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CBS radios KLSX drops Adam Corolla and Tom Leykis

Feb 19th, 2009
by Chad.
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LA’s KLSX 97.1 has officially dropped Tom Leykis, Adam Corolla, and Frosty, Heidi, and Frank as the station switches to a Top-40 format dubbed “Amp Radio” that “plays all the hits”.Another casualty of the crappy economy as ad revenue continues to decline and stations can afford to keep top paid radio personalities.

Adam Corolla

Adam Corolla

Rumors started swirling earlier this week, then it was confirmed today that as of tomorrow afternoon, KLSX is going to move to their new format.

According to radio gossip site RadioInsight, the domain names AmpRadioLA.com, Amp971.com, and Amp971fm.com were all registered anonymously on February 9. Amp Radio is a format geared at youth, such as middle to high schoolers. Sounds like this decision was made relatively quickly and comes as a surprise to many considering Corolla had signed a multi-year agreement in 2007, due to incredibly popularity among listeners.

Personally, I’d rather listen to LA’s Kevin & Bean on KROQ, but would switch over occasionally during commercials and songs to hear what Adam Corolla was complaining about. He was a definite 2nd, but I am sure this B radio star will pop up somewhere considering his connections in the biz. As per Leykis, (NSFW)
I think the guy is a douche, catering to the white trash crowed consistently talking about single poor mothers in Seattle. It got very old and fast. My prediction is Tom Leykis will be a local Seattle DJ by 2010. I am eager to see where Frosty, Heidi and Frank land as they were the only talk show with this format on durring the day.

Read an interview with Tom Leykis at the OC Register.

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  • Rick
    Idem on Kevin and Bean...they are the only product of Radio I listen to...Thank God for the iPod!
  • Matthew
    Leykis presented thought in a good manner. It was not for anyone, but hey neither is wine tasting or reading a news paper. Tom is blut but always maintained class. If it offended someone by talking about how a majority of women are but hey thats life and thats how women are.
  • Ricky
    Meh he's a douche. I saw him on Jimmy Kimmel's show once and all he could do was talk about his money, and big house. Good riddance.
  • Ted Newkirk
    Given that Leykis has a contract that pays him through 2012 and given that he was no longer in drive time in Seattle as it is, a Seattle gig is highly unlikely.

    Maybe 7 years ago when he was red-hot in Seattle and was actually thinking of getting a condo up there. But he's since spent huge amounts of money upgrading his Hollywood house and also buying a place in Santa Barbara wine country. He's also wealthy enough to retire many times over.

    For Leykis, I'm guessing that it is something in L.A. or nothing.
  • hXc
    Leykis was at his funniest when trashing the east coast (New York and Boston- no mercy).
    He was one of the only radio personalities that told the truth about what his job was:
    To get the most people to listen and call as possible!
    His financial talk of late was rather sobering as well~
  • doodie
    It was inevitable. You'd have to have been living in a cave to have not seen this coming in the form of fewer commercials - bad sign.

    His shtick is out of place now that America is reassessing itself so he'll have to take his sack 'o fat and try and get hired elsewhere or he will lose his houses.

    I was listening to him on a video and his real voice is pitched higher so I guess it was enhanced when broadcast out of the studio. It was quite a sight seeing this ball o' fat who didn't know how to speak to his adoring fans who were about six males following him in the street. Say, where were all those "chicks" in the picture? Not saying anything mind you but he did not look like chick meat to me .....
  • Benjaminz
    As Tom always says, you can have a face that was made for radio and still get hot chicks if you're dragging a big sack of cash. The color of 'Chick Meat' is green.
  • doodie
    Hey, Ben, You missed my point. I will repeat what I said and be more pointed this time. Apparently, I was being too subtle.

    In the video of him walking in the street and he can hardly walk, he's so fat and is inthe shape of a ball, not a human being. His ONLY adoring fans were MEN. Do you get it now? There were no chicks in sight. Since he claims to be a magnet because of his wealth, where the hell were the women? All who were yelling out to him and following him were just a group of pathetic men one of whom called out lamely, "take me out with...." There's no woman would go to bed with him. You may have seen pictures of him but they were when he was 100 lbs. lighter and he was way overweight then. Even cayeesh wouldn't make him look attractive. Gold diggers have their pride, too.
  • Matt
    How the hell are you the first thing that pops up on Google? " I think he's a douche." NIce. and here's thought, buy stock in Sirus, because what is it, a nickel. I think Leykis may come on board, and there are some things they could do to change it. If they would have just signed off after Stern, a lot more people would have paid for it I believe, but they had a pretty damn good consolation.

    I personally would rather listen to Leykis talk about the woman reaching their expiration date, and how why he date an old high school flame if he can afford their daughter, and other favorites, opposed to paying to hear high pitch Eric eat fast food for a couple of days, and then poop in a bucket and weigh it. The show was all over the board, and ALL talk radio gets monotonous at one point, that's why you have music and books on cd and lotion in the car. Do something else for a while if you are in the car a lot. But if Sirius had Leykis and Stern and give Denis Leary a show and a few million and you had an option to listen to archives as well as live, I'd buy that the day it came out, or they joined.

    KEvin and Bean, I think, are on that channel that I turn as fast as I hear their voices, as I do when they play Alice in Chains and deep tracks off the first Bush album.
  • Samual
    Say what you will about Tom, but he'll have more money than I'll ever have. He deserves all of it! Gives out great advice to guys, although most dumb assess fail to listen.

    You will be missed Tom.
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