Results tagged “jimrome”

Late night radio isn't typically where you'll find an energetic sportstalker -- much less one who would easily reference Brett Favre's retirement to the ‘80s movie “Can’t Buy Me Love.” ESPN radio host Jason Smith does that five nights a week (Sunday through Thursday.) Heard locally on 710AM, from 10:00 at night to 2:00, All Night with Jason Smith is high quality radio at an hour where most station's broadcast as though their audience is half-dead.

I like AM radio. I like sports. So when you combine the two forces and create sports talk radio, I am in heaven. Last October Mancow mania finally faded into oblivion, so when KLAC AM 570 teamed up Fred Roggin, Tracy Simers, and L.A. Times Sports Columnist T.J. Simers for the much coveted 6-9am time slot before The Jim Rome Show , I gave it a chance. It couldn't get any worse, right? Roggin...

Is LA really that tough of a market that no one can stand out as the perfect fit in morning radio? Is it really that hard to entertain the infamous Los Angeles morning commute? With billboards in LA proclaiming him The King of Free Media, and with KLAC's station manager calling him not just the future of radio but proclaiming that "there is not a more talented performer on the air today," starting Monday,...

LAist has always been big Bruno fans, and we're thrilled he's coming back. Voted the best sports radio personality by Los Angeles Magazine last year, Bruno's brand of funny, in-your-face, ironic humor was welcome every morning at Fox Sports Radio.

XTRA Sports 690 used to be the LA sports talk station based out of (shhhh...) San Diego. They would air USC games and other LA sporting events. But the feed was always lousy in LA. When XTRA boosted its antenna power in the late-90s, you could hear the station all the way up to Oregon, but it still came in choppy in the San Fernando Valley.