1985-89; KODJ, 1990; KCBS, 1992; KRTH,     1992-97. A California boy with a mouthful of energy, The Real Don     Steele personified all that was right about afternoon drive. When     you think center stage, think the Real Don Steele. At the end of a     school or work day, Don has lifted our spirits like no other over     the course of three decades.
He was born Donald Steele     Revert and born for stardom in Hollywood on April Fools Day, 1936     and attended Hollywood High School. Don’s mother gave him the middle     name of Steele because it was a good show business name. Before     making the round-trip home to Los Angeles radio, he worked at     KOIL-Omaha, KISN-Portland and KEWB-San Francisco.
Don was     the original afternoon drive "Boss Jock" at “93/KHJ.” He was the dj     on the air when the station debuted in 1965  and he     described the moment: "We were standing literally at ground zero,     then it became a huge giant. It was like a mushroom cloud that went     up - heavy on the mushroom."
In 1967, he hosted a Canadian     syndicated radio show called CBC's Action Set, and in the     same year he made his acting debut in ABC/TV's Bewitched. In 1967     and 1968 Don's popularity and influence were such that he was named Billboard's #1 air personality influencing the sales of     record singles. "Tina Delgado is Alive, Alive!" became his afternoon     cry. He had his own weekly tv show, The Real Don Steele Show,     which was the top rated rock-and-roll television dance show in     Southern California from 1968 to 1975.
Legendary filmmaker     Roger Corman utilized Don to create movie versions of fast-talking,     hip characters numerous times. He starred in movies with Sylvester     Stallone, David Carradine and Ron Howard in cult classics such as Death Race 2000, Rock & Roll High School, Grand Theft Auto and Eating Raoul. In the early '80s,     Don hosted Music USA, a syndicated radio show for the     Golden West stations. The late '80s saw a resurrection of his tv     dance show on Orange County's KDOC/TV. Live From the Sixties,     a successful, nationally syndicated weekly radio show brought The     Real Don Steele into over 300 markets coast-to-coast. It originally     aired from 1987 to 1993 and is still heard in reruns in many places     in the country.
Philip   Eberly, in his definitive book on the history of radio and pop music, Music in the Air, cited the following excerpt as an example of "Boss   Radio" as delivered by The Real Don Steele between records: "It's three   o'clock in Boss Angelese! hey hey, HEY, thitz me, The Real Don Steele! A   billion dollar weekend there, and you're looking out of sidewalk call. I got   nothing but groovy those groovy golds. We're gonna kick it out here on a   fractious Friday boy, got to get a set outside that (unintelligible words   resembling blowing bubbles in a glass of water) jumbo city! (Pause). Take a   trip. When you chase'em daylight!" It took 11 seconds.
In 1995,   The Real Don Steele received his Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He   passed away on August 5, 1997, due to complications from cancer. He was 61.
Steele, Gregg: KNAC, 1991-95. Gregg     left his position as VP/Music Programming at Sirius XM Satellite Radio in   March 2016.
Steele, Kari: KOST,   1999-2001; KBIG, 2001-11; KOST, 2011-17. Kari works middays at KOST.
 
(Sluggo, Stephen A. Smith, and   Nikki Sixx)
Steele,     Michael: KDLE, 2004-07. The former music director at KIIS/fm was appointed pd     at "Indie 103" on January 1, 2004. He left Indie in February 2007.   In the fall of 2012, he joined Northern Lights Broadcasting/Minneapolis as   director of ops and pf of Hot AC KTWN (K-Twin 96.3). He left the Twin Cities   in late 2014.
Steele, Mike: SEE Mike Sakellarides
Steele, Shadow: KQLZ, 1989-91. Last heard he     was writing for Hits magazine.
Steele, Sharon: KEZY, 1992-93. Sharon   was     working evenings at Westwood One's Hot Country format.
 
(Phil Shuman, Steven O Sellers, and Paul Sunderland)
Steele, Shaune McNamara: KHJ, 1977-80; KHTZ,     1980-84; KHJ, 1984-86; KRLA, 1987-90; KLSX, 1990-92; KRTH,     1992-93; KCBS, 1993-94. Shaune was music director for many     leading rock stations. She is documenting, archiving,     presenting and preserving the radio legacy of her late     husband, The Real Don Steele.
Stein, Jim: KUSC, 1969-72. Jim is a Chicago native. He   co-hosted The Stein and Illes Show on KUSC and went on to become a tv   writer/producer for 30 years, winning 2 Emmy awards in partnership with Bob   Illes. Jim produced Howard Stern's Son of the Beach show. 
Stein, Les: SEE Les Crane
Stein, Mike: KRHM, 1959. Unknown.
 
(Bob Shannon, Maria Sanchez, Stanley Sheff, Rick Scarry, and Tracy Simers)
STEIN, Alex "Sleepy": KNOB, 1957-66. "Sleepy," the     founder of the Southland's first all-Jazz station KNOB, died     July 27, 2000.
Born in Savannah, the son of a news service     executive, he grew up in Miami and Havana and graduated from     the University of Havana with a degree in languages. He     worked in New York and Chicago radio in the '40s. Stein got     the name "Sleepy" when he replaced an all-night dj     in Chicago named "Wide-Awake Widoe," according to     the obit in the LA Times.
He came to the Southland     to work at KFOX from Phoenix where he programmed KARV. In     1957, he bought KNOB and began all-Jazz programming. Stan     Kenton helped him finance the station by contributing the     profits from his band's appearance at the Rendezvous Ballroom     in Balboa. In the early '60s, Sleepy hosted a radio show     three nights a week from Strollers, a club in Long Beach,     with live performances by players like Chico Hamilton. He     sold the station in 1966 and started a firm called GROUP LA,     which sold time on several fm stations in the Southland. He     eventually left the broadcasting business and became a     stockbroker. "Sleepy" died of cancer at the age of     81.
STEINBRINCK, Bob: KMPC 1972-92. Bob,     newsman at Gene Autry’s 710/KMPC for over two     decades, passed away on June 17, 2015. He was 82.
Bob was born in Oak Park, Illinois and from childhood he aspired to     be a voice on the radio. His first opportunity arose at WCAZ in     Carthage, Illinois, where he was a college student. He played     records and read the news for 90 cents an hour. After graduating     from Carthage College in 1954, he did a two-year stint in the Army     and one year of graduate school at the University of Illinois. He     held his first radio news job in Janesville, Wisconsin. His next     position was as a newsman at WREX/TV in Rockford, Illinois. From     there he moved up to become news director at WAAP in Peoria.
He then relocated to Riverside to be     news director at Dick Clark’s     KPRO. While living in Riverside, he broadcast Riverside City College     basketball, every race at Riverside International Raceway, the early     years of racing at the Ontario Motor Speedway and the Long Beach     Grand Prix.
Bob garnered ten Golden Mike awards, broadcast UCLA football and basketball   games and, as KMPC’s Washington correspondent, he traveled with President   Ford on his trip behind the Iron Curtain to the Helsinki Accord.
Upon his   retirement from radio, for over 20 years he wrote a weekly column for the Riverside County Record. He also   voiced his column on InlandNewsToday.com for three years before his death.   An avid golfer, Bob was an Honorary Life Member of the PGA and member of   Victoria Club.  
(Saint John, Gianna Suter,   Tony St. James, and Doug Stephan)
Steiner,   Charley: KFWB, 2004-07; KABC, 2007-11; KLAC, 2011-17. Charley joined the Dodger broadcast booth in late 2004.
Stench:   SEE Mike Roberts
Stephan,     Doug: KRLA, 2002-03; KPLS, 2003; KFWB, 2008-15; KLAA, 2009. Doug's syndicated show aired   on the weekend at KFWB.
Sterling, Philip: KCSN. Philip hosted "Goldensterling," a weekly two-hour program that     aired on KCSN. He died from complications of myelofibrosis, a     bone marrow disease, on November 30, 1998. He was 76.
Stern,     Heidi: KBIG, 1998-99. Heidi is working in San Diego.
Stern, Howard: KLSX,     1991-2005. Howard joined Sirius Satellite Radio in early 2006. He was also a   judge on America's Got Talent.
 
 
(Laurie Sanders, and Tori Signal)
Stern, Kevin: KUSC, 1969-71; KIQQ, 1974-79; KCSN, 1974-81;     KGBS/ KTNQ, 1977-80. Kevin     owns California Auto Repair in the San Fernando Valley.
Sternberg, Ira David: KWIZ, 1968-70; KOST,     1971-73. Ira owns a PR agency in   Las Vegas and hosts a weekly talk show at: kunv.org.
Sterns,   Deloy: KWVE, 2005-08. Deloy worked afternoon drive at KWVE.
Stevens, Andy: KEZY, 1988-94. Andy has been     the announcer for ESPN's American Muscle Magazine for most of the nineties. He's now working as a computer     programmer/analyst consultant for an international     consultancy firm based in Atlanta. 
STEVENS, Bill: KUTE, 1973-79, pd; KKGO, 1983-86; KRTH, 1991-2003. Bill was born and raised in     Montebello. He started his radio career in 1964 at KRFS-Superior,     Nebraska, and went on to KODY-North Platte, KUDO-Riverside, KFXM-San     Bernardino, KLOK-San Jose, KYNO-and KFIG-Fresno in 1971 as pd.
He was pd of KUTE during the disco era and described the station     at the time to the LA Times: "Although we identify     ourselves as a Disco station, I think it's altogether appropriate     for us to play a ballad every once in a while. You have to break it     up. You can't run on 140 beats per minute for 24 hours."
In     the early 1990s he sailed his small boat around the Pacific to     Tahiti, Marquesas, Bora Bora, Samoa and Hawaii. In 1991 he worked as     pd at a small island station, WVUV-Pago Pago. Bill has done many     films and his tv credits include the part of Dr. Forbes on the CBS     soap Young and the Restless.
In 1992 when Brian Roberts left "K-Earth," Bill moved into the overnight slot. He relates well to the nocturnal hours. "Overnights on KRTH     was the best job in radio!" 
Stevens, Bill: KUTE, 1973-79; KKGO,   1983-86; KRTH, 1991-2005. Bill left K-EARTH in early 2005.
Stevens, Bob: KNX, 1985-88. Unknown.
Stevens, Edwin J.: KFAC. Ed is deceased.
STEVENS,     Greg: KQLZ, 1992-93, pd.     Greg "Stevens" Straubinger arrived at "Pirate Radio" from KGMG     ("Rock 102")-
San Diego
and replaced Carey Curelop. He teamed with Steven O. Sellers and     they billed themselves "The Rude Boys." The "Guitar-Based Rock" format was beginning to see ratings success when Viacom bought the     station in the spring of 1993 and changed it. Greg aired the last     show on "Pirate Radio" with gm Bob Moore, and they     played Another One Bites the     Dust by Queen, The Traveling Wilburys' End of the Line and Guns N Roses' Welcome to the Jungle, which ironically kicked off the format in     1989.
Greg     was born in
in 1986 and a year later to KGMG.
In the spring   of 1993, Greg returned to
San Diego
and dropped his on-air work to program KIOZ. "My first interest in radio   came when my dad took away my night-light (age 6 or 7) but still allowed the   glow of the lighted radio dial. I pretended to sleep, but stayed up   listening for hours." Greg has a wife and teenage son and says he hopes to   retire in
San Diego
"in about 20 years from now if my luck hold out!" Since the mid-1990s, Gregg   has worked at KIOZ,
KQRC-Kansas
City
,   KEGL-Dallas, and WHTQ-Orlando.
In 2009, he went to Webster University in Orlando   to earn a master's degree in Marketing. He's currenty Associate Course   Director at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida
 
 
(Charlie Seraphin, Richard Saxton, and Johnny   Soul)
Stevens, Jay: KRLA, 1969-72; KROQ, 1972;     KIIS, 1972; KKDJ, 1973-75; KIIS, 1975-77; KGIL, 1978; KRLA,     1986-87; KMGX, 1990; KRLA, 1992-93; KRTH, 1993-2003. Jay retired in late     summer 2003.
Stevens, Jackie: KJLH, 1989-97. Unknown.
Stevens,   Jan: KFWB, 2005-09; KNX, 2010-17. Jan was an anchor at all-News KFWB until a format flip   in the fall of 2009. She is now an anchor at all-News KNX.
Stevens, Jeff: KNX, 1997-98; KABC, 1998-2001. Jeff broadcasts traffic     from Metro Networks and is a teacher.
Stevens, Julie: KJOI, 1989. Unknown.
STEVENS,     Kris Erik: KKDJ, 1973-74; KIQQ, 1974-75; KGBS, 1975; KIIS, 1975; KCBS, 1991-92.  Kris became a legendary success almost overnight as the youngest     Rock radio personality in Chicago, and was presented with Billboard Magazine’s ‘Radio Entertainment Award’ for his     exemplary on-air talent while at WLS-Chicago, a 50,000 watt     flamethrower with a signal that covered 46 states at night. During     his brief but celebrated radio career, he was consistently rated #1     on major market stations like CKLW-Detroit, WMYQ-Miami,     WCFL-Chicago, WQXI-Atlanta, and KKDJ and KIIS/fm.
Seeking a new challenge, he opened Kris Stevens Enterprises, an     LA-based
Broadcast Creative Services company specializing in advertising,     recording,
imaging, and syndicated radio programming. The firm began winning     awards for
their innovative Radio/TV advertising expertise and celebrity driven     radio specials
featuring the biggest movie and rock stars. Stevens conceptualized     and
hosted "Entertainment Coast to Coast" and won the Gold Medal Award     for "Best
Entertainment Radio Program" of the year which aired on the CBS     Radio Networks.
In 1990, Kris added another dimension and dream for many     broadcasters: station ownership. He bought his first radio station,     WFXD-Marquette, Michigan and ran it remotely from LA. Other career     highlights include hosting Drake/Chenault's "History of Rock-and-Roll. He credits his voiceover skills as the key ingredient to his career     success. Over the years his voice work has been heard on commercials     for Heineken,
Mercedes Benz, LifeLock, Wall Street Journal, Wells Fargo Bank,     Delta Airlines,
Pontiac, Starbucks, Orkin Man, AMC Theatres, US Marines, AT&T,     promos for all the major networks. Kris has voiced trailers for all     the major studios. For decades he has been the signature voice for     leading stations across the country.
As the host of Movie Tunes for 10+ years, he’s heard in thousands of movie
theatres across America prior to show time. Internationally, he     hosts various
Christmas Radio Specials for the Voice of America each holiday season.
His website is: kriserikstevens.com.
 
Stevens, Les: KKDJ, 1974. Unknown.
Stevens, Matt: KXTA,     1997-2003. The former     UCLA quarterback from 1983-86, Matt was part of the Bruin     broadcasting team. After a bout with testicular cancer, he     now broadcasts UCLA pre-game shows on XTRA Sports. Matt is general manager of the Los Verdes public     golf course.
Stevens and Grdnic: KWST, 1979-80. They have     a widely syndicated comedy service. They are based in St. Louis.
 
(Pete Smith, Greg Simms, Ryan Seacrest, Frosty Stilwell, and Jan Stevens)
Stevens, Richard: KRTH,     1989-91. Richard is working at Cumulus as a syndicated radio host, based in   Dallas.
STEVENS,     Shadoe: KHJ,     1970; KRLA,     1970-73, pd; KROQ,     1973-74; KMET,     1974-75; KROQ,     1976-80. The oldest of five kids, Shadoe was born Terry Ingstad in     1947 in Jamestown, North Dakota, and became a weekend deejay at age     11. He studied art at the University of Arizona and did on-camera     announcing at a Tucson tv station. Majoring in Commercial Art and     Radio/TV Journalism at the University of North Dakota and the     University of Arizona, he put himself through college working in     radio at KILO in Grand Forks, North Dakota, KQWB in Fargo, North     Dakota, and KIKX in Tucson. Even then, described as a workaholic and     overachiever, while going to school he worked full-time at the     stations and appeared in university plays on weekends. He worked at     WRKO-Boston before arriving in the Southland.
In addition to his activities at KRLA in 1972, Shadoe produced,     narrated and syndicated "The Greatest Hits of Rock 'n' Roll." By the     end of the year he had stepped down as pd and remained as a jock.
While at KMET     in 1974, he was the pd and midday jock; he left in 1975. Shadoe     described his station as being "for this age and beyond. Theater of     the mind. No formulas. We are satirical in nature." 
He was Billboard magazine's Personality   of the Year in 1975. He returned to KROQ to do weekends in 1976 with Sparkle   Plentee and was a programming and production consultant in 1978 through his   company Big Bucks.
In the early 1980s, Stevens was bigger than   life as the spokesperson Fred Rated, the bearded tv spokesman for the   Federated Group, selling discount stereo equipment. One of his most   celebrated tv spots for Federated stated, "Rabid frogs ate our warehouse, so   we're passing the savings on to you." Fred Rated then announced "RabidFrog   Bonanza Days" as hundreds of rubber frogs bounced around the tv screen.   After the first weekend of the campaign, sales increased 500%. In four   years, the group grew from 14 local stores to 78 superstores in 5 states.   The success of the Federated advertising campaign was extraordinary. It was   the first regional advertising campaign ever to have received a 2 page   spread in Time magazine.
This commercial success led to being the   announcer on Hollywood Squares in 1986. The producers experimented with putting Shadoe in a celebrity   square occasionally, and the appearances escalated, giving him national   exposure. In 1988, Shadoe took over the American Top 40 countdown show and   became only the second host of the program. Watermark spent $1 million to   promote Shadoe and by 1994, AT40 had been discontinued in the United States.
Shadoe became a regular on tv's Dave's World.   He was the first program director of "World Famous" KROQ/fm. He appeared on Midnight Special where he was a   correspondent, giving artist backgrounds and doing celebrity interviews with   major rock groups. He appeared in the movies: The   Kentucky Fried Movie, TRAXX, Mr. Saturday Night,   and the much revered Bucket of Blood for Roger Corman.
From   1995 to 2005, Shadoe hosted Rhythm Radio, which aired in 30 countries.   Another syndicated show he hosted, Top of the World, was on in 25 countries   from 2006-09. Since 2011, Shadoe does Mental Radio on SiriusXM.
Stevenson, Al: KTYM. Unknown.
Stevenson, Verne: KCBH; KMLA. Unknown.
(Jerry Sharell, Dr. Adele Scheele, Larry Santiago, and Curtis Sliwa)
Stewart, Bill: KMPC, 1951-59; KGIL, 1965-66;     KRHM, 1966 and 1969; KGIL, 1973-75. He was the     Bill of the KMPC jingle..."Ira, Johnny, Bill and     Dick!" In 1962, Bill was president of Albums, Inc. For     Armed Forces Radio he hosted "A Quarter Century of     Swing." In 1969, the 30-year veteran was honored     with a concert at the Palladium. For 20 years he did     in-flight airline music programming. Bill died in 1993 of     congestive heart failure.
Stewart, Guy: KDAY, 1974-75. Unknown.
Stewart, Hank: KBCA. Unknown.
Stewart,   Jill: KFI, 2002-03. Jill is an award-winning journalist and she was a   fill-in host at KFI. In early 2016, she left the LA Weekly where   she was managing editor to oversee and manage the Coalition to Preserve L.A.   The Coalition is pushing the slow-growth initiative for the November   ballot. 
Stewart, John: KKLA, 1988-93; KBRT, 1993. John hosted "Live From LA" on     Christian KKLA. He's now a lawyer in Orange County
Stewart,   J. Michael: KEZY, 1970; KKDJ, 1971-72; KYMS, 1973-74; KWIZ, 1985-87. Also   known as Jason Stone at KEZY, Stewart is a vacation consultant for the   Hilton, Marriott and Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas. He's also producing a   multi-media project for business and visitors to Vegas.
Stewart, Peg: KFI,     1997-2000 and 2001-07; KBIG,     2002-04. Peg is a weekend news anchor at KFI. She is lead instructor at the   radio broadcasting program at Fullerton College and pd at KBPK.
Stewart,     Ralph: KTWV, 1991-2003; KCBS, 2005-14; KCBS/KTWV, 2014-17. Ralph is operations   manager at JACK/fm and he was appointed program director at KTWV in June   2014.
 
(Dean Sander, Bob Starr, Daron Sutton,   Ralph Stewart, and Jack Silver)
Stewart, Rick: KEZY, 1976-78;   KODJ, 1989-91; Westwood One, 1991-93. Rick has a successful career in video   and film production in Southern California. 
Stewart, Suzanne: KLSX,     1989; KLOS. Unknown.
Stewart, Zan: KBCA, 1977-80; KCRW, 1980-82.     Zan was a longtime jazz writer for the LA Times and recently   retired from the New Jersey Star-Ledger.
Stiles, Sue: KFWB, 1978-2009.   Sue is a crew member at Trader Joe's.
Stilwell,   Frosty: KYSR, 1998-99; KLSX, 2000-2009; KABC, 2009-10; KFI, 2010-11; KLOS,   2016-17. Frosty   joined Frank Kramer and Heidi Hamilton at KLSX in the fall of 2000 until   2.20.09 when the FM Talk Station flipped to AMP RADIO. The trio joined KABC   on October 5, 2009 and left a year later. He went solo and did a weekend show at KFI until   late spring of 2011. He went on to co-host mornings at Star 101 (K101)-San   Francisco. In the early summer of 2013, Frosty joined San Francisco Talker,   KKSF (910AM) and left a year later. In September 2016, Frosty rejoined Frank   and Heidi at KLOS.
Stoltze, Frank: KLON; KPFK, 1992-2000; KPCC, 2000-11. Frank is a reporter at KPCC.
STONE, Bob: KGRB, 1965-67 and 1972-73; KWST,     1973-78; KGRB, 1978-89; KKGO, 1989-90; KGRB, 1990-93; KJQI/KOJY, 1993; KGRB, 1994-96. Bob, mostly associated with the Big   Band era of KGRB (West Covina), died October 19, 2011. He was 73. Bob had   stage four breast cancer. He was treated for that and a year later went to   the doctor for therapy treatment and they discovered the cancer had spread   to his lungs, kidney, liver and his heart.
While Bob             was in the U.S. Coast Guard School of             Electronics in Groton, Connecticut, his             commanding officer suggested that he had a             voice for radio. Once out of the service             in 1960, Bob secured his first radio job             in his native San Francisco at KHIP. In             the early 1960s he joined CBS Films in New             York. Bob returned to California in 1963.             He worked at KFMX-San Diego and KGUD-Santa             Barbara (which he left after the station             was burned to the ground) before starting             on KGRB. Between 1967 and 1972 he was at             KCRA-Sacramento. During his career he             remembered an unusual job: "I was the             voice of Kmart for many years." Bob's last             stop at KGRB was as transitional gm during             the sale of the station.
Stone, Bonnie: KBIG; KACD; KSCA, 1995-97.     Bonnie joined Fox Sports.
Stone, C.J.: KYSR, 1992-95. C.J. worked   at Dial-Global until late summer 2009.
STONE,     Cliffie: KFVD, 1940-44; KFI,     1950s; KPAS/KXLA, 1952-59; KFOX,     1959-65; KLAC, 1973-78. Country     Music Hall of Fame member, LA radio personality, singer,     songwriter, bandleader and producer of more than 14,000 tv     and radio shows, Cliffie died of heart failure on January 16,     1998. He was 80.
Cliffie was born Clifford Snyder in 1917, and his     primary success came from his association with the Country music     industry. Beginning at age 15 when he was discovered playing bass at     Burbank High School, he performed with Stu Hamblen for 14 years on tv and radio shows. Cliffie hosted "Hometown     Jamboree" for 10 years. The show started at the El Monte American     Legion stadium which was a launching pad for a multitude of singers     that included Johnny Cash, Eddie Arnold, Jim Reeves, Johnny Horton,     Tex Ritter and many more.
He produced over 14,000 tv and     radio shows during his 50-year career in the entertainment industry.     Cliffie played in the bands of Jan Garber, Gene Austin and Ken     Murray. He started Lariat Records with $300 and produced records for     Merle Travis, Stan Freberg and Mary Ford (before     Les Paul).
Cliffie managed Tennessee Ernie Ford for 20     years. In the early 1940s he was head of A & R for Belltone Records     and a music producer at Capitol Records, where he was involved with     Tex Ritter and Hank Williams. Near the end of his life, he was     president of Showdown Enterprises, which included book and song     publishing, along with a record label.
His awards include:     Pioneer Award, Academy of Country Music/1972; Country Music     Associations' Hall of Fame/1989; Hollywood Walk of Fame/1989; Walk     of Western Stars/1990; Nashville's Country Music Disc Jockey Hall of     Fame/1979. He wrote two successful books, Everything You Always     Wanted to Know About Songwriting and You Gotta Be Bad     Before You Can Be Good.
"I never planned on   being a manager or anything else that came my way. In many ways I wish I   were still playing the bass. You have to have a lot of luck in this   business. There are four critical essentials for success: attitude, luck,   sense of humor and a wife with lots of money." Cliffie’s wife Joan Carol   remembered: “I’ll never forget something he said when we were driving to his   daughter’s house. He looked out the window and said, ‘I just love life. I   just really love life.’”
STONE, Dave: KABC / KSPN,     2001-06. Dave was part of the     morning drive show at KABC and co-hosted afternoons at sister station, KSPN Sports. He died   at the end of 2013, at the age of 64. Dave was born in New York City and    moved to L.A. in the late 1950s.
“I became a sports junkie    immediately upon being taken out of kindergarten on April 18, 1958, by    my mom and Dodger fanatic dad so they could take me to the L.A. Coliseum    to see the Dodgers and Giants in the first major league game ever played    in Los Angeles. My dad grew up in Brooklyn and turned me into a baseball    fan in his image,” said Dave when interviewed for Los Angeles    Radio People.
Dave loved all sports. His first    job out of college in 1975 was as a public relations intern with the    Dodgers. “The job paid basically nothing, but working for the Dodgers?    I’d have done it for free.” Dave got into sports reporting with AP Radio    and UPI Audio. He would get sound bites from sporting events and phone    them in to the syndicates. From 1979 to 1986 Dave was the PA announcer    for the Harlem Globetrotters. In late 1989 Dave joined a Huntsville,    Alabama station as ops manager. “I gravitated from news and management    to talk while in Huntsville.”
It was there when Dave gave Sean Hannity his first high-profile job. In 1997,  Dave    worked afternoon drive at WGST-Atlanta and then “K-News” in the summer    of 1999.  At that time, he was doing political news/talk.
In the fall  of 2000, Joe McDonnell offered Dave the chance to return to sports radio via a  position at the new ESPN station, KSPN. Dave also did sports for the morning  team at then-Disney sister station KABC.  McDonnell said that Dave was “intelligent and well-prepared…One of the most passionate people I’ve ever  known.”
Joe offered this tribute on his Facebook page:
I first met Dave Stone in  the mid 70’s when we were both going for the job of operating the message board  at Dodger Stadium. Dave beat me out, but it became a moment when I met one of  the best friends I’ve ever had. Dave was also a radio reporter like myself, and  we would ride to almost every game together that didn’t involve the Dodgers. And  if there was a bigger Laker fan than me, it was Dave. We would spend hours  talking about West, Baylor, Chamberlain, Darrell Imhoff, Archie Clark. If he was  a Laker, we knew about him!  Dave then got a job as the traveling voice of the  Harlem Globetrotters, and if the phone rang at 3 in the morning it might be Dave  calling from Singapore to get the score of the Laker game. It was an amazing  friendship that continued until he passed away. I got home from dinner with  Elizabeth and some friends and received the horrible news. I didn’t even know he  was sick, which was typical of Dave. Didn’t want anyone to fuss over him, even  when he was batting a terminal disease. Dave was my first hire when I was  putting together ESPN/710 in 1999-2000 and he put his heart and soul into  everything he did there. God bless you Dave. You have no idea how much I’m going  to miss you. Happy trails. I love you. After several months of ill health, Dave  was diagnosed with ALS. 
Stone, Gary: KSCA/KLVE,     2000-10. Gary retired in late 2010.
Stone, Greg: KLOS, 1993-94. Unknown.
 
 
(Linda Salvin, Perry Simon, Gregg Steele, and Jill Stewart)
STONE, J.B.: KHJ, 1974-77; KGFJ, 1980-81, pd; KJLH, 1982-84, pd/gm. Born John Barry Pleasant on     September 12, 1947 in Bay City, Texas, he was the eighth child in a     family of three brothers and five sisters.     J.B. died September 19, 2015. He was 68.
J.B. arrived in the Southland from WHBQ-Memphis. Between KHJ     and KGFJ, he worked at KDIA-Oakland.
He grew up in Texas and     received a B.S. in Finance from California State University, Hayward     and an MBA from California State University, Dominguez Hills. He     served two tours of duty in Vietnam.
At KJLH he was upped to     vp/gm, and by the summer of 1984 he was out. In 1990 he became     director of Taxi Productions. In 1993, he was head of Stevie     Wonder's broadcast group. In 1995, J.B. was working at “Magic 97” in     Albany, Georgia.
One colleague wrote at the time of his     death, "J.B. was a TRUE radio whiz, a student of     the business. Supremely qualified to lead successfully as he did     after taking the reigns of KGFJ in the early 80s. J.B. was the last     program director to lead this small, community AM radio station, all     1000 watts, to phenomenal numbers while playing the music people     wanted to hear. He led us quietly, but he did with a firm, and     strategic hand." 
Stone, Jay: KNX/fm, 1971.     Jay,     born Jack Spaw, died in a one-car crash October 15, 2001, in Hawai'i Kai. "He was really a total radio nut," said long-time friend and radio consultant Jerry Clifton. "He worked long hours and his mind was in it all the time." Clifton said Stone was a jokester who would find a way to make any situation funny. "He would have probably made a joke out of this," Clifton said. Jay was program director at KNX/fm in the early 1970’s. He was killed     when his car flipped and hit a tree on Haha'ione Road. Police say speeding was involved and Stone was not wearing a seat belt. Clifton said Jay, whom he had known for 30 years, was moving to the Las Vegas area to be near his family and was probably late for his flight when the accident happened. "He was excited about moving near his son," Clifton said. "He was real positive about the move and in one of those places in his life where he was moving to a whole new mission. I talked to him the night before and said goodbye, but I didn't think that would be the last time I would ever talk with him." 
Jay and former KROQ dj Mike Evans went to high school together at North Torrance. “He did mornings at several stations including WNBC in New York,” emailed Mike. “The past 14 years, he’s been in Hawaii - we did mornings together at I-94 and KIKI. He was most recently fired from his gig doing mornings and station manager at the Oldies station, KGMZ, in Honolulu. His father was Jackie McCoy, a world famous boxing trainer [in boxing’s Hall of Fame] who had several championships, including Little Indian Red Lopez. Jay Stone's hero was Soupy Sales and Jerry Lewis and he acted like them both - a very funny guy,” Mike said. He was 55.
 
(Nicole Sandler, Sinbad, and Spinderella)
Stone, Jefferson: KEZY, 1976. Unknown.
Stone, Sebastian: KHJ, 1966. Sebastian     was Johnny Mitchell at KGB-San Diego before he joined "Boss Radio." He was at KFOG-San Francisco in 1976     and was pd of KFRC-San Francisco. Sebastian died of a     heart attack in 1987.
STOREY, Roy: KFI, 1972-73. Roy     spent one season as the Kings television/radio play-by-play man in     1972-73 with Dan Avey.     Roy died April 17, 2012, after a lengthy illness, in Desert     Hot Springs. He was 85. His call of “Shot On Goal!” reverberated in     the Bay Area, LA and San Diego for three decades.
Roy was in between the first play-by-play     announcer in Kings history, Jiggs McDonald, and the current     voice of the Kings, Bob Miller.
The former broadcaster for the California     Golden Seals began as the announcer for the Los Angeles Kings in     1972. He was a news anchor and sports director of KYA-San Francisco     and formerly "the voice" of the San Francisco 49ers alongside Bob     Fouts. When he left the Southland he joined the old World Hockey     Association Mariners in San Diego. The club terminated operations     there prior to the league merging with the NHL in 1979.
A native of Grand Rapids, Storey's long     career included stints behind the microphone for major league     baseball. He also served as the radio announcer for hockey games at     the 1960 Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley and was the voice of Saint     Mary’s College basketball for many years. In addition, he was a news     anchor at KYA in the 1970s.
Storey, Tom: KJOI, 1974-81; KOST, 1977;     KMPC, 1981-82; KZLA, 1981-87. Tom was an airborne traffic     reporter for KFWB and other Southern California stations.
Stradford, Mike: KKBT, 1990. Mike was pd at     KKBT. Unknown.
Strasser,   Teresa, KLSX, 2006-09; KABC, 2010-11. Teresa was part of the Adam Carolla morning show at   the FM Talk Station until a format flip to AMP RADIO on 2.20.09. She   co-hosted the morning KABC show with Peter Tilden until late summer of 2011.
 
STRATTON,   Gil: KNX, 1967-84 and 1986-97. The longtime sports broadcasting icon died October 11, 2008,     of heart failure.     He suffered a heart attack two months before his death and he seemed     to be making a recovery with active participation in physical     therapy. Gil was 86.
Born in Brooklyn, his early career was as an actor appearing on   Broadway with Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney and Elizabeth Taylor. In the   movies, Gil appeared with William Holden in Stalag 17 and with Marlon   Brandon in The Wild One. He was an umpire for baseball's Pacific   Coast League and coined the term, "I call 'em like I see 'em" and took the   line into his broadcast career at "The Big News" during the 60s and 70s on   KNXT/Channel 2. He was heard on KNX for decades. To horse racing fans, he   was a fixture at local tracks doing the announcing for the weekly horse   races that were broadcast on national tv. His ubiquitous sports broadcasting   career included the Los Angeles Rams with Bob Kelley.
 
KNBC/KFWB sports anchor Bill Seward sat with Gil during the   year before he died. Bill paid great respect to his mentor in this   interview: 
“When I was a kid I loved getting the mail from the mailman,” remembered   Gil. “I was named a junior and I would see something for Gil Stratton in the   mail and of course I opened it. My father said I was not Gil Stratton, I was   Gil Stratton, Jr. ‘And don’t open my mail.’ It was that way until I was   about to open on Broadway and they asked me how I wanted to be billed as Gil   Stratton or Gil Stratton, Jr. I said bill me as Gil Stratton, Jr. I did it   really just to show my father and then it just kinda stuck. Particularly   after World War II where I primarily made my living as a radio actor the   junior part would lead to what part I played on the show. They would read   all the parts and if there was a kid’s role and they saw junior they would   pick me and it stayed with me all that time.” 
Gil grew up in Brooklyn and Garden City, Long Island, spending his time   equally between the two cities. “My dad was in the printing ink business. He   manufactured printer’s ink.” Gil remembers his father receiving a holiday or   birthday card and spitting on his fingers and then rubbing the ink on the   card and invariably say, “cheap ink on this one.” 
A   long-time sports fan, in 1940, Gil saw 77 home games at Ebbets Field. “Somebody in our apartment had a pass and all it cost me was a ten-cent tax   plus a nickel each way on the subway. In 1941, the Dodgers won their first   pennant in 25 years. I saw the only game that the Dodgers won in the 41   World Series. They beat the Yankees 3 – 2 in Yankee Stadium in Game 2 on   October the 2nd,” said Gil. 
Acting came easy to Gil. He was in all the school plays. “It was something I   did easily and I guess fairly well because I was busy doing those things,” Gil reminisced. “I used to do summer stock in the Brighton Theatre, which is   right near the start of Coney Island. It was a legitimate theatre and a girl   I went to high school with had gone on to the American Academy. She was in Brother Rat and I went down to see her. I had spent a year in   military school, so I had the uniform on. Saw the matinee and went to dinner   with the whole cast and we can back and they thought it would great idea to   put me on stage because I was in uniform, just like they were on stage. That   was probably my real stage debut.” 
The following summer he was offered a role in Atlantic City for $5 a week.   His parents drove him down and he got a room in the YMCA for $2.75 a week. “I used to go out on the boardwalk and get a nickel’s worth of Jujubees to   kill my appetite.” 
Gil played on Broadway as one of the leads in Life With Father. Two   years later Gil had the lead in Best Foot Forward. “This led to a   contract with MGM and I headed West, young man. World War II had started and   when I got there I had to go to my draft board because we were going out of   town for a production in Chicago and you couldn’t leave the state without   going to the draft board. This was August and I asked what they thought and   they said I would be carrying a gun by the first of October.” (Gil in Girl   Crazy)Standing in front of the draft board building with some other guys,   Gil was asked if he knew about the Air Cadets. “It is the Air Force and if   you could qualify for it for bombardiers and things like that and pass the   written and physical there is no place to put the guys right now so you can   stay out longer, so that’s why I did it. I opened at the Airliner Theatre in   Chicago and after passing the exams, they asked if they could swear me in on   stage after a matinee. A Major came down and swore me in. I got the call the   following March but we hadn’t finished filming yet and I got a deferment   until July, so it was almost a year from the time I signed up before I went   in.” 
“I ended up flying in B-17s and one night we were on a night training   navigation mission over Little Rock, Arkansas when they lost two engines on   the right side and we were losing altitude over the Ozarks Mountains and the   pilot said, ‘Okay, boys, prepare to bail out.’ I snapped on my parachute and   I was the first one out. It was kinda like the big hill on a big roller   coaster. I jumped, pulled the handle on the rip chord, and nothing happened.   I later learned there was a three-second delay between pulling the handle   and the parachute opening. It feels like a lot more than three seconds when   you’re looking at it and nothing is happening.” 
Gil was discharged from the Air Force on October 5, 1945. “The thing you   wanted more than anything else was a civilian suit. The first job I got was   in Chicago. The William Morris Agency was my agency at the time and they   thought of me primarily as a Broadway actor. I got involved in a radio show   and shortly after joining them they moved it to the West Coast. I really   wanted to come back to Hollywood any way I could and that worked out   great.” 
From 1946 to 1954, Gil made his living primarily as a radio actor. “I was on   Lux Radio Theatre 29 times. Meet Corliss Archer, the Life of Riley and on   and on. I was Margie’s boyfriend on My Little Margie with Gale Storm and   Charlie Farrell. I was a regular on Junior Miss and then we did a television   show called, That’s My Boy, which had been a movie with Martin & Lewis. I   played the Jerry Lewis part. Everything was fine for the first 13 weeks and   then we went up against George Gobel. After 13 more weeks nobody ever heard   of us again.” 
Beginning in 1954 and up until the late 1990s, Gil fulfilled the final third   of an incredible three-career life. “I was a sports announcer, mostly at   CBS,” recalled Gil. He was doing My Little Margie and went to visit his   friend Tom Harmon who anchored a coupled of the tv sportscasts. Tom   mentioned that he was going to be leaving the late news at Channel 2. His   wife had put her foot down and told Tom that he had to choose between the   two newscasts. I told him that’s what I wanted to do since I was eight years   old. He told about an audition and when I showed up about half of the guys   on the Rams team were auditioning along with most of the sports writers in   town. I got the job.” 
Busy with his radio acting, Gil was also a professional baseball umpire for   ten years beginning in 1947. “I spent five years in Class C baseball; so I   did pay my dues. I finally ended up in the Pacific Coast League. I could   have done that as a career.” 
When Gil joined KNXT/Channel 2 the tv news had revolving anchors. “We called   them the Bum of the Week. The first one was a cowboy actor and he couldn’t   even pronounce President Roosevelt, so he was on his way out. Even Bill   Stout was an anchor for awhile and he hated it. It was kind of different and   it finally shook down around 1960 with The Big News. It became the all-time   biggest television news shows in history. We used to get 21 – 23 ratings on   that show.” 
About five years after joining KNXT/Channel 2, he started doing sports   broadcasting on KNX. “It happened when George Nicholaw took   over as general manager. He was smart enough to recognize the pull and   success of The Big News and its people. He proceeded to put all of   us from tv on radio. Bill Keene and I used to the sports and weather   together and we kind of kidded each other as we went along. More people came   up to us and said they enjoyed what we did on radio, more so than on   television.” 
Did Gil enjoy radio or tv more? “Television was meant for me,” Gil responded   without pausing. “It was that kind of medium. Having been an actor I was   loose in front of the camera. I don’t mean that as conceit, it is just kind   of like I am. On the radio you are reading everything word for word. When I   was a radio actor it was the best job I ever had. I can’t think of anything   easier. That was the best job we ever had. The Lux Radio Theatre paid $133.   That was scale. That was a lot of money back in those days.” 
The sports scene in L.A. helped glorify the period for Gil’s reporting. “Remember John McKay was winning the college football championships at USC.   John Wooden was winning the college basketball championships at UCLA. The   Lakers were winning. The Dodgers were winning. There were 50,000 people on a   Saturday afternoon at Santa Anita. This was the sports capital of the world,   without a doubt. And it is no longer.” 
Gil carries a money clip with a Rams helmet embedded on it, which reminds   him of a special time when he was part of the Rams broadcasts. “The Rams   were an institution. They came out here from Cleveland in 1946. It was a big   deal. We had two of the greatest quarterbacks in football – Bob Waterfield   and Van Brocklin. Other players like Elroy Hirsch on the end. Ollie Matson   came later. He was in a deal for 11 men. There was also Tank Younger and Jon   Arnett. It was wonderful. I can remember 100,000 people in the Coliseum for   the Chicago Bears games. It was a great rivalry. Everyone was a fan. I was   fortunate to be their play-by-play on television for a few years and I   certainly enjoyed it.” 
For 20 years Gil hosted the Saturday broadcasts that originated at great   race tracks in the West. “It was a very popular show on the West Coast,” said Gil. “We covered races from Canada to Mexico and went as far East as   the Rockies. It was on the Pacific Coast Network, which consisted of 34 tv   stations. I don’t think there was a bar or a country club or any place where   people gathered that they didn’t watch that show. When I would go to one of   these other markets they treated me like Frank Sinatra had just come in.   What was strange was that I didn’t like horse races. I never did like it and   I’m not a gambler. I was lucky to have a partner who really knew everything.   He was a real race tracker. I studied so hard to be prepared for that show   and people really got the impression that I knew what the hell I was talking   about and that was not true.” 
“I broke my wrist when breaking a horse out of the gate, which resulted in   wearing a cast. I would only let jockeys sign the cast. I turned down all   the baseball or football players. Only jockeys could sign it. I think that   had something to do with the popularity of the show because I was so   accepted by the jockey colony. My size also worked for me because they were   used to six foot two guys who were leaning down. I could look eye to eye   with most of the jockeys. Consequently I had very good rapport with them. I   enjoyed them but I can’t say I enjoyed going out to the track. I looked   forward to it every week because I got paid well.” 
Gil remembers the times that he would be walking around the track area and   fans would come up to him asking for a tip on a winning horse. He would ask   which race. They would say the fourth race. He would tell them horse #4   looked good, or if it was the sixth race, he would say the number six horse.   If the horse won the race they thought he was a genius. If the horse lost,   they just wouldn’t ever ask again. “I didn’t know one horse from another,” confessed Gil. 
In 1953, Gil had a major role in Billy Wilder’s Stalag 17 starring   William Holden and The Wild One with Marlon Brando, two of the most   successful films of the 50s. “Stalag 17 was like being in the   prison camp. It really was. The director’s assistant acted like a prison   sergeant and he would yell at us to get our asses on the set. After a few   weeks on the set it really did feel like we were in the service because you   are in uniforms all day long.”
Gil revealed that he partied hard during much of his incredible career. “I   was part of it all for a long time and finally I joined AA and that seemed   to get me straightened out and from there on there were no problems.” 
Stratton, Ric: KUCI, 1978-79; KOCM, 1980.     Ric is vp/sales at Southland Communications in Van Nuys.
Straw, Tom: KMPC, 1981-82. Tom has moved     into television. He received two Emmy nominations for Night     Court and he was executive producer on Dave's World. He's   currently involved with the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.
(Neil     Saavedra, Shirley     Strawberry, Tony Scott, and Ted Sobel)
Strawberry,     Shirley: KKBT, 1990-2005; KDAY, 2006-09; KJLH, 2009-17. Shirley was one of the "Angels" on the     Steve Harvey morning show. She left the station on May 20, 2005, when Harvey   exited the station. She rejoined Harvey when his syndicated show was picked   up by KDAY.
Street, Commander Chuck: KIIS,     1983-2012.     Chuck has been the pilot for KIIS Yellow Thunder traffic     helicopter for over 20 years. He got his job by flying his     helicopter past the 11th floor Hollywood studios while Rick     Dees was on the air. Sitting next to Chuck was a female     companion - a topless female companion. His reports also air on the KTLA/Channel   5 Morning News.
Street, Dusty: KWST, 1977; KLOS, 1978; KROQ,     1979-86; KMET, 1986-87; KROQ, 1987-89; KLSX, 1990-94. Dusty is working for   Sirius out of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. In 2015, she was   inducted into the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame.
STREIT, Steve: KBIG, 1997-99.   Steve was program director at KBIG until late October 1999. He is founder of     Green Dot, a pre-paid credit card business, based in the Southland.
The former pd of WASH/WGAY-Washington,     DC, WMGF/WJRR-Orlando, programmed three stations in West Palm Beach     before joining KBIG. He brought to KBIG his role as a strong     turnaround executive at numerous major market adult contemporary     stations including WMGF-Orlando, K101-San Francisco and     WASH-Washington, DC, which was nominated for The Marconi Award's AC     Station of the Year and WGAY in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining     Chancellor, he was the group pd for Paxson Broadcasting in Orlando.
Strobel III, John W.: KRLA, 1960; KMPC; KNX, 1969-75. John retired from broadcasting in     1987. After that he produced 27 educational film strips for Walt Disney   Educational Materials Company and produced and filmed a number of industrial   documentaries. He's completed a novel, Winds of Horror.
STRODE, Tollie: KBCA, 1962-72; KAJZ. Tollie was     born and raised in Birmingham. Growing up, he always had an interest     in music and entertainment, according to his son, Tollie, Jr. 
After service in the Army in the early 50s, he returned to     Birmingham and opened a night club, the Down Beat. He later moved to     Los Angeles, following his older brothers.  Eventually, he married     his hometown sweetheart, Lillian. They established a family and     remained in LA until his death.   
Tollie brought an     East Coast flavor to his music presentation on Jazz KBCA. Known as a     jazz purist and for his many contributions that helped make jazz     a strong genre and market force in the LA scene, with sayings such     as "Straight Ahead, Slow Traffic To The Right." 
After radio,     Tollie turned his attention to real estate. 
He lost his     battle with cancer on January 18, 2001. He was 71.
Stroka,   Mike: KPPC, 1964-66. The former general manager of the underground station has passed away.
Stryker,   Ted: KYSR, 1996-98; KROQ, 1998-2009; KLSX/KAMP, 2009-10; KROQ, 2010-17. Stryker   hosts afternoon drive at KROQ. He was the dj on The Ellen Show for one season.
Styble,   Bryan: KIEV, 1989-90. Bryan is a long-time talk show host in Seattle. He now   write a media blog.
Styles,   Dave: KIIS, 2003-14; KBIG, 2014-15. From Northwest radio, Dave worked the all-night shift at KIIS/fm,   as well as weekends. In early 2014, he joined MY/fm for afternoon drive.
Stuart, Linda: Linda broadcasts traffic on KABC weekends via Metro     Traffic. During the     week she does fill-in     news and traffic shifts for KABC, KPLS, KOLA, KJLH, and the Highway Stations     in Barstow.
Stuart, Rick: KROQ; KNAC, 1986. Rick   is working at KFOX iin San Francisco/San Jose.
Sturgeon, Wina: KFWB. Wina is a sports     reporter for the Salt Lake Tribune.
Sudock, Mark: KLON, 1970-84. Mark   is a     video production editor at KTTV/Fox 11.
Suits,   Bryan: KFI, 2008-13; KABC, 2013-15; KFI, 2015-17. In early 2010 he returned to his home in Seattle and continued with a   weekend show on KFI until moving to KABC in late 2013. Bryan left KABC in   early 2015. He has a weekend show at KFI.
 
(Jill Schary, Mark Savan, Art Schreiber, Charlie Sergis, and Gary Spears)
Sullivan,   Alex: KNX, 1968-2004. Alex, a graduate of Harvard University, retired from   radio in the Fall of 2004.
Sullivan, Bill "Soup": KNAC, 1983. Bill worked   evenings at "Rock 'n Rhythm" KNAC.
Sullivan, Chuck: KFOX, 1969-71; KLAC, 1971-80; KREL,     1971-72. Chuck was living and     working in Hot Springs, Arkansas. He died in 1993.
Sullivan, G. Michael: KEZY, 1977-80; KWIZ,     1980-87. Michael is the manager of the Monterey County Fair.
Sullivan, Joe: SEE Joe Collins
Sullivan, Kathleen: KFWB, 1999-2000.     Kathleen mysteriously walked out on her morning drive     co-anchoring job at all-News KFWB in April 2000 and never     returned. In 1984, Sullivan became the first woman to anchor   a telecast of the Olympic Games. She sits on the SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and   Mental Health Administration) Advisory Council, to which she was appointed   by the White House in January 2003. Kathleen live in Rancho Mirage.
Sullivan, Paul: KNAC, 1976-78. Paul is     executive vp for Global Media based in Vancouver, BC.
Sullivan, Pete: KZLA, 1980. Unknown.
Sullivan, Tim: KLAC; KHJ, 1973-79;     KWST/KMGG, 1981-82. Tim is owner of KCAL/KOLA in the Inland Empire.
Summer:   KCAL, 2006-07; KYSR, 2007. SEE Summer James
Summers,   Bob: KBCA, 1973. Unknown.
Summers, John: KWOW, 1983; KWDJ, 1983-84; KDIG, 1984-87; KBON,     1986-90; KFRG, 1993-94; KLAC, 1999-2001; KHTS, 2006-09. John was morning host at KHTS-Santa Clarita   until early 2009. John is now news director for Topeka's News Talk   580 WIBW, WIBW/fm, Kansas Information Network, Kansas Agriculture Network,   and WIBWNewsNow.com.
Summers, Karen: KOST/KFI, 1984. Karen lives     in Ventura.
Summers,   Nick: KTWV, 2004-05. Nick is production manager at RM Broadcasting, Palm   Springs.
(Karl Southcott,   Tony Sandoval, Paul Sakrison, and Lily Sheen)
Summers, Scott: KWST, 1981.     Scott arrived in the Southland from KFRC-San Francisco. In     the 1990s he worked at Shadow Traffic services. He died in     January 1995 of complications resulting from a kidney     transplant.
Sumner, Kevin: KYMS, 1995. Unknown.
Sunderland, Paul: KLAC,     2002-05. Paul was the LA Lakers play-by-play     announcer after Chick Hearn died. He got his start doing   pro beach volleyball in the mid-1980s. He has done tennis for Fox Sports   Net.
Sure,   Al B: KHHT, 2007-09. The Grammy-nominee r&b singer (five number one r&b   hits) joined HOT 92.3 in the summer of 2007 and left in the spring of 2009   following a Clear Channel downsizing.
Suter,   Gianna: Gianna is an update anchor for Fox Sports Radio, traffic reporter   for Metro Networks, and co-host of Threeway Talk syndicated on CRN.
Sutton, Daron: KLAC, 2000-01. The son of     Major League Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Don Sutton, Daron is now part of     the baseball broadcast team in Milwaukee.
Sutton, Ralph: KGFJ, 1984-86. Ralph is with     the Urban League of Southern California.
Sutton, Robert P.: KNX, 1953-68. Born in     Ogden, Bob started out as a vaudeville writer at the age of     7, performing with his parents. He later wrote for radio     comedy shows. After the navy, he worked at WCCO-Minneapolis     before joining KNX as pd in 1953. In 1961 Robert was named     gm. Following his retirement in 1968 he turned to sculpting     and also built a yacht in which he cruised the world. Robert     died April 18, 1996, at the age of 87.
Svedja, Jim: KNX; KUSC,     1978-2012. Jim has a     classical music show at KUSC and reviews films for KNX.
 
(Soul Assassins, Mark Sheldon, G. Michael     Sullivan, and Jen Sweeney) 
SWANEY, John: KFWB, 1968-78; KGIL, 1987-89. John anchored at KFWB from "day one" of the all-News format until he began the full-time practice     of law ten years later. John graduated from Loyola Law School     in 1977 and joined the law firm of Girardi, Keese and Crane     in downtown L.A. For the next eight years, he was an active     trial layer, specializing in plaintiffs medical     malpractice and products liability cases.
In 1986, John left     the practice of law to return to broadcasting and becoming     the host of "The Breakfast Edition" on KGIL and     stayed until the station was sold in 1993. John was praised     as a first-rate newsman and a friendly, enjoyable, decent     person to know and work with. KFWB morning co-anchor Dan Avey had high praise for John: "John Swaney may have     been the smartest, most insightful man I ever knew. It was a     treat to work with him."
John died October 2, 1999, at     the age of 57. A few months before his death, there was dreadful sight that     flickered on our tv screens of an apartment building being     dismantled in order to extract an 800-pound man. Turned out it was     John Swaney. 
"Somebody has to care when somebody dies,” said K-EARTH morning man at the   time, Charlie Van Dyke. “I did not know about the tragedy of his weight gain   until reading it in LARadio.com. I hadn't seen him since 1964. My first   meeting with John was in Dallas at KVIL, before it was the heritage station   that it is today. It was a weekend and summer job for me. I was the dj. John   was the newsman. We didn't agree about most things - radio, politics, the   condition or future of the world. In fact, we actually had some friction   when we worked the same shift. One day he said to me going into the 5 p.m.   news on Sunday, ‘Hey, I need some extra time on the news.’ I, a high school   junior eager to stay on format replied, ‘For what?’ He said, ‘Just give me   the time, I'll take the heat.’”
Van Dyke continued: “He then personally chose to   read a Kennedy funeral speech...now famous...‘So, she took the ring from her   finger and placed it in his hand.’ [It had just cleared AP. John was moved   and determined to share the emotion.] Let me tell you, he shared it. KVIL,   in those days was a pathetic 1,000-watt daytimer that drug along a 119, 000   watt FM in simulcast. He read it; he made it ‘feel.’ John was always a   mystery to me. I knew in an instant of meeting him that there was a great   mind present in a complex personality. I wished, as a high school junior,   that I could have been smart enough to debate him...because he loved that so   much. I never made that happen.
Former KFWB newsman Andy Park remembered: "John Swaney had a voice that was in a class with Alexander   Scourby, David McCullough, and Chet Huntley. In addition, he was a   first-rate newsman and a friendly, enjoyable, decent person to know and with   whom to work. His decision to become a lawyer late in life was typical of   John's ability to accomplish what he wanted. His illness was a long-time   distress to his many friends. His agony was in the breech of the personal   privacy he so valued. He will be missed and he will be remembered by many of   us who valued his friendship."
Sway: KKBT, 1996-2001. Sway hosts a Saturday     night hip-hop show with King Tech at "the Beat."
Sweeney, Dave: KEZY, 1965-69; KGBS, 1969;     KBBQ; KFOX, 1972-76; KALI, 1996-2006. Dave is vp of the West     Coast for the owners of KALI.
Sweeney, Jen: KLYY, 1999; KACD, 2000. Jen     worked weekends at KACD until the station was sold and     changed format to Spanish in late summer of 2000.
Swenson, Steve: KFWB, 1980-85. Steve is     general manager at WCBS-New York.
 
(Vin Scully, Dr. Tommy Smith, Bill Seward, Harry Shearer, and Bryan Suits)
SYMONDS, Dave: KEZY,     1982-84. David reports from London for various U.S. tv     outlets, including the old McNeil/Lehrer Report.
He was     born in Oxford, England, on June 28, 1943 and was among the original     lineup of BBC Radio 1 in 1967 and one of the original Capital Radio     djs. After college in Oxford, Dave embarked on acting career in New     Zealand.  
In 1995, Symonds moved to Cyprus and set up his     own radio station.