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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 ...
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 ...
This format became a fast hit for KROQ, catapulting Trenton and Drew to celebrity. [7] [third-party source needed] On August 20, 1993, Trenton was a victim of a prank played by morning DJ Gene "Bean" Baxter, where Bean had an assistant walk into Trenton's unlocked house—while he was sleeping—to "celebrate" Trenton's 40th birthday. In ...
Kevin and Bean was the morning show on KROQ-FM, an alternative rock-format radio station in Los Angeles, California.It was hosted by Kevin Ryder and Gene "Bean" Baxter.The show was on the air from 1990 to 2019 and interspersed music and news with comedy, celebrity interviews, listener call-ins, and live music performances.
[6] [7] [8] He hosted several "Flashback" radio programs on KROQ-FM, and was a frequent host at Los Angeles dance clubs on their KROQ Nights, including the famous Palace Theatre, Hollywood. He appeared on the cover of a six-volume set of 1980s music compilations called Richard Blade's Flashback Favorites .
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 ...
In 1973, KROQ's owners bought KPPC-FM, and on November 12 it began simulcasting KROQ, with the new call sign KROQ-FM. [16] Less than a year later KROQ and KROQ-FM experienced financial difficulty, and owed employees over $73,000 in unpaid salaries and owed over $14,000 to the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists pension and ...
This is the house that Rodney built and which corporate radio has spread like spores across the nation." [1] Many bands knocked on the parking lot door of KROQ's studio in Pasadena and handed Rodney a copy of their new record or tape. If he liked a track, such as Agent Orange's 1979 hit "Bloodstains," he would play that song within the hour.