Posted on 01/23/2021 5:39:18 AM PST by kingu
Larry gave Dennis Miller many opportunities and he pioneered national late-night talk radio.
History
Prior to the late 1970s, AM radio was still largely dominated by all-music formats. Many individual radio stations had introduced some talk programming to their lineups, but it was almost universally locally produced. The concept of national talk radio, broadcast over a radio network, had not been tried. In 1975, Herb Jepko pioneered the first nationwide late-night call-in radio program heard on the Mutual Broadcasting System. Jepko was briefly succeeded on Mutual by Long John Nebel in 1977. In January, 1978, Larry King began broadcasting six hours of talk programming nightly on Mutual; King’s program rapidly gained a large following, and his success proved to radio programmers that there was an audience for both late-night talk programming and national talk radio programming. NBC and ABC were quick to follow Mutual into the late-night talk radio market. ABC launched a nightly block of programming called TalkRadio and NBC launched Talknet.
“At least I won’t be hearing any more about his prostate. I hope.”
And no more of those wretched infomercials with the two fake snake oil doctors pimping green lipped mussels supplements.
I love steamed mussels.
Regards,
Larry King had lung and prostate cancer, and a massive stroke in 2019 which put him in a coma for weeks. Cause of death, you guessed it COVID-19...
Or Squatty Potty . LOL
I met the man some twenty years ago, twice, and watched as he interviewed a friend of mine (both times on nites he also had Hillary on his panel). He was an idiot. That tells me something about his audience and about why so many in the media liked him.
Smoked here...but I’d take steamed in a pinch.😎
RIP
Did he get a vaccine shot 2 weeks ago, too? /s
That’s not a good thing
True; LOL.
Salute the Marines have now surpassed Please Clap.
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