An LA-SF simulcast, remembering Melinda Lee, and other short takes
We're hearing that starting tonight, the two Audacy all-news operations in California will simulcast overnight programming. The same newscasts will be heard on both LA's KNX and the Bay Area's KCBS from midnight to 5 AM. It assumes commercials will still be customized for the local market. Rory Erikson, Joe Guimond In a possibly related matter, long time KNX overnight editor Rory Erikson is leaving the station, moving morning editor Joe Guimond to that shift. Erikson has been part of the station's award-winning editors for 31 years. Guimond served as the Assistant News Director at KFWB before moving over to KNX. He left the station in 2015 but returned to the station's editor's desk. A fond farewell: Former KNX Food News host Melinda Lee has died. Lee succeded Jackie Olden as host of the daily offering in 1986. She went to school in Brentwood before attending UCLA. A former corporate headhunter in New York, she retunred to LA to start The Perfect Setting, ...