Jim Ladd spun vinyl and interviewed rock stars on L.A. stations KLOS and KMET during the heyday of free-form FM radio, and was immortalized on Tom Petty's 'The Last DJ.'
Bipartisan legislation that would require car manufacturers to keep the AM band in their dashboards is moving forward. It's also united an unusual coalition representing conservative talk radio hosts, immigrant communities and rural workers.
Mary Pattiz, who as Mary Turner was a silky-voiced DJ at KMET, the album-oriented rock station that was the soundtrack of Southern California in the 1970s and early 80s, before leaving radio to become an addiction counselor and philanthropist, died May 9 at her home in Beverly Hills, California. She was 76.
She was known as “the Burner” for her seductive delivery, but off the air she was anything but a wild rock ’n’ roller. She later became an addiction counselor.