Update: Layoffs at KNX
We are learning there are layoffs within the Audacy Los Angeles group. Brian Ping , evening anchor, will be departing the station. We're hearing there will be additional layoffs, both at KNX and possibly at other Audacy properties, but nothing has been confirmed. A St. Louis native, Ping graduated the University of Missouri with a degree in Political Science. He also received training at the renowned St. Louis Broadcast Center. He arrived at KNX in 2011 after three years at KDWN Las Vegas. He looked forward to a career in broadcasting, being inspired by his frequent listening of St. Louis Cardinals radio broadcasts and the newscasts that followed. Ping has family roots in Southern California. His grandfather worked as a recruiter for the Howard Hughes Corporation and raised his family in Torrance. His grandmother still lives in a house near La Jolla’s Windansea Beach that’s been in the family since the early 20th century. Ping found the beaches and the California lifestyle very