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
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.
on Feb 19th, 2009
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.
on Feb 19th, 2009
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~
on Feb 19th, 2009
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 …..
on Feb 19th, 2009
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.
on Feb 20th, 2009
I agree with you Sausage Man, though we need good entertainment and news for drive times, there are more efficient ways to get the same things. Radio has become obsolescent like newspapers and magazines as we can get the same news and information right off the internet the second it’s happening and without being annoyed by commercials.
Tom will have to find another way to acquire a replacement “seven figure salary” and I can just see it now, he and Howard Stern bumping into each other looking for work!
on Feb 20th, 2009
peabody,
that was a good description of radio “comedy stylings” when you used the denigrating “carrot-tops of the radio world”.
Radio as a medium had so much promise to pass time away for people who are alone either driving, or at home or doing some repetitive task that radio OUGHT to relieve.
Instead of radio becoming better to compete with all the handhelds, laptops and desk computers, it appears to be dying by throwing crap at us.
All the good entertainment comes either online or on the TV but there’s nothing portable one can take along that equals radio. Why don’t the owners of radio stations see that they have to improve or die?
on Feb 20th, 2009
Lola, you said it. If you’ve seen the video of him walking in the street with about half-a-dozen guys trailing after him and calling his name and you heard his voice, you would see that the show was all fluff.
He must have used a voice changer because in real life (when he’s not in a studio) he’s got a thin, upper range voice and as to looks, even a street hooker with ALL the STDS wouldn’t take him on as a john.
He’s built like a butterball turkey and must weigh a good 300 lbs yet he is no more than 5′.0″ tall with what looks like a bib made out of flesh is his bulbous, huge chin. His resume says he’s 5′.11″ and I’ve even heard him say that to a woman who called in and asked.
He had lots to say about lots of women but I’d like to hear the real story from his four ex-wives. First he complained about American women, then, after praising Latinas, he had one move in to fold his socks and when she smartened up and realized what all us American women could have told her for nothing and she moved out, he stopped praising South American women.
Let’s face it, no women of any country want poor old, short, fat Tom.
on Mar 5th, 2009
Tom Leykis has been a cancer on society. He is an insensitive person without any moral compass beyond making money and having sex. For years, he ridiculed anybody who made a low salary, no matter how important their role in society. He crapped on everybody from nurses to construction workers, solely on the basis of their earning power (or lack thereof). He endorsed mainstream definitions of “beauty” as defined by the advertisers who control Big Media, and although fatter than an elephant, he loved to abuse anybody he considered to be obese…..all part of his rather pathetic self-hate syndrome. He taught men how to lie and cheat and delighted in their tales of deception, although in a typical double standard, he would excoriate anybody he felt had duped him in any regard.
Now, if there is any Karma in the Universe, he soon will learn just how little demand exists for a deceitful, hate-filled radio babbler in a society that is so very lacking in the people who perform all the REAL work (everything from building roads to treating sewage). Those are the people who should be getting proper remuneration in our society, not some worthless paper pusher on Wall Street or some useless misogynist radio jock.
I am all in favor of men learning how to deal with women, but NOT for treating them like dirtbags. Leykis spewed hate and venom to young generations who desparately NEED to learn tolerance, patience, and appreciation, given that they are so lacking in those particular character traits.
on Mar 6th, 2009
3/5/09 Leykis
Gary Schein, #28, is proof that normal human beings have aspirations that are not about using each other, something that bulbous, old, hideous (using his word) Tom never learned. Tom’s message was that there are women who are as shallow and men should use them as the women are using them.
Presenting yourself as a soured, bitter, horny toad misrepresenting yourself to acquire sex is pathetic and that’s how you would come across, not the way Tom made it sound you would.
There’s a mating dance for each species which Tom thought you could bypass and his solution for a lot of unsuccessful-with-women was to act out his middle-aged, bitter attitude which was the whole basis of Tom’s message and women would be able to see through that immediately.
What he did say that was important and applies to women equally, is get educated, with a career under your belt before you tie yourself down with anyone.
If you don’t care about how you treat another human being, you won’t be cared about; it’s that simple. Tom’s end of life, which he is approaching, is to be alone leaving behind “instructions” to a lot of men who are lost souls how to get further lost.
Tricking someone into having sex eventuates in what? the word getting out and men and women getting even farther apart and more embittered? What kind of legacy is this to hand on to his “sons”? His “seven-figure income” is where, now? Bwahahaha!
Tom’s message was a fantasy. He’s ended up with no salary to keep up his two homes and nobody to give a damn. What he never told these men calling in was that women are not responsible for giving them sex and women know this. Bwahahaha!
on Apr 14th, 2009
“white trash crowed”?
Are you kidding me?