The black audience in LA ate it up, but I personally was never into that show. The first song under the new format was "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" by Michael Jackson. In the 1990s, KMEL's DJ Alex Mejia put together a show called "Westside Radio" which featured Ice Cube's West Side Connection. If we hear anything, we will let you know. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. He was also in Janet Jackson's "If" music video when he was still at KMEL in San Francisco. Hear the painful phone call below, and check outXXL's hub of exclusive Tupac content for the 20th anniversary of his death. The majority of KMEL's playlist features music under the rubric of the Urban Contemporary format, heavy on hip-hop and R&B. However, on July 3, 2012, a year after making a return to morning drive, Dees parted ways with KHHT due to a desire by station management to make some adjustments in its direction.[72]. He started his radio deejay career in the late 80s on San Franciscos KMEL-FM, a sister station to the Beat. To be honest, I dont know whats worse the racist management or black people helping them BE racist. Under Naftaly's guidance, KMEL gravitated its format direction from pop top 40 to rhythmic by adding more urban artists and increasing its popularity with younger audiences. Evergreen Media ended the ratings war with KYLD by purchasing it later that year. Farmer went on to play college basketball at the University of Nebraska, where he became a star player. KMEL has studios located in the SoMa district, and broadcasts a "superpower" Class B signal[1] of 69,000 watts from a transmitter atop the San Bruno Mountains south of San Francisco. KMEL suffered a setback in ratings between 2009 and 2010. [77] The HD3 subchannel relayed KTLW in Lancaster, which carried Educational Media Foundation's Air1 format; the subchannel acted as a programming source to a network of analog translators throughout the southern portion of Los Angeles and Orange counties. Laboe's move was interpreted as an attempt to expand the station's Hispanic audience as it competed with KRBV and KJLH, both of which were African-American owned, operated and targeting stations (only KJLH remains Black-owned). The present-day format has made the station less synonymous with the previous short lived formats and became more recognized in the Bay Area's African American community all the while targeting a wider audience to date, thus giving it heritage status through the KMEL call letters. Finally, we went to BRE. There was a black woman who worked at KKBT who was playing both sides, and she helped the white management eliminate the black male talent by acting like she was compassionate with the racism that was taking place and learning how we felt. I think I found some family members on facebook, but I didn't want to assume based on the last name. The whole situation was a great lesson in not only racism but greed and betrayal and more even amongst our own. The paper said the station should be called KKKBT and was racist and had homosexuals in management These were the days when rumors like that could get you blackballed. KUDOS to Billboard for having the balls, unlike the black trades at the time to run the story on the situation. See The Steve Harvey Morning Show Discusses a Woman Whose Groupie Husband Fantasizes About Black Actresses During Sex (video). here in San Francisco that Theo actually started telling people over the air that it was indeed him in the video. Who is DJ Quicksilva? Seeing Theo in Studio City Over the past several years, Ross states he has repeatedly been asked where former KKBT and KMEL DJ Theo Mizuhara is. The station, located on Yucca St in Hollywood at the time, was historic and the very place I was working when the 1994 Northridge earthquake hit while I was on the air doing an overnight shift. I never told a soul about it. I also hear that he is still in the LA area working in a different industry. It appears Theo doesnt want to be found, as MANY people in the industry have been asking and wondering what happened to him. Nationally, it was THE station and a place where black announcers wanted to work badly. THEY'RE LISTENING. List of "grandfathered" FM radio stations in the U.S. [27] The KFAC Listeners' Guild was established in 1970 supported by an annual $3 membership fee, providing listeners a chance to provide direct feedback to the station and its operations,[28] it boasted over 11,000 members after the first year. Everybody wanted to be his friend, including a lot of the rappers during that era, but Theo was more grounded and kind of kept to himself and took it all in stride. Ross stated. Taking into account various assets, Theodore's net worth is greater than $250,000 - $499,999; and makes between $100 - 149,999 a year. The music, the branding, the imaging and the promotions were all top-notch. Whilenearly everybody in hip-hop was devastated, we didn'tget to hear manyraw reactions frompeople across the industry. Does anyone know where DJ Theo (Theo Mizuhara) has went. He was himself. 130 Likes, 1 Comments - Rimu * . I never guessed I would have a job where I get paid for just being myself., Cheo Hodari Coker is a Times staff writer, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, Mars Voltas lead singer broke with Scientology and reunited with the band. to see possibly who they are and full class lists found from school records and public sources. [60][61] After less than five months, on February 3, 1990, the station switched to rhythmic adult contemporary, while maintaining the "FM 92 The Beat" branding. Tech Industry? By the time we went to the Hollywood Branch of the NAACP the complaints from Black men who had worked at the station shortly before us were mounting. Captian G loved to party and was very popular with the ladies too and when he didnt show up, Theo had to stay past his shift, and he started asking people on the air if they knew where he was, making a joke of the situation. 4.2K views, 44 likes, 21 loves, 7 comments, 60 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Yesterday'sHipHop+: The opening theme song for 92.3 the beat Jamz! But anyway, I figured more people would probably see the video than to read Yolk Magazine since Yolk is still very limited in distribution and such. MyLife is NOT a Consumer Reporting Agency - You may NOT use this information to make decisions about consumer credit, employment, tenancy or any other purpose that would require FCRA compliance. 4 times "I can't think, homie," responds Quik, delivering perhaps one of the most bone-chilling responses toPac's impending death ever recorded. He has a certain kind of soul that cant be denied., Hes also big on West Coast rap, from Ice Cube and Dre to DJ Quik and Snoop Doggy Dogg, citing a rage that cant be found in any other type of music.. As of April 2009, KHHT once again became the only rhythmic adult contemporary in the market, as KMVN made a format change to Spanish. with DJ Theo! [35] Days before that deal closed, on January 15, 1989, KFAC-FM was sold to Evergreen Media for $55 million,[36] setting a record for the most expensive sale of a classical music outlet in the United States. How Palm Springs ran out Black and Latino families to build a fantasy for rich, white people, 17 SoCal hiking trails that are blooming with wildflowers (but probably not for long! We also have wildfires, earthquakes, movie stars, television studios, music, world-class food, beaches, mountains, traffic jams, museums, theme parks, and the most beautiful Redditors of all time. By using our site, you agree to our use of cookies. He was very popular, and he told me he was the youngest of like 19 kids. 1 = This station is a simulcast, in whole or in part. Keith Naftaly left the station and radio sometime after that and he was replaced as the PD. You can hear it below. March 14, 2023. After Manly and the station met several times, we were finally told that the situation had been resolved and KKBT would meet a list of demands, one of which was sponsoring the NAACPs breakfast meetings. So it's likemy stomach hurt.". The fact of the matteris that it isn't even close to being him. Theo was the most in-demand and biggest star at the station without question. Ross shared. [69] However, KHHT was not a typical urban AC station; this station was one of the first urban AC's to play more old school/classic soul, the more mainstream-level R&B (barely-to-not playing neo-soul at all) and some rhythmic and Latino pop/R&B songs to cater to the Hispanic and Asian audiences that listen to R&B music in particular. This may contain information such as company name, job title, address, and time period of service. We told her what happened in a meeting and she agreed to meet with the station. Working with Theo was great. Translation: I'm queer, any objections?~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. Thats what no color lines [the stations slogan] is about.. The Undeniable Top 10 BEST Black Male R&B Groups From the 10 Music Industry Titans You Need to Know NOW! What information about Theodore are you looking for? Submit it to us and it will be shown here after review. View personal, professional, and Dating reviews for Theodore. [13] Jeff Chang credits KMEL's reputation as "the people's station" for its location "blessed with one of the strongest campus and community radio networks in the country. [25], KFAC and KFAC-FM ended their full-time simulcast on January 17, 1972; while both kept the same format and same airstaffs, KFAC-FM utilized a deeper playlist and broader spectrum of selections, while KFAC focused on more familiar selections and melodies, aiming to attract younger listeners. List of "grandfathered" FM radio stations in the U.S. filed concerning the project proposed for 6735 Yucca Street in Hollywood", "Other Stations Move to Fill Classical Void", "Black Radio Comes In Loud and Clear: Music: 'Urban contemporary' is a leading format in cities throughout the country", https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Ratings-Directories/RR-1991-1.pdf, "The Beat Goes On To Adult Urban: New Airstaff To Be Named", "Charting the Rise of 'Urban Contemporary': Radio: KKBT's new format has launched it into Southern California's Top 10. KHHT's sister station KBIG-FM once had a rhythmic AC direction before shifting back to Hot AC in September 2007. Whatever. Between 2 and 6 every weekday afternoon, female callers from teens to thirty-somethings overwhelm the request lines of radio station KKBT-FM (92.3)--popularly known as the Beat--all hoping for an encounter with Theo, the disc jockey with the most alluring bedroom voice on Los Angeles radio. We called again the next week and the next and the next, all to no avail. Update information for Theo Mizuhara . I'm a male and enjoyed his nightly show the most with all the "on-air" calls he would get from female listeners, pure radio entertainment. Join. Bennett anchored the morning position which was followed by well-liked veteran Tony Kilbert covering mid-day, music director Paul Vincent covering the afternoon, then Mary Holloway and Michael St. John in the evening. Archived post. Scan this QR code to download the app now. I was not surprised at all. Report as inappropriate. (Since then, he was served a lawsuit by KPWR's parent company Emmis Communications for breach of contract, thus preventing him from joining the station until his contract or his injunction was lifted; he would join the station on March 9. #djTheo #TheBeatLA . During the 1990s, the station held a summer concert known as "Summer Jam", which featured major Hip-hop and R&B stars who performed at the Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre. His battles with the church arent over, Michelle Obama didnt just attend a Springsteen concert in Barcelona. Ton!, Bell Biv Devoe, Boyz II Men, Jodeci, E-40, the Coup, Too Short, Club Nouveau and Mac Dre. Of course, Urban Network opted out of running it, but had Radio Facts been around at the time. Turns out, someone did a welfare check on Captain G when they kept hearing Theo ask people if they knew where he was and Captain G was found dead in his apartment that day from an overdose. In early 1987, KMEL hired popular club DJ Cameron Paul away from rival KSOL because of his sizable following. [14] During the football season in late 1985, 49ers tight end Russ Francis joined the morning zoo by phone and sometimes in person to comment on sports. "Late Night" is an unreleased cut Quikproduced for 'Pac that ended up on Suge Knight's strangeSuge Knight Represents: Chronic 2000compilation before appearing on 'Pac's posthumousBetter Dayzalbum in 2001. We have been repeatedly asked where former KKBT and KMEL DJ Theo Mizuhara is. I always got a good laugh during his shows with his "game", advice, and settle clowning. Feb. 9, 1997 12 AM PT. KGO-FM moved to 106.1 FM on November 3, 1947, with facilities at a former General Electric plant on East 12th Street in Oakland. He originally started at KKBT doing overnights. Somewhere online said he's in the tech industry now. All three stations saw good ratings numbers with this formula. Early on, when I started Radio Facts I went up to another station to do a story on racism by a janitor who was used by the white morning team to do bits on the air. [18], E.L. Cord sold KFAC and KFAC-FM to Cleveland Broadcasting Incorporated, founded by former Cleveland, Ohio mayor Ray T. Miller, for a combined $2 million. As an urban contemporary station, KKBT hit #1 a few times in the ratings, and competed aggressively with a hip-hop station on the 105.9 frequency, KPWR. He's the most mysterious dude in radio, nobody's heard or seen him for a while and he doesn't even have a Wikipedia page. Then Mike hired a helicopter and flew it over The Beats Summer Jam JUST like he said he would. I asked him how he planned to do it. See also. [75] The entire "Hot" airstaff was released (including Art Laboe, who would later end up on KDAY) on the same day as the announcement, as KHHT began promoting a "major announcement" at 9:23a.m. the following morning, and running a "300 Greatest Hot Songs of All Time" countdown set to conclude at that time. However, by 2008, it became apparent that the over-saturation of Adult R&B stations in Los Angeles had made it difficult for three outlets to compete for the same audience. I could never imagine a country radio station or a rock radio station having a slogan like that. Report as inappropriate 3/14/2015 Big T. Koreatown, Los Angeles, CA 208 friends 89 Report as inappropriate He was good friends with the late Captain G (Greg Beasley), who was another jock at KKBT. In January 1982, KMEL obtained a new rival when KCBS-FM transformed itself from an adult contemporary-format station into rock-formatted KRQR. Theo mizuhara, he was in some music videos in the 90s. Previously cities included Oakland CA and San Mateo CA. The same woman who betrayed the black male jocks immediately took to the stage to defend the station for not being racist. He worked on urban/hip-hop stations KMEL in San Francisco, and KKBT and KDAY in Los Angeles. asks Theo. The morning show was hosted by John London and the House Party, which included a mixture of people from all races but a white host, which was very odd for an urban station at that time. By the time we approached the organization, Sandra Evers-Manly was the president. He disbursed thousands of flyers while weaves and paper plates flew everywhere from the helicopter. Some say the station's success foreshadows an extensive market realignment", http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/2000s/2000/RR-2000-06-30.pdf, http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/2000s/2001/RR-2001-08-17.pdf, "Real 92.3 Los Angeles Launches With Full Aim On Power 106", "iHeart DJ Big Boy Settles Feud with Old Neighborhood", "Emmis And Big Boy Come To Legal Settlement", "IHeartMedia to Launch BIN: Black Information Network on Radio, Digital Channels", "NAB Announces Crystal Radio Awards Winners". They played current based hip hop/R&B but it didn't work out. If you thought he had no ego, you were sadly mistaken. [26] Both stations still simulcast core programming like Evening Concert, Luncheon at the Lincoln Center, and Continental Classics. Theo Mizuhara was a radio personality who worked at various radio stations, including KKBT-FM in Los Angeles, California and KMEL-FM in San Francisco, California. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------Mickey Chiu E-mail: mc@svpal.orgThe Funky Yellow Bro mc@scuacc.scu.edu c-mi@hoffman.cc.sophia.ac.jp. It even plays Old School hip hop and soul during the midday mix show "The Twelve O'Clock Throwback Mix", "Funky Fridays" on Friday mornings, and mixed in general during their weekend playlist rotation. "One minute, everything is coolain't nobody trippin', everything is straight. Shortly after he got to KKBT, Theo was offered gigs on MTV, and Brandy and he did the voiceover in the blockbuster hit movie Waiting to Exhale. With the purchase of KSWD by EMF, the feeder source has since moved to what is now KKLQ's HD2 subchannel. As of August 2018, the American cable channel FM now carries an edited video simulcast of the station's morning show, Big Boy's Neighborhood, weeknights and mornings. [20], Chancellor Media (later AMFM Inc.) later purchased Evergreen Media (along with KMEL and KYLD), and AMFM was then swallowed up by Clear Channel Communications via a $24 billion deal in 1999. This profile was gathered from multiple public and On January 14, 1955, KGO-FM moved from 106.1 to 103.7 and today is KOSF . anything else new on this LA radio legend? And then the next minuteyou know, drama," says Quik, soundingflabbergasted as Kool & The Gang's "Summer Madness" begins playing in the background softly. The energy at the station had changed. While some longtime urban contemporary stations in other major cities (like WPGC-FM in Washington D.C. and KPRS in Kansas City) introduced songs typical of what is played on rhythmic radio stations to boost ratings, KMEL programming executives decided not to revert to its rhythmic/urban roots; it remained urban. Screenshot is from Moesha - bruh he is so fine and" - 15 Mar 2023 00:00:04 Either email addresses are anonymous for this group or you need the view member email addresses permission to view the original message, For those of you who are interested in finding out the person behind the, You do not have permission to delete messages in this group. London was somewhat distant and private, and I never had a lot of conversation with him, but I give him credit for completely being himself. "Man, what do you think?" He told me he was going to get a helicopter and fly it over the stations Summer Jam concert. Evergreen patterned the diversity of the station after its then-sister station KKBT in Los Angeles by maintaining a multi-racial staff to ensure KMEL had "No Color Lines" under the new phase of the format. Owned by iHeartMedia, KRRL serves as the flagship for Big Boy's Neighborhood. Reviews help In 1999, Chancellor merged with Capstar and the company became AMFM, Incorporated. Over the past several years, Ross states he has repeatedly been asked where former KKBT and KMEL DJ Theo Mizuhara is. So a lot more rappers were coming up to the station, like Easy E, Ice Cube, Snoop, and others, to support the station on the air that they thought was supporting them. March 14, 2023. Plus, you actually can hear Theo and what he sort of sounds like on the air in the music video for Shanice since he's the radio DJ voice at the beginning of the video. Nonetheless, Quik had a huge part in 2Pac's cleanest album, mixing 14 of the songs forAll Eyez on Me. Theo was my favorite DJ on 92.3FM TheBeat Los Angeles bitd (93~96?). Ross shared. Tre was an excellent jock. His landlord was rumored to have stolen his car which the family demanded back when they came from Chicago to take Captain G back for the services. The HD2 subchannel carries an all-news radio format, utilizing programming from the Black Information Network. , Japan 661 friends 11 reviews He's a real cool guy. Perhaps it was timing. Butta, NWA's founder Dr. Dre and the World Class Wreckin' Cru, Ron "Big Ron" O'Brien, John "Big John" Monds, Kevin "Slow Jammin'" James, and Kevin Nash. [37], Despite Evergreen head Scott Ginsberg telling Radio & Records that KFAC-FM's format would remain in place,[38] industry analysis warned a format change would occur because of the debt incurred in purchasing the station. [18] KMEL re-invented once again by putting Cameron Paul on five nights a week, then doing a live broadcast from San Francisco venue "City Nights". The San Mateo native grew up loving soul music, from the days he heard the Jackson 5 on the radio as a youngster until he started buying hip-hop records himself. KMEL was the first pop station in the U.S. to play "Wild Thing" by Tone-Loc and "Bust a Move" by Young MC and first of any radio station in the country to play "U Can't Touch This" by Oakland rapper MC Hammer and "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice. Hmmm is this guy the same DJ who used to play for SF based radio station,106.1 KMEL??? Los Angeles, CA. Nobuhiro Mizuhara General Manager at Eagle Vines Vineyards and Golf Club Napa, CA Eagle Vines Vineyards and Golf Club Kim Mizuhara Development Director at Crisis Support Services of Alameda. )[74] Another reason for the change was the station's poor ratings performance; KHHT was ranked 14th in the market with a 2.5 share in the January 2015 PPM Nielsen radio ratings. Cook, however, claims his departure was due to his political views, including his having aired statements from California Congresswoman Barbara Lee and rapper Boots of The Coup voicing opposition to the War in Afghanistan. Sometimes Theodore goes by various nicknames including Theodore M Mizukara, Theo Mizuhara, Theodore M Mizuhara and Theodore Mark Mizuhara. Take Me to the Mardi Gras by Bob James (1975) Rockin' to the P.M. by Raw Fusion (1991) is a remix of. "And I can't help but to keep thinking about him. to see possible family members, friends, co-workers, and associates found from multiple government records, social and public sources. In urban radio, we were trained to think that we should be grateful to have ANY job at all in radio because the white stations didnt hire black jocks. "[48] Competing radio stations KPFK and KCRW both aired tribute programming to KFAC,[49][50] and Mount Wilson FM Broadcasters' KKGO-FM announced that it would switch formats to classical in January 1990, with KKGO-FM's existing jazz format moving to KKGO (540AM). KMEL, as of 2012, is one of the last remaining urban contemporary stations on the Mediabase rhythmic panel. She played us and she played us well. We have found fanatics size chart youth SU,F's Musings from the Interweb. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. After our meeting, KKBT sponsored a pool party for one of the last BRE conferences. I saw Mike at an industry event after I was fired and he told me he was going to expose The Beat for being the most racist station in the industry. The Breakfast Club discusses Beyonc taking on the IRS over $2.7M Ebro In The Morning discusses Don Lemons firing and Desiigner getting Ebro Announces TT Torrezs New Show (video). The new owners guided KMEL into its current urban contemporary format, effectively shedding its Top 40 direction for good and refocused now as an R&B station with a strong emphasis on hip-hop. List of programming syndicated by iHeartMedia, List of radio stations owned by iHeartMedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=KRRL&oldid=1149354696, Urban contemporary radio stations in the United States, All articles with bare URLs for citations, Articles with bare URLs for citations from January 2022, Articles with PDF format bare URLs for citations, Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 11 April 2023, at 18:16. Can't have everything I guess - but this car is the car I've wanted since I was 12, and now I have it. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. It was a great lesson I will never forget. The station's branding as "106 KMEL" remained in place for many years.[17]. Free Your Mind (Theo's Rec and Wreck Edit) (1992) by En Vogue feat. Digital and Radio Facts Outside of pure talent and extremely good looks, I have no idea how I got in (laugh). None of the demands benefited the black men unjustly fired from the station. Do you know an interesting fact or story about this track? Tony Farmer is an American former professional basketball player who was born on January 3, 1970, in Dayton, Ohio. I knew my days were numbered at that point. It is believed that KKBT was inspired by KMEL and KDAY. 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