Bob Buchmann

Monday - Friday: 3:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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Biography Southern California..Been here for a year and a half.  Good God, between the weather and the scenery, how can I ever go back to New York? And here's when the lightning bolt hit me: This past January, I woke up at home in Marina del Rey to blue skies and 76 degrees.  Took a plane to Mammoth Lakes where that same night, it was 3 degrees above in the beautiful Sierras.  Decision: I’m a Californian, period. KLOS started rocking 40 years ago, in 1969.  This is no flash in the pan, band-wagon jumping radio station!  One mission over 4 decades: to rock!  You can count the number of stations in America who share that with KLOS on one hand. Your support of rock on the radio has brought us to the top of the Arbitron Ratings...THANK YOU!  In the second quarter of 2010, we’re top 3 among Adults.  I’m the station’s Program Director, so please consider me your Listener Advocate.   Radio, the teenage years:  1974, soldering iron in hand, built a 100 watt pirate station in Dix Hills, New York to I could be right next to my hero, Don Imus, on the dial.  An FCC visit to my parent’s house ended the fun 3 months later. Radio, my 20’s and 30’s:  WBAB/Long Island VP/Programming and Morning DJ. Stayed 20 years almost to the day.  Favorite moment: The WBAB No-Skin, No-Win Tanning Contest.  And beating all those pesky New York City stations in the ratings. Radio, my 40’s:  A decade as Program Director and DJ of WAXQ, New York.   Favorite moment: When “the KLOS of the east coast”, WNEW-FM, declared that rock was dead and that they were changing formats.  We jumped in and went, over time, to #1 Adults in New York. Recent Videos Continued... Charity affiliations: Friends of Karen, Special Olympics, the Santa Monica Civic Association, Charity Begins at Home, Long Island Crisis Center, and others. (We have to give back, right?!) Born: Queens, New York Kids: 2...both in college. Proud dad! Favorite Artists: Led Zeppelin, Steely Dan, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Billy Joel, Guns N Roses, John Mellencamp, Elton John, AC/DC Favorite Albums: Every Picture Tells A Story, Sublime (their debut CD), Workingman's Dead, Gaucho, Zep IV, Back in Black Best Concerts: Paul McCartney at the Hollywood Bowl, Pink Floyd's "The Wall" '79 at Nassau Coliseum, John Mellencamp's Lonesome Jubilee at Nassau Coliseum, Billy Joel's 12th soldout show at MSG, AC/DC Back in Black at MSG Fan of: Love Joe Torre’s LA Dodgers, can absolutely cheer for the LA Angels of Anaheim, and as a 9 year season ticket holder, huge fan of the winningest team in sports...The New York Yankees. (I'll cheer for anyone playing the Red Sox!) Seasonal beers at Karl Strauss Brewery. St. Monica’s of Santa Monica and St. Mary's of Times Square. Skiing. Mountain biking. Wind surfing. Favorite Shows of the Last Decade: Entourage, Sopranos, Deadwood, Boston Legal, NCIS Los Angeles, The Apprentice, Kitchen Nightmares, ESPN Best thoughts: mornings! Thankful for: all of your suggestions and support