KMPC disc jockey ( and later Laugh-In announcer ) Gary Owens featured Miller on his radio program, as early as 1960 and, around that time, she also appeared on a limited-run album of his comedy routines.

Sammy Jackson ( August 18, 1937 — April 24, 1995 ) was an American actor known particularly for his roles reflecting rural life and a country music disc jockey, although he also played pop-standards during 1983 at Los Angeles's KMPC.

The religious format lost money and in early 1981, KPRZ became the Music of Your Life format of big bands and pop standards, with legendary former KMPC personalities such as Gary Owens, Dick Whittinghill, Johnny Magnus, Chuck Southcott and 1976 to 1978 KIIS-FM morning personality " World Famous " Tom Murphy.

Generally 40 positions in length, they charted airplay on stations such as WNEW, New York City, WWEZ, Cincinnati, and KMPC, Los Angeles.

He also sold several radio stations he owned, including KSFO in San Francisco, KMPC in Los Angeles, KOGO in San Diego, and other stations in the Golden West radio network.

While it seems a new trend for sports teams to buy their own radio stations ( see St. Louis Cardinals baseball and Washington Redskins football teams ), for the Angels it is a tradition started by team founder Gene Autry, who owned 710 KMPC and broadcasted the games for years.

Sigmon had worked for Golden West's station KMPC 710 in 1941, but found himself in the United States Army Signal Corps during World War II, assigned to General Dwight D. Eisenhower's staff, in charge of non-combat radio communications in the European theater.

" More practically, he refused to use it unless the receivers were made available to all Los Angeles radio stations — it could not be a KMPC monopoly.

In 1941 he was hired as an engineer for MacMillan Petroleum Company's flagship radio station, KMPC, in Los Angeles, California.

Sigmon resumed his job in Los Angeles after the war, rising to the position of Executive Vice President with Gene Autry's Golden West Broadcasters, which owned eight radio and two television stations on the west coast, including KMPC.

* Jack Angel-the former KMPC overnight man and cartoon voiceover hosted primarily afternoon shows 1970-76.

" Hilly Rose Los Angeles broadcast history: KABC, 1970 – 72 ; KFI, 1972 – 79 ; KMPC, 1979 – 82 ; KABC, 1982-84.

The 50, 000-watt AM radio stations WLW in Cincinnati, Ohio, WJR in Detroit, Michigan, WNEW in New York City, New York, WCCO in Minneapolis, Minnesota, KMPC in Los Angeles, California, and Canadian stations CFRB in Toronto, Ontario and CKNW in Vancouver, British Columbia, were known as " full-service MOR " stations with scheduled programming other than the MOR music.

Jones served as a color analyst for Rams broadcasts on KMPC radio in the 1994 season, teaming with Steve Physioc and Jack Snow.

In the late 1980s, Ladd worked at KMPC, where he helped to shape its " Full Spectrum Rock " blend of classic and modern rock, and was enthusiastic about its rebranding as KEDG " the Edge " in March 1989, but was laid off when the station abruptly abandoned its rock format two months later.

Goodwill Stations Inc., formed by George A. Richards ( who also owned the Detroit Lions ), acquired WJR in 1929, and it became known as " The Goodwill Station " ( along with WGAR in Cleveland and KMPC in Los Angeles ).

During the 1960s, Dick Whittinghill on radio station KMPC sometimes called it the Four Letter Interchange.

Later Richards broadcast daily live broadcasts of The Tabernacle of the Air over KGER in Long Beach, California, and live weekly remote broadcasts from his tabernacle to KMPC ( AM ) in Beverly Hills.

He also had lengthy stays at KGIL, KKGO / KJQI and Gene Autry's KMPC.

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.

After a few short stints at other stations, Edwards was hired at KMPC in Los Angeles, occupying the 9 a. m .- noon slot for several years beginning in 1968.

Gene Autry, former movie cowboy, singer, actor and owner of Golden West Broadcasters ( including Los Angeles ' KMPC radio and KTLA television ), attended the Major League Owners ’ meeting in St. Louis in 1960 in hopes of winning broadcasting rights for the new team ’ s games.

And many advertisers have been happy with the results of letting a Negro disc jockey phrase the commercial in his own words, working only from a fact sheet.

* 1967 – Prince Paul, American disc jockey and record producer ( Gravediggaz, Stetsasonic, and Handsome Boy Modeling School )

* 1965 – Rob Stenders, Dutch disc jockey

Beatmatching ( or Beatmaxing ) is a disc jockey technique of pitch shifting or timestretching a track to match its tempo to that of the currently playing track e. g. the kicks and snares in two house records hit at the same time when both records are played simultaneously.

Examples include Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels ( 1998 ) ( wherein the slang is translated via subtitles in one scene ); The Limey ( 1999 ); Sexy Beast ( 2000 ); Snatch ( 2000 ); Ocean's Eleven ( 2001 ); and Austin Powers in Goldmember ( 2002 ); It's All Gone Pete Tong ( 2004 ), after BBC radio disc jockey Pete Tong whose name is used in this context as rhyming slang for " wrong "; Green Street Hooligans ( 2005 ).

A disc jockey voiceover says: " WZAZ in Chicago, where disco lives forever!

* 1921 – Alan Freed, American disc jockey ( d. 1965 )

* 1955 – Mark Thompson, American disc jockey and actor

A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who plays recorded music for an audience.

The world's first radio disc jockey was Ray Newby, of Stockton, California.

In 1935, American radio commentator Walter Winchell coined the term " disc jockey " ( the combination of disc, referring to the disc records, and jockey, which is an operator of a machine ) as a description of radio announcer Martin Block, the first announcer to become a star.

The term " disc jockey " appeared in print in Variety in 1941.

The postwar period coincided with the rise of the radio disc jockey as a celebrity separate from the radio station, also known as a " radio personality ".

Promoters, who called themselves DJs, would throw large parties in the streets that centered on the disc jockey, called the " selector ," who played dance music from large, loud PA systems and bantered over the music with a boastful, rhythmic chanting style called " toasting ".

In 1977, Saratoga Springs, NY disc jockey Tom L. Lewis introduced the Disco Bible ( later renamed Disco Beats ), which published hit disco songs listed by beats per minute ( tempo ), as well as by either artist or song title.

This song was the first exposure of hip-hop music, as well as the concept of the disc jockey as band member and artist, to many mainstream audiences.

* 1954 – Mike Pickering, English disc jockey and musician ( Quando Quango and M People )

Despite the disdain of the British media, Brooks's overall popularity in the country was evident, with a top disc jockey, Nick Barraclough, referring to Brooks as Garth Vader ( a play on Darth Vader ) for his " invasion " of the charts and his success in the country genre.

* Damien McCaul-Television presenter and Dublin's Q102 disc jockey

After leaving the Army, Marrow wanted to stay away from gang life and violence and instead make a name for himself as a disc jockey.