An ayoda on radio

  We hope you had a Merry Christmas and had a good start to Hanukah! This is our dog Pepper with her present, it's already had one ear chewed off. They're listening:   Heritage rocker KLOS is conducting a listener survey to find out what their audience is listening to and what they want to hear. Worth noting is the station is station is comparing itself to other rock stations includiing JACK-FM (KCBS-FM), ALT 98.7 (KYSR) and KROQ, also well-established stations. There's speculation Meruelo Media is now refocusing on their radio properties, having sold KWHY-TV to the Church of Scientology. Still, Meruelo owns KBEH-TV, along with their other broadcast properties - bilingual Reggaton CALI 93.9 (KLLI), hip hop Power 106 (KPWR), and classic hip hop KDAY. Others speculate Meruelo is trying to exit broadcast altogether. One more note: The call letters for Channel 22 will be changed to KSCN , abandoning the KWHY call letters the station had held for nearly 60 years. Another final...

  While we were out of town last week, we'd been hinted the 2024 edition of layoffs at iHeart Media were not yet completed. We can confirm the latest changes involve their Total Traffic & Weather Service  (TTWN) which also is affiliated with their "24 / 7 News" which now feeds KFI and other iHeart stations from a regional hub. Twenty-eight year TTFN veteran Mike O'Brien is among those who were laid off from Total Traffic. He most recently served as the afternoon airborne reporter for "KFI in the Sky." He is a native of the Inland Empire, a graduate of Redlands High School. The Riverside resident also studied at Saddleback College and California Baptist University. O'Brien previously provided traffic reports for country station 95.1 K-FROG (KFRG) as "Commander Kermit," before heading to all-news KNX and later KFI. Nick Pagliochini was "the traffic guy" for KFI's "Wake Up Call," Bill Handel 's morning show, the Gar...