Click the AdBlock Plus button on your browser and select Disable on Observer.com. Did you kill Danielle?". KOBYLT: Here comes the crack ho again, what's she going to do? [13], The duo was named one of the 100 most influential people in Southern California by the Los Angeles Times in 2006. Its the station experience rather than any one host that has always gotten top billing. KFI AM's Tim Conway Jr. and his executive producer, Sheron Bellio, have been suspended without pay this week for the stunt they pulled in early May. The Question: wheres he going in Seattle? "His Beat Is the City's Pulse", Russakoff, Dale. John Ziegler finished at KFI Listeners have a chance to voice their opinion on the subject matter as well; during the presentations, votes will be taken via email for their own thoughts on the best of the three. KFI must permanently remove John and Ken from the air. "Our list of the most powerful people in Southern California". He went away mad. And so is everybody else in the industry -- all her friends and hangers-on, just everybody who knew her had to deal with this and were like, oh Jesus -. While speculating on Clive Davis's reaction to Houston's death, Kobylt imagined Davis calling her a 'crack ho' and making other derogatory comments on Houston's alleged drug use and mental state. The hosts apologized on October 8, after the election.[15]. One regular segment that does accept significant caller participation is The Hour of Rage, where callers rant either about a topic selected by the host or do freeform rants. The National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC) has spearheaded a campaign to educate advertisers about The John & Ken Show's hate speech and have them removed from KFI Los Angeles entirely. Listeners tune-in to KFI-AM 640 for updates on whats happening around Los Angeles and across the nation. I had a chance to talk with MoKelly, and he explains his new 7-10 p.m. show this way: Think The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, but on the radio rather than television. Rather than being issues-oriented like his old weekend show, he says this one will be entertaining. Copyright 2023 All Access Music Group. Kobylt criticized Florio for reneging on his promise not to raise taxes. I have yet to reach KFI programmer Robin Bertolucci, but I can guess a major reason for the changes was making sure the station didnt get stale, along with trying to make sure that its audience didnt get too old. Meza is correct that Kobylt and Chiampou regularly put hate speech on the radio waves. A recent study by the UCLA's Chicano Studies Research Center titled Quantifying Hate Speech On Commercial Talk Radio looked at the prevalence of hate speech in Los Angeles County talk radio programs and found numerous instances that met the study's criteria for statements targeting a vulnerable group or their supporters in LA's John & Ken Show. In fact, the information retrieved was about an individual who had nothing to do with the scandal, and the pointers to the information were provided by a Schwarzenegger assistant. (And KFI management gets to look like the good guy, to boot! Alex Nogales, president of the coalition, gives the Weekly his theory on why the crack ho commentary is being taken so much more seroiusly: The African-American community has got a history of civil-rights action, a strong one. Click the AdBlock Plus button on your browser and select Enabled on this site. Levine has been a proponent of shelter pet adoptions for many years, and that definitely continues into the new year. The org has succeeded in getting some advertisers to pull, but a highly publicized suspension is something else entirely. But its not going to be a political show. John Kobylt, 46, is the one who easily gets riled up over issues and events. The "winner" would be the Representative whom the show's listeners saw as the worst on illegal immigration restriction; Kobylt and Chiampou would endorse his or her opponent in the general election and urge listeners to vote for the opponent. Because after a while it's like, you know what, I didn't care if you had a hit record 20 years ago, you're a pain in the ass. The current controversy came after the hosts gave out a pro-CALIFORNIA Dream Act activist's cell phone number out on the air (the number appeared on a press release), and the activist received what he called offensive calls from listeners (NET NEWS 9/30). Get TMZ breaking news sent right to your browser! Despite these campaigns, Clear Channel, which owns KFI, as well as their market manager Greg Ashlock wrote letters in September defending the hosts' actions to Alex Nogales, President and CEO of the National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC). This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. What happened to John and Ken on KFI? TeachersCollegesj John & Ken's famous Voter Guide to the Propositions (closing, taxes) User Name: Remember Me: Password : Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! In 1990, the pair was offered the afternoon drive slot on the then brand new station New Jersey 101.5 (WKXW-FM) in the state capitol of Trenton, New Jersey. Functional cookies help to perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collect feedbacks, and other third-party features. Heres whats changed. After Slaughtering 5 Neighbors Execution Style. Bellio and Conway have also apologized with each admitting their suspensions were warranted. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". Call the Moistline 1-818-5-MOIST-9. He didn't even mention the party, but he was dressed in a tux --. It looks like a PR stunt to garner John and Ken even more notoriety than they already have. Ken Chiampou, a native of Brentwood, New York, was a certified public accountant[3] and had graduated from the University at Buffalo, working in corporate audits for a Big Eight firm. 04/28/23 8:35 PM EDT, Video & Audio KFI is licensed by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to broadcast in the HD (hybrid) format. First is KFIs local morning drive time show, in which he comments on current events. And [KFI] is very afraid that this community is going to go much further than we ever have. Because trolling is the surest shot to viraldom. He was taken from his family and held in a Nazi labor camp for five years. The pair, as part of the prank, called WAYV live on the air to solicit a donation, which led to a hang up. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". KFI's parent company, iHeartMedia, sent both of 'em home for a week, and condemned their antics as "unacceptable.". Since then they have remained as a live program; however, some interviews are pre-recorded and replayed between hours, and at times Kobylt or Chiampou will broadcast from their home studios. John and Ken's content qualified as bona fide hate speech. However, you may visit "Cookie Settings" to provide a controlled consent. KFI AM's Tim Conway Jr. and his executive producer, Sheron Bellio, have been suspended without pay this week for the stunt they pulled in early May.