Ditto. Can't remember the exact date, but from the beginning. I had just bought a brand new Apple II GS, and found a 10 megabyte SIder Hard Drive for only $400.00. Barry Farber was my man until then, but he was slowly displaced.
About the time you got an Apple II, we got a PC Junior.
For fans of conservative talk radio, Southern California had slim pickin's in those days. Ray Briem had a show during the graveyard shift, but I was asleep, along with most everyone else, during his broadcast. Nonetheless, he had some interesting characters call in, such as Moscow Mary, a hardline Stalinist who was always urging listeners to read books by George Seldes, the leftist muckraker of the 1940's, as well as Lefty Louie, Lefty Louise, and The Documentation Person, or Doc, another left/liberal. Some of these would show up on George Putnam's show, which ran from noon to two on KIEV, at 870 kcs. And there was the zany Wally George, who had a TV show on KDOC, which broadcast out of Anaheim.
However, daytime talk radio in Southern California during the 1980's was dominated by Michael Jackson, a flaming liberal on KABC at 790 kcs. When Rush came on opposite his spot in 1989, Jackson faded like a neon tan. Last I heard, he was with Air America, or something like that.