When CBS Radio was trying to cut costs (i.e. talent) from their radio stations three years ago in an ill-fated attempt to attract a potential buyer, one of the victims was Freddy Snakeskin, who had ...

Contrary to popular belief, radio isn’t dead! The truth is, video didn’t kill the radio star; it was free entertainment on the internet that almost did. It’s hard to fathom, but before the internet ...

Back when KROQ was known as the “Roq of the ’80s,” it wielded the power to make or break music artists like no other radio station in town — or the entire country. It was the new wave era, and some ...

 MINDY ROSS/Daily Bruin Senior Staff No Doubt frontwoman Gwen Stefani keeps the crowd under control at KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas at the Universal Amphitheatre. By Chris Moriates Daily Bruin ...

DJ Jed the Fish, seen onstage at the 25th KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas at the Forum, died Monday morning in hospice at home. He was 69. (Kevin Winter / Getty Images) Jed the Fish, the longtime KROQ ...

KROQ program director Darrell Wayne gave his on-air staff the freedom to mix the familiar — such as David Bowie — with the new. Weekend DJ Rodney Bingenheimer, in particular, pushed the sonic envelope ...

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LOS ANGELES (CBS) — The popular radio program "Jonesy's Jukebox" will be returning to KROQ beginning on Sunday, October 10, 2010, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., according to the station. Sex Pistol's ...

Jed “The Fish” Gould, the pioneering Los Angeles DJ who spent 34 years on influential Los Angeles alternative radio station KROQ-FM as “Jed the Fish,” died early Monday morning. He was 69; the cause ...