Lots of greats have called Los Angeles home over the years. Who would you consider the best of all time in The City Of Angels? Name/Call Letters/Years The only rule....no syndicated shows piped in from other places.
Vin Scully is Number 1. Everyone else is playing for runner-up.
Robert W,Charlie Tuna,Don Steele and Gary Owens.
Vin Scully certainly gets the longevity award and also is tops talent-wise in his field, sportscasting. But who today remembers Andy Mansfield, who with his wife Virginia used his encyclopedic music knowledge not only on KFI but the worldwide armed forces network? He was the Vin Scully of pre-rock and roll radio and his "Turn Back the Clock" program (utilizing his own music library augmented by that of KFI) featured music that stretched beck to the depression era. And then of course there was the comedy team of Lohman and Barkley before talk radio took over KFI. Not to mention the Ladies Day program hosted by a team headed by the venerable Dave Shaw (who later moved ion to KFAC after Cox bought KFI). All of these broadcasters were AM stalwarts fifty years ago, but their contributions deserve to be remembered..
And I am glad you brought these broadcasters to our attention. Radio does a terrible job of remembering its past.
I listened to Lohman and Barkely when I was a kid and they were indeed very funny, although I just considered them to be the KFI morning guys, just like everyone else has a morning show. At that time I didn't really know of or appreciate their longevity. The only difference to me was that they were on the best signal in town, meaning you could literally hear them all over Southern California and most of central California, even during the day. The rest of the names you mentioned I have heard of, but have never heard any sample of their work.
Lots of greats have called Los Angeles home over the years. Who would you consider the best of all time in The City Of Angels? Name/Call Letters/Years The only rule....no syndicated shows piped in from other places.
No mention of Jaime Jarrín? I hate anything to do with Baseball yet with the Dodgers since 1959, that is impressive if this was a longevity thread.
Jim Healy. KMPC 1984-94.
(I'm sure he was just a great on his other stations before the 80s, but I never heard his stuff from that era.)
I remember Healy from the early 70s - on KLAC when it was a country station.
"Hoowwww do you do, I'm Jim Healy on KLAC, Los Angeles - brought to you by your Southern California Datsun dealer. NObody demands MORE from a Datsun than DATSUN! Dateline: Los Angeles..."