Last Hope for Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio

It seems that KLSX-FM finally has moved from rock to rock bottom (“KLSX (With Kato) Joins Talk Radio Wars Today,” Calendar Aug. 1).

Can it be true that they have dismissed deejays Cynthia Fox, Bob Coburn and Jim Ladd, my all-time favorite deejay, and are replacing them with a talk format starring Kato Kaelin? Sadly, it appears so.

My hope is that the ex-KLSX jocks will be snapped up en mass by another station, and their listeners will switch to that station, and leave Howard Stern and Kaelin talking to themselves.

DAN WOODLING

Garden Grove

It seems odd to me somehow that KLSX is giving up the ghost and turning itself over to the very thing that killed it as a music station. 97.1’s decline can be traced back to the moment it surrendered its morning drive time to New York City’s No. 1 form of air pollution: Howard Stern.

I don’t doubt that this ultimately chased away KLSX’s core audience and only attracted the kind of people who actually find Stern funny, which isn’t a demographic I particularly would covet.

KLOS discarded most of its real on-air talent in favor of its current crop of DJ Blandness, so KLSX’s meltdown leaves KSCA 101.9 as about the only choice left for serious rock music lovers in L.A. So I urge all former KLSX listeners to support this alternative, lest we lose our last hope for good rock ‘n’ roll radio.

I hope it doesn’t take long for KLSX to see the error of its ways and realize that Kato Kaelin for Jim Ladd is not a fair trade.

PAUL McELLIGOTT

Lake Forest

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