In some markets, local liberal hosts have existed for years, such as the British talk host Michael Jackson ( who was on the air at KABC in Los Angeles beginning in 1968 and is currently at KGIL ); Bernie Ward in San Francisco ; Jack Ellery in New Jersey and Tampa ; Dave Ross in Seattle, and Marc Germain in Los Angeles.

Rivera is scheduled to head to Afghanistan for the last time in his career on April 11, 2012 ( which he specifically stated on his KABC radio show )-- as he promised his wife, Erica.

Bruce is now syndicated on 153 stations including KABC in Los Angeles.

When Rantel is absent, Carol Platt Liebau, Rob Nelson or a KABC colleague hosts the program.

Among political talk radio personalities, KABC colleague Tammy Bruce ( who is also openly gay ) has a somewhat comparable perspective.

Douglas John " Doug " McIntyre ( born November 11, 1957 ) is the host ( as of January 3, 2012 ) of McIntyre In The Morning on KABC 790 Los Angeles, and is a page one columnist for the Los Angeles Daily News.

Paul youngest brother is Marc " Mr K " Germain, a popular talk-show host in Los Angeles and formerly known as Mr. KABC and before that as " Mr. KFI ".

KABC ( 790 AM ) is a Los Angeles radio station, and a West Coast flagship station for the Cumulus Media company.

KABC is the flagship station of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

KABC is notable for having a diverse set of talk show hosts including African-American civil rights attorney Leo Terrell, novelist John Batchelor, Los Angeles Zagat Survey editor Merrill Shindler and automotive expert Leon Kaplan who in January, 2010, celebrated thirty years of broadcasting on KABC.

KABC is received in the Los Angeles basin and throughout most of Southern California west of the San Jacinto mountains ( partially audible in the Coachella Valley such as Palm Springs ), its signal reaches San Diego and as far north as Delano in Kern County.

From 1929 to 1944, he also owned KECA-AM 790, now KABC.

The FM station was owned by ABC since the beginning, and the call letters of the AM and FM stations were accordingly changed to KABC and KABC-FM in the 1950s.

From 1929 to 1944, he also owned KECA-AM 790, now KABC.

*, a video focusing on the hate crimes incited by KABC 790 AM shock jock Doug McIntyre against a Los Angeles charter school, Academia Semillas del Pueblo, in 2006.

He was fired from KFI in 1996 and then hired by competitor KABC.

In 1979 Harmony was featured by KABC in Los Angeles with a live broadcast of the Ken and Bob Company radio show.

He seems to have picked up the pieces of his New York life and moved on, now dating KABC news / radio reporter Geri Nichols ( played by Bronson's real-life wife Jill Ireland ).

Although regarded by many as a liberal, he was not alone in that point of view: KABC had several liberal hosts, as well as several who were conservative.

Shortly after the announcement, fellow KABC talk show host Larry Elder has referred to Rantel as one half of the Marx Brothers stating that he believed Rantel didn't believe in the conservative principles he professed and that, by voting for Obama, he had more Marxist leanings.

Graduating from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1984, he served in the US Army as an Air Defense Artillery officer, then became an entertainment reporter and film critic, including stints at News12 in Norwalk, Connecticut, the New York Daily News, Premiere, Movieline, Entertainment Weekly, Los Angeles, and talk radio shows at KMPC and KABC, where his tactical on-air bets with Martin Landau, Mel Gibson and James Cameron that they would win the Oscar resulted in them having to pay up at the Academy Awards ceremony by publicly thanking him in their acceptance speeches.

The Blue Network ( which would soon become ABC ) bought the station in July, 1944, for $ 800, 000 ; the call sign was changed to KABC in 1954, after that combination was released by a station in San Antonio.

Though a prominent Los Angeles signal, KABC declined in the ratings following ABC's takeover by Disney in December, 1996.

( In the case of KGO, since KPIX was already using the Eyewitness News name, KGO named its newscast Channel 7 NewsScene in 1969 and by 1983 simply Channel 7 News, while WXYZ used the Action News name since rival WJBK-TV called its newscasts Eyewitness News ; KABC and WLS were free to use the Eyewitness News name as did WABC-TV ).

In the spring of 1954, Los Angeles TV station KABC expanded on the concept by having an appropriately offbeat host introduce the films: for a year on Saturday nights, The Vampira Show, with Maila Nurmi in her newly adopted persona of a sexy bloodsucker (" Your pin-down girl "), presented low-budget movies with black humor and a low-cut black dress.

On March 16, 2007, she returned to semi-regular radio appearances on The Marc " Mr. K " Germain Show on KTLK-AM ( the new show hosted by the former Mr. KABC ) and appeared twice a month.

In October of 2011 Cumulus Broadcasting took over ownership of KABC ( and sister station KLOS ).

The Fremantle and KABC versions were hardcover, while the CBC and BBC versions, though identical in content, were softcover and GBC-bound, with different covers ( with the BBC version under the title Entertaining With Kerr ).

Although KABC and KSPN have the different owners, " 710ESPN " reached out to KABC to air Games 3 and 5 of the 2008 World Series because KSPN was committed to other live sports events.

Two radio stations — KMOX, 1120 AM in St. Louis, Missouri, and KABC, 790 AM in Los Angeles — adopted an all-talk show format in 1960, and both claim to be the first to have done so.

His radio program The Larry Elder Show airs weekdays 3pm on talk radio 790 KABC in Los Angeles, California.

* KABC ( AM ), a radio station ( 790 AM ) licensed to Los Angeles, California, United States

* Talk Radio 790 KABC

" As a non-syndicated local radio personality, Rantel has a unique manner of announcing his broadcast station, KABC ( he formerly elongated the letter " K " and currently inserts the phrase " real radio, live and local ").

KABC has been the base of operation for many influential radio hosts, including early talk polemicists Joe Pyne and Louis Lomax, Ira Fistel, Michael Jackson, whose talk show attracted celebrities, politicians, and newsmakers of all types, pioneering radio psychologists Dr. Toni Grant and David Viscott, and more recent syndicated hosts including Dennis Prager ( now with NewsTalk 870 KRLA and the Salem Radio Network ), John and Ken ( on KFI before their stint on KABC and currently back on KFI ) and Larry Elder ( now back on KABC as a local show ).

Wayne Satz, at the time a reporter for the Los Angeles ABC affiliate television station KABC, reported on the case and the children's allegations.

At least one other ABC owned-and-operated television station, KABC in southern California, also produced a seven-minute midnight newscast during the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.

) During March, Winchell was " banned for life " from KABC ( AM ) in Los Angeles at the behest of ABC radio host Bill O ' Reilly, over a retelling of an occurrence she dubbed " Croissantgate " ( KABC provided Bill O ' Reilly with croissants that were not fresh enough for his taste, causing a commotion at the station ).

Beginning in 1982, Grant and several other KABC personalities, were syndicated nationally via satellite, on the ABC radio network.

As the newly-merged Capital Cities / ABC opted to retain KABC and KLOS, both KLAC and KZLA-FM were sold, with both outlets going to Malrite Communications.

KABC station manager Ben Hoberman and KMOX station manager Robert Hyland independently developed the all-talk format.

For example, in Los Angeles, radio station KABC uses the term " KABC Traffic Alert ", while radio stations KNX, KFI-AM, KRLA, and KCRW still use the original term.

In 1980 Viscott began presenting his own full-time show on talk radio, and was notably one of the first psychiatrists to do so ( talk station KABC ).

Wesley also decided against renewing the long term agreement for carrying Dodger baseball, positioning KABC to become the new Dodger station in Los Angeles.

" His show originally aired on L. A. radio station KABC and briefly aired on KGIL.

Finally, in 1966, heritage talk station KABC hired him, and it was a perfect fit.

Rantel received the opportunity to work in Los Angeles at radio station KABC due to the encouragement of another East Coast transplanted talk host, Tom Leykis.

From 1974 to 1997, KABC was also the station of the Los Angeles Dodgers and their hall-of-fame broadcaster Vin Scully.

Though it began with a moribund " Talkradio " format delivered via satellite from KABC Los Angeles, the station eventually became the home of nationally syndicated conservative powerhouse Rush Limbaugh, who in the Reagan years railed against liberal figures like civil-rights advocate Jesse Jackson and former New York Governor Mario Cuomo.

As a talk station, KRLA featured many cast-offs from KABC, such as Michael Jackson and Ken Minyard.