As KFWB 980s era as a news station comes to an end this weekend, I would like to pay homage. Growing up in 1970s central Orange County, that was the station I listened to for news. Everyone I knew preferred KFWB to KNX for all news. Group W Westinghouse you give us 22 minutes well give you the world and all that. I wound up playing a microscopically small part in the 40 years of KFWB. I was hired by Shadow Broadcasting and through them I was able to do fill in weekend sports reports there between 1998 and 2000. I am very proud of that. When CBS bought KFWB, and especially when they moved in next door to each other, literally, on Wilshire - I figured KFWBs days as an all news op were numbered. As I heard it, CBS was forced to sell to something called KFWB Asset Trust. Anyway fast forward to now. On Monday they become the fourth sports station in the LA metro. I know that they will have some local, but you will be getting a lot of the relatively new CBS Sports Radio network. Weve been carrying that 24/7 since its birth in Jan 13 up here in Ventura. Meaning Jim Rome (already heard on 1090s booming signal out of Baja). Then the likes of Doug Gottlieb, and at night the gutteral hard for me to listen to Scott Ferrall. I assume they will keep the Clippers. Will they make a play to get the Dodgers back from 570? Does LA need another sports talk station? Again I am proud to have been even a small part of such a heritage radio station.
Posted on: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 22:48:06 +0000
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