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  The local all-news outlet is making some news of their own once again. Julie Chin , the station's Director for the past 19 years, has been released. A veteran of San Francisco's news-talk behemoth KGO, Chin arrived from the Bay Area in 2006. She recently oversaw the station's wall-to-wall coverage of the Palisades and Eaton fires.  A graduate of Cal Berkeley, Chin grew up in a household where the radio was always tuned to KGO.  “I was always interested in news, information, media, etc. so I focused on that. I did a couple of internships, both of which happened to be in radio and my love of radio was solidified. It felt like home,” said Chin.  She’d find herself eventually hired as an editorial assistant and producer, finding herself in management “because I kept saying ‘yes!’” We'd previously reported on the departure of Alex Silverman , who served as KNX's Program and News Director as Audacy's VP of News Programming here in LA. Silverman also was part of the ...

mail. It wasn't an April Fool's joke, as some actually thought. Kevin Ryder , half of the legendary KROQ morning team of Kevin and Bean ( Gene Baxter ) has returned to the station in afternoon drive. Here's the official press release from Audacy: LOS ANGELES, CA – April 2, 2025 –  Audacy’s World Famous KROQ (KROQ-FM) welcomes back Radio Hall of Fame inductee Kevin Ryder. Listeners can tune into his new show on KROQ, weekdays from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. PT. Megan Holiday will now host evenings.  “Kevin Ryder is a Radio Hall of Fame Broadcaster who spent most of his adult life waking up SoCal with his former partner Bean,” said Kevin Weatherly, Senior Vice President of Programming, KROQ. “Their authentic and irreverent morning show is legendary, and I’ve had the privilege of having a front-row seat for the majority of it. Kevin’s return to KROQ in afternoons is a full circle moment in the best way possible.” “I spent half of my life with my fellow favorite weirdos, helping to...