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After many years in local programming, Guy became a well-respected radio consultant.

After nine years as iHeartMedia senior vp of programming/research & Strategy, in early 2019, he announced his semi-retirement. He will continue as a senior advisor. Guy founded Zapoleon Media Strategies in 1992 where he and his partners were Top 40 and AC Consultants of the Year for ten years running. He launched great radio stations like WKTU-New York and worked with stations in the U.S. and worldwide like 2DayFM Australia, NRJ Paris and 104.6 RTL Berlin.

Born in Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, Victor was raised in Northern California. He has worked in the entertainment industry as a radio host, musical artist/producer and an actor. Radio has taken Victor throughout many states like Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, but for the most part of his career, he has been in California. From over half a dozen stations in San Francisco, down the central coast and on to hosting a morning show for four years in Los Angeles Victor is back home in the Bay Area where he plans to have another couple of decades added to his resume. Victor also enjoyed working as the sideline reporter for the Oakland Raiders Spanish Broadcast for five years and playing video games as a hobby. Although the music, producing and acting all run in his DNA, his true love is radio and continues to challenge himself to do more every day. In 2014, Victor started his new chapter in radio, talking sports on a San Francisco sports station on the weekends. Taking a liking to talk radio, in 2017 he made the move to KCBS Radio in San Francisco as a Traffic Reporter.​ Victor joined HOT 92.3/fm mornings in mid-August of 2007 and left in the spring of 2011.

Larry died October 13, 2011. He was 73. Larry succumbed to an aggressive cancer that prevents the body from making healthy blood cells.

Born in Armenia, Larry was 14 when he emigrated to the United States with his mother and his sister, Rima. He graduated from Glendale Community College and earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from UCLA. He also also was a heavyweight boxer, winning 13 bouts. He had been a resident of the City of Glendale for close to 50 years, and an active member of Glendale Civic Affairs for 40 years. His knowledge of politics and hands on experience is most impressive.

Larry studied at UCLA, where he majored in political science. He has served as mayor of Glendale four times; served as chairman of the MTA; served as a member of the Glendale City Council; served as chairman of the State Regional Water Quality Control Board; and has held Membership or chair positions for at least 50 other organizations or political branches.

Karen was a reporter at all-News KNX until early fall of 2009. She is now a voiceover artist. A graduate of USC in 1998 with dual degrees in Broadcast Journalism and International Relations, before KNX she worked for Scripps Network.

Since late 2015, Karen has served as Chief of the Communications Section/Training & Communications Specialist for the Executive Support Division of the Los Angeles County Fire Department.

Jeanne joined the launch of the new sports format at KFWB, The Beast 980 on September 22, 2014. She worked morning drive with LA Times’ Bill Plaschke until mid-February 2016 when KFWB was sold. She is now with Fox Sports West.

She started her broadcasting career during her college days doing metro traffic reports and then hosting a talk show on KCEO-AM in San Diego. Jeanne spent the early part of her career in San Diego. She co-hosted the San Diego Padre’s pre-game show for Prime Sports West. She joined Fox Sports in 1996 as part of the original broadcast team anchoring the newly formed Fox Sports Net’s NATIONAL SPORTS REPORT.

Born in Cincinnati and raised in New Jersey, Zelasko graduated from San Diego State University with a degree in journalism and a minor in political science. Jeanne is married to LA tv broadcaster Curt Sandoval.

Zack was a groupie when KPPC first went on the air in 1967.

Original all-night KPPC jock Bob Shayne remembered him as “this kid with long, dark floppy hair who wanted to be a disc jockey.” He also worked the all-night shift at “the Mighty Met” and was an engineer. Zack now lives in New Mexico.

Born in Lima, Ohio, Ted interned at KMEN while he was going to high school in San Bernardino and later became md and utility jock in 1971 and 1972. “I decided on a career in radio after watching my ‘idols’ on KMEN. As luck would have it, the radio station was located directly behind the high school. Every day, on my way home, I would watch the masters at work, spinning their stories and playing the tunes. These were my mentors, to whom I owe so much respect and appreciation. It’s mind boggling when you realize the talent that came out of one little AM station in San Bernardino.”

In the early 1980s Ted worked mostly mornings in San Diego at “91X,” “The Mighty 690,” KGB and KIFM. Prior to San Diego he was pd and morning drive at KLAV-Las Vegas. Ted started at KMGG in 1982 and stayed briefly until joining KOST. In the mid-80s, Ted recorded afternoon drive at KOLA in the Inland Empire.

For several years, he did the late evening program on “the Coast” and was top rated with double digits. He has appeared in tv and motion pictures since 1984. Ted has been named to Who’s Who in Entertainment and Who’s Who in the West. He lives in Orange County.

He did fill-in at KOST until early 2020 when there was another major downsizing. After 51 great years, Ted officially retired.

Ed has been a premier newsman in Southern California for close to three decades. He was part of the morning team with “Sweet Dick” Whittington at KGIL and Lohman and Barkley at KFI.

Ed was born in Indiana and received a bachelor of science degree in broadcast journalism from Indiana University. During his Army days he was a reporter for The American Forces Network while stationed in Berlin. When he left the Army he worked as a writer for the Associated Press in Milwaukee.

His first job in the Southland was at KLAC when it was L.A.’s first all-Talk station. Joe Pyne did mornings while Bob Grant worked afternoons and Mort Sahl did the evenings. “It was a great station.”

After radio, he joined the Ventura County Correction Services Agency working with juvenile offenders.

Ed is now retired, living in Yerington, Nevada, just southeast of Reno. “I’m spliting time between homes in Nevada and South Carolina. Lots of hiking, hunting, fishing and kicking over rocks searching for gold.”

Larry has an active voiceover career. Most recently, he was the Director of IT/MIS for the composer Hans Zimmer for almost 8 years.

He was ‘Truck Rodgers’ in the early 90s on KHTZ (K-Hits) for Metro Traffic. “Thanks to Dan Avey for the name,” emailed Larry. “I was also ‘Commander Tracy’ on KACE. Thanks Lawrence Tanter for the very last minute name. My next job was disaster reporter for KABC [quakes, fires, you name it], which included getting into and covering the whole OJ trial for Bob K while at KABC/KMPC. After my KABC stint, I went back into the techie side and became the director of MIS/IT for Oscar winning composer Hans Zimmer and his music campus factory in Santa Monica and stayed there from 1998-2006.”

“Now, I’m back into voiceovers and ready to give Don LaFontaine a run for his limo…. :-)”

The veteran sports columnist and one of the most controversial and opionated sports writers in Los Angeles history, died, October 30, 1991 at 86 of acute blood infection. He was the youngest sport editor ever in Los Angeles, taking over the position at the Los Angeles Express when he was 19. He had started at the paper as a copy boy at 16.

Dave was a news anchor/reporter at KNXNewsradio for 25 years, until his retirement in 2006. Dave died July 30, 2018, following a short, but tough battle with liver cancer. He was 73.

Except for a brief stint in Detroit, since 1981 Dave has been an anchorman/reporter at “KNXNewsradio.” Born November 22, 1944, in Lebanon, Missouri, Dave’s father was a First Sergeant in the Army, stationed at nearby Ft. Leonard Wood. “My parents were both born and raised in Connecticut and my mother lived in Missouri only for a short time to be near my father while waiting for me to be born. My father took two weeks of leave, timed it to begin the day I was born so he could bond with me and help change diapers.”

Hours after Dave was born, his father was shipped out to Europe. “The first five years of my life were spent in Milford, Connecticut, 1949 to ’55 in Somerset Pennsylvania, just a few miles from where the United Airlines plane crashed on 9/11, suburban Cleveland [the ‘Happy Days’] and Phoenix from 1961 to 1981.”

Dave majored in broadcasting in college and began his commercial broadcasting career in 1969. “I can’t remember a time in my life that I didn’t want to be on the radio, but I really got the ‘bug’ one rainy summer afternoon in Cleveland in the late ’50s when I ‘played radio’ with a neighborhood electronic genius who built a radio station in his basement. We tape recorded our pretend rock ‘n roll radio show with ‘your boy D.Z. on K-R-A-P’ and played it through a miniature transmitter my engineer friend built. What a thrill, I was on the radio! Imagine our surprise when we read in the newspaper the next morning that the FCC was looking for a pirate radio station that had appeared mysteriously, knocking off the air a major Cleveland radio station. When we read that the penalties for such a federal crime were multiple years in jail and thousands of dollars in fines, we decided to find safer ways to spend our rainy summer afternoons.”

His radio news broadcasting career began in 1969 in Phoenix at KOY-AM, moving on to KPHO-AM and eventually KTAR-AM where he was director of news and programming from 1978-81.

Dave was in Vietnam for two years, where he served as a corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He married his college sweetheart, Carolynn Bauer. Dave won 7 Golden Mikes, including three consecutive Best Newscast awards. From the L.A. Press Club he received 12 first-place awards in various categories, including best newscast.

He served as a corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps between 1964 and 1967 and was in Vietnam for two years.