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Nadel,
Roger: KNX, 1976-89; KFWB, 1996-2003; KMPC, 2005-06. Roger works at Westwood
One.
Naftaly, Keith: KKBT, 1993-95. Keith is senior vp of
A&R at Sony Music.
Nahan, Stu: KABC, 1986-95; KXTA, 2001-02; KFWB, 2003. Stu
was active as president of the Southern California Sports Broadcasters. He
received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in May 2007. He died of cancer
on December 26, 2007. He was 81.
Naimo,
Jack: KRKD, 1962-70; KIIS, 1970-73;
KFAC, 1973-76; KABC, 1976-99. Captain Jack has retired from
KABC.
(Wendell Noble; Nasty Neil; and Jim Newman)
Nardone, Mike: KLXU,
1988-2001; KKBT, 1993-96. Mike hosts "We Came From
Beyond" on KLXU on Sunday nights and is a record
producer.
Nash, Kevin: KKBT,
1997-2001; KJLH, 2002-08. Kevin works at Stevie Wonder's KJLH.
Nash,
Michael: KMPC, 1966-68 and 1972-75. Michael left radio for the world of PR.
Nash,
Phil: KFWB, 1995-2001; KNX, 2001. Phil left Metro Networks as morning news
producer due to company downsizing in the fall of 2008.
Nasty, Chuck: KIIS, 1994-96; KLSX, 1997-98.
"The Nasty One" works at KALC-Denver.
Nasty, Joe: KTNQ, 1976-78; KPWR, 1987-88.
Joe works at WGFX- Nashville.
Nathanson, Geoff: KFOX, 1982 and 1984-87;
KDAY; KLAC, 1990; XTRA 1990-92; KNNS, 1996; KNX, 1997-2008.
Geoff reports sports at KNXNewsradio and he was the voice of the XFL football team, the LA XTREME.
Nava,
Maria Elena: KLVE/KTNQ, 1984-97; KSCA, 1997; KLVE, 2003-04; KLAX/KXOL/KZAB/KZBA,
2004-06; KSSE, 2008. Maria is the program director at Super Estrella, KSSE.
Navarette, Reuben: KMPC, 1994-95. Reuben
writes for the Arizona Republic and is a talk show
host at KFYI-Phoenix..
Navarro, Richard: KNOB, 1979-88;
KGER, 1988-97; Salem/LA 1997-2006; KWVE-2007-08. Richard is the production
director at Christian Talk KWVE.
Nave, Milt: KALI, 1965. Unknown.
Naylor, Jerry: KRLA, 1960-61; KDAY, 1964-65;
KLAC, 1973-83. Jerry co-founded the Cavaliers (Last Kiss)
and sang lead for the Cricketts following Buddy Holly's
death. Since 1993, Jerry has been retired and is now living
in McMinnville, Oregon.
(Art Nelson; Harry Newman; and Tricia Nickell)
Neal, Howard: KFI/KOST,
1987-99. Howard opted to leave his post as general manager of
KFI and KOST when AMFM, Inc. acquired the two Cox stations in
late summer of 1999. He's now in real estate.
Neil, Nasty: KMET, 1983-86; KNAC, 1986-95.
Neil is part of the radio world on the Internet.
Nelson, Art: KFWB, 1961-62; KLAC, 1973-82;
KMPC, 1982-87. Art died of Parkinson's Disease October 15,
1999, at his home in Hemet. Art had been suffering with the
disease for the past 12 years. He is survived by his wife of
43 years, Nancy. Art started in radio as a 16-year-old
broadcaster at a 250-watt in his home town of Corsicana,
Texas. He worked for Gordon McLendon at KLIF-Dallas during
the glory years and went on to dj at KEWB-San Francisco and
WJJD-Chicago. The "Silver Fox" was 73.
(Nastyman; John Naimo; and Gene Norman)
Nelson, Bob: KKHR/KNX/fm,
1973-88. The former general manager of the CBS stations is a
broadcast consultant for International Media Group, Inc.
(KSCI/TV and KIKU/TV in Honolulu).
Nelson, Carl: KJLH, 1980-2006. Carl hosted an
early morning talk show on KJLH called "The Front
Page." He's now with Mystik 1580 in Florida.
Nelson, Don: KMGG, 1985-86. Don is
involved in real estate in the Palm Springs area. He joined RE/MAX in 2002 and
formed The Nelson Group with his son Jeff heading up the San Diego area and
Don handling the desert cities.
Nelson, Jan: KRLA, 1977-80. Jan, who worked
news, public affairs and as Hitman No. 5, is a parish
liturgist and cantor in the Los Angeles Archdiocese, and has
also taught music in Catholic schools.
Nelson,
Rob: KABC, 2006-07. Rob left his weekend and fill-in assignment at KABC in
the early fall of 2007.
Nelson, Sandy: KIEV, 1959.
Sandy had a hit with Teen Beat.
(Geoff Nathanson; Roger Nadel; Chuck Niles; and Louis Nye)
Nelson, Terry: KFI, 1979.
Terry is in sales at KWIN-Stockton.
Nelson, Tyrone "Boogie":
KKTT/KGFJ, 1977-85. Last heard, Tyrone was working for the
Good Guys in the Beverly Center.
Nemo, Doc: KROQ, 1977-78. Unknown.
Nesbitt, Bill: KWIZ, 1984-86; KEZY, 1990-93;
KYSR, 1993-95; KACD, 1995; KLAC, 1999; KFWB, 2001-06. Bill works at all-News
KFWB.
Nevada, "Outrageous": KPPC,
1970-71. Susan Carter writes for television.
Nevins, Biggie: KFI, 1973-83. Biggie was
born and raised in Brooklyn. When Cox Broadcasting bought KFI
in 1973, he was brought in to program the station. Biggie was
a winner of the Gavin Award for program management.
When he arrived at KFI, he told Don Page of the LA Times,
"We're very research minded. We intend to find out
exactly what our audience likes. Basically, I can tell you
that KFI will remain middle-of-the-road." He was
elevated to national pd and then abruptly fired in 1983.
Within a few months of leaving KFI, Biggie was moving into a
new residence in Malibu when he suffered a fatal heart attack
on June 16, 1983. John Rook talked about Biggie in a 1995
interview: "God, I miss him. He's still one of my
closest friends, even though he's been dead for 10 years.
Shortly before his death, he told me, 'If I die, I've done
all that I've wanted to do.' How prophetic. He was a lovely
person. He was cremated in L.A. and his ashes were flown to
New York but never arrived. Through some mishap they found
him in Milwaukee. Biggie would have roared!"
(Mike Nolan; Linda Nunez; George Nicholaw; and David Norrie)
Newell, Peter: KPOL/KZLA,
1972-79. Pete lives in Carmel Valley.
Newman, Harry: KBLA, 1965-66; KBBQ, 1967-68;
KLAC, 1970-84. Harry retired in late 1995 and is living in Shingle Springs
in central California.
Newman, Jim: KFWB, 1994-2000; KABC, 2000-01.
Jim was financial editor at KABC/Channel 7.
Newmark, Phil: KPWR, 1986-91. Phil owns
Newmark Communication in Toluca Lake.
Newport, Mike: KLON, 1993-99; KCRW,
1999-2007. Mike is operations director at KCRW.
Newton,
John: KGOE, 1974-76; KNJO, 1976-79. John is an insurance agent, based in the
Santa Clarita Valley. He also worked as Johnny St. Thomas at KRLA and KKLA.
Newton, Todd: KIIS, 1997;
KBIG, 2006. Todd was fill-in at KBIG.
Niagara, Joe: KPOP,
1959; KBIG, 1960-62. Joe died June 4, 2004, at the age of 76.
Nicholaw, George: KNX, 1967-2003. George
exited his post as general manager at all-News KNX on October 10,
2003. He has filed a lawsuit against Infinity/CBS Radio.
Nickell,
Tricia: Tricia worked for Metro Traffic Networks until the fall of 2008
following a company downsizing.
Nichols,
Gene: KFI, 2003-04. Gene reported news at KFI.
(Kenny Noble; Joy Nuell; Eric Norberg; and George Noory)
Nickson, Nick. Nick
broadcasts the LA Kings on radio.
Nicole, Lauryn: KPWR, 1994; KACE, 1994.
Unknown.
Niehaus, Dave: KMPC,
1966-76. Dave is the current sports radio announcer with the Seattle
Mariners baseball team.
Niles, Chuck: KFOX, 1956; KNOB, 1957-65;
KBCA, 1965-79; KKGO, 1979-89; KKJZ, 1990; KLON, 1990-2002/KKJZ, 2002-05.
The premier jazz dj died March 15, 2004, following a stroke. He was 76.
Nix, Ed: KVOE/KWIZ, 1950-62; KEZY, 1962-73;
KWIZ, 1973-86. Ed
worked morning drive in Orange County during the '70s and '80s with Bob
Shannon, Ronni Richards and Spider MacLean. He was born and raised in
Chicago and studied drafting in school. His first radio job was in Kankakee,
Illinois. Ed followed a radio friend to California in 1949 and worked for a
Fresno radio station located in the farmer's market. When the station got
into trouble, Ed took a job as a draftsman in Riverside to support his wife
and two boys while waiting for his next radio assignment. He didn't wait
long. In 1950 he joined KVOE (Voice of Orange Empire) which later became
KWIZ and for four decades Ed was the
news voice of Orange County. One day in 1986 he woke up and said,
"That's it, I'm finished with radio" and retired. Ed died July 18,
2002, of pneumonia at the age of 84.
Nixon, Joe: KXLA, KRKD; KGBS, 1966-67; KIEV,
1967-74; KFOX. Born in 1924, Joe
started his radio career in his hometown at WIBK-Knoxville in 1949. He was
very inventive in getting to Southern California, according to an interview
in R&R. While working in Ft. Worth, he would ask all artists
appearing in the Dallas area to tout "The Great Texas DJ" when
they got to L.A. One day the owner of KXLA offered him a job. "I looked
at him, looked at my watch, and told him, 'I couldn't possibly start until 1
o'clock.'" He appeared in hundreds of local commercials and had his own
show on KTTV/Channel 11 from 1959 to 1961. In 1967 Billboard magazine Joe was voted 5th most popular country jock.
He built KVRE-Santa Rosa. Joe owned a music publishing company and wrote
25 songs for leading country artists such as Kenny Rogers (including songs
for his gold record Mother Country Music), Waylon Jennings, George Jones, Dean Martin
and Ann-Margret. He wrote Freddy Hart's Top 10 hit The Pleasure's Been All Mine. After his retirement, he taught
broadcasting courses at L.A. City College until 1991. He died February 2,
1995, of leukemia at age 70.
(Rick Nunez; John North;
and Maria
Elena Nava)
Noble, Kenny (Cortes): KZLA, 1978-79; KFOX,
1980-81; KWST, 1981; KHTZ, 1981-85; KFI/KOST, 1985-86; KLSX,
1986-87; KACD, 1995-96; KOST, 1996. Kenny worked mornings at Denver's Smooth
Jazz station, KJCD, CD 104.3 until the spring of 2008. He now co-owns an
Internet radio station with Kevin Peterson.
Noble, Wendell: KHJ, 1944-49; KABC, 1960-61.
Wendell died February 10, 1988.
Nolan, Mike: KORJ, 1975; KFI/KOST,
1986-2007. Mike was a fixture at KOST and KFI providing traffic reports from
his fixed-wing plane in both drive times until a company restructuring. Mike
left the station November 30, 2007. He was rehired to broadcast traffic from
the ground in early January.
Noory, George: KFI,
2002-08. Frequent replacement for Art Bell, George
took over full-time Coast to Coast AM on January 1, 2003.
Norberg, Eric: KMPC, 1972-75.
In October 2000, Eric was appointed editor/gm of monthly
neighborhood newspaper THE BEE in Portland. He teaches radio
part-time at Mt. Hood Community College in the Portland area.
Norell, Adrienne: KLIT, 1992-94; KXEZ,
1995-96. Unknown.
Norman, Gene: KFWB, 1944-52; KLAC, 1952-58.
Gene has five publishing companies and several of his albums
have been nominated for or won Grammies.
(Jane Norris; Joe Niagara; Todd Newton; and Dave Niehaus)
Norman, George: KLAC, 1959.
Unknown.
Norman, Pat: KRTH, 1985-91. Pat ran KFRC-San
Francisco in the 1970s. The "K-Earth" gm died of a
brain tumor.
Norman, Phil: KNX, 1959; KBIG, 1968-69. Phil
passed away in the late 1980s.
Norrie, David: KMPC, 1991-93; XTRA, 1994-95.
The former Bruin football quarterback worked the UCLA games
on the radio. He also works in real estate for CB Commercial
and ABC.
Norris, Jane: KFI, 1991-97. Jane worked morning drive at
WMAL-Washington, DC.
North, John: XTRA, 1961-68; KLAC, 1968-84;
KFWB, 1988-93; KNX -1999-2007. John is an editor, writer and producer of
documentaries and special series reports.
Norton, Duke: KLAC, 50s & 60s; KBIG,
1967; KLVE. Duke was one of the "Big Five" djs at
KLAC. He broadcast the all-night show from a window at
Wallichs Music City at the corner of Sunset and Vine. He was
a former teacher at the KIIS Broadcasting School. Duke passed
away in the late 1980s.
Novak, John: KFOX, 1973-75; KWIZ, 1975-89.
John does voiceovers and works with the Hunter-Barth ad
agency in Orange County.
Novak, Lisa: KWST, 1979. Lisa works in the
D.A.'s office in San Mateo County
Novak, Mike: KIQQ, 1973-74. Mike lives in
San Diego.
Novak, Mimi: KXEZ, 1990-92; KODJ/KCBS,
1993-98. Mimi left "Arrow 93" in 1998.
Nuckols, Joe: KYPA, 1996-97. Joe is with
TAN Marketing in Asheville, North Carolina.
Nuell, Joy: KFWB, 1969-84. Joy is director
of marketing for APA Travel Center in Beverly Hills.
Nuhn, Rick: KGFJ, 1985-87; KHHT,
2003. Rick works at Concord Records.
(Joe Nasty; Stu Nahan; Nick Nickson; Mike Novak; and Kevin Nash)
Numan, Human: KIIS,
1999-2001. Human Numan is working at US1 Pop Music on Sirius Satellite
Radio.
Nunez, Linda: KNX,
1990-2008. Linda is a news anchor at KNX and has won AP's
"Best Radio News Anchor Team" in California for
four consecutive years.
Nunez, Rick: KGFJ,
1986; KHHT, 2003-08. Rick works at HOT 92.
Nye,
Louis: KLAC, 1959-60. Louis died October 9, 2005. He was 92.
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