MAKING WAVES

The KTWV-FM (The WAVE) controversy refuses to die. First the station’s old deejays blasted its new diet-pop format. Now the musical complaints are legal ones. A trio of ex-KMET deejays--Jim Ladd, David Perry and Jack Snyder--will hold a press conference Friday to discuss a series of “separate but similar” lawsuits filed earlier this month in L.A. Superior Court against KTWV management.

Ladd says his suit asks for $2.1 million in damages, charging the station with “fraud and breach of covenant of good faith and fair dealing.”

“Those aren’t terms I use everyday,” said Ladd, who was hired in mid-January and fired less than a month later when the station changed format. “But in layman’s terms, I’m alleging that the management knew they were going to get rid of KMET before they hired me and that they should’ve told me of their plans.”

Ladd said that when he asked station G.M. Howard Bloom about rumors that KMET was being dismantled, Bloom told him he had “nothing” to worry about. “He said they were not going to fire everybody and that they were just doing music research.”

Bloom was out of town and unavailable for comment. KTWV program director Frank Cody, also named in the suit, responded, “I knew the deejays were displeased, but to my knowledge we haven’t been served with any papers.”