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The hoax was exposed 10 months later after KROQ had unknowingly hired the caller, Doug "the Slug" Roberts, as a DJ and the three were heard talking about the hoax on a monitored phone line at KROQ. Kevin and Bean paid the Sheriff's Department $12,170 for the cost of the investigation, and performed 149 hours of community service to compensate ...
In its heyday, KROQ was considered the most powerful radio station in the world. It was the top-rated station in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, and its "ROQ of the 80s" format was copied nationwide. [3] Its renegade roots, and willingness to experiment, came along at the same time as the birth of punk and new wave. The choices made by the ...
Rickey Floyd "Rick" Carroll (September 15, 1946 – July 10, 1989) was an American program director (PD) for influential radio station KROQ-FM in Los Angeles, California, United States, where he introduced the "ROQ of the Eighties" format. The format was synonymous with KROQ-FM and eventually developed into the modern rock format. Carroll ...
10 Cher: Cher - Hot August Night II: Neil Diamond: Live 13 Floodland: The Sisters of Mercy - 16 New Traditional: Alan Jackson - Whenever You Need Somebody: Rick Astley - 17 You Can Dance: Madonna: Remix 23 Now That's What I Call Music 10 (UK series) Various Artists: Compilation 24 Canciones de Mi Padre: Linda Ronstadt - Make It Last Forever ...
Also in 1981, Los Angeles radio station KROQ-FM began the Rock of the '80s format, which would make it the most popular station in that city. [12] With British artists featuring heavily on the station, Rick Carroll of KROQ states, "There wasn't American product worthy of being played every three hours, so we had to look and listen to British ...
In February 2019, Jed the Fish joined the Roq of the 80s lineup on KROQ HD2 station on radio.com (now audacy.com) on Sundays from 6pm to midnight PST. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] In addition to his on-air work, Jed the Fish produced the Southern California punk band El Centro debut album in 1995 [ 11 ] and the remix track “Thing” on Meg Lee Chin ’s [ 12 ...
Scott Cary Mason (September 26, 1959 – April 19, 2015) was an American radio personality, executive and engineer who worked at Los Angeles radio stations KKDJ, KIQQ, KGBS/KTNQ, and KROQ-FM. Mason suffered from kidney problems for most of his adult life and received two kidney transplants prior to his death in 2015 at the age of 55.
Dustine "Dusty" Frances Street (October 19, 1946 – October 21, 2023) was an American disc jockey. As one of the first women to work on-air in FM radio on the West Coast, [1] she was associated with station KROQ in Los Angeles in the 1980s, and was inducted into the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame in 2015.