Wow. That's horrible news. The end of an era. I would rather listen to a half-hour of "Night Beat" any evening instead of KNX's bizarre cycle of news, weather, sports and "Focus on the Family."

Thank goodness.

--Kynn

too bad-- as a kid those broadcasts did me well, when the lights were supposed to be out and the TV off. It's a lost art, but it was a good run while it lasted!

NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

This is the WORST NEWS I've had ALL WEEK!!! I am NEVER listening to KNX again as LONG AS I LIVE!!! And I stopped donating to KPCC when they cancelled "Same Time Same Station." What is wrong with these idiots?

this is sad news—I really enjoyed hearing Gunsmoke, Jack Benny and old Dragnets in the middle of the night...

but to my mind an even more annoying development are the new station IDs—a bed of boomer musical favorites (the one I've heard the most uses Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth"), one-word copy ("Information") and ending with a portentous, whispered "KNX (pause) "Los Angeles." Almost as bad as the KCRW promos screened at Laemmle theaters.

George Nicholaw (KNX GM) knows what he's doing. LA radio's single worst problem is that there is no overnight newes. Let's hope they can put a reporter in a car and cover the graveyard.

George Nicholaw may know what he's doing, but he's not doing it for KNX. He was fired in October. That was the precursor to this change.

Damn. I loved that stuff. I don't suppose there's any way to start a movement to bring it back.

you could turn the lights off and see it all in your mind. it was a great break from the crap you SEE on TV. Let's hope some other radio station picks up the radio dramas.

what surprised me was how long it took for the new owners to make the change.

I moved away from SoCal three years ago. Honestly, the only thing I missed was the Drama Hour on KNX.

And now...

One more thing...

If you visit the KNX web site (seems redesigned) and click on the "Drama Hour" link at the top (it's still there), you can read their lame excuse for the decision (amongst the important news stories that need more coverage are the supermarket and LA transit strikes), and leave a comment about it.

Have at it.

Too bad.

How is that I can so violently disagree with Kynn on even this? Is this really a liberal/conservative issue?

And I thought the blogosphere was supposed to be fuzzing the lines between left and right...

I'm pretty shocked that so many people listened to those shows. Or did they really? I liked knowing they were there, but to be honest even if I was in the car at the time they were on, KNX was about button push number 10 for me. "Romance of the Ranchos" was a favorite. So hokey it was almost camp, but it appealed to my history buff side.

I can not believe that you would do away with the only hour that lets you use your imagination.
If there is a vote taken i opt. for bringing the drama hour back right now.

Lane m. hartman

Why would you do away with a success,everybody loved it.It was the only reason my bedroom radio
stood on KNX.

Having lived for decades in the shadow of the KNX transmitter tower in Torrance, I am thinking, what in the mad, mad, mad, mad world the new "geniuses" who now control the station are thinking. The Drama Hour made the station distinctive, in contrast with the drivel that spews out the the 640, 790, 870 etc. talk stations. Conservative drug addicts, screaming lawyers, a guy who assumes the call letters of the station he works for (Mark Germain). Well, I guess I'll be listening to Conway & Steckler uninterrupted now.

I have listened to the drama hour since I was a kid. I remember my dad introducing me to the programs on the way home from fishing trips after work, sneaking my radio to bed every night and getting terrified by the black museum and listening to the shows with my wife once I was married while we did dishes together. I am very sad to see it go, and very disappointed in the changes the new management is making. I generally listen to KNX for news during the day, but I have removed 1070 / 980 from my presets in my own personal protest. I don't need another 24hr new channel.

Bring back o.t.radio aSAP. THANKS, FDL

I am 22 years old. When I was 8 years old my parents gave me a stuffed Lassie for Christmas which was also an AM Radio. That very night I listened to the Drama Hour, and I have (had) been listening ever since. It really saddens me that my children (and other children) won't have the opportunity to discover the treasure that is Old Time Radio, the way I did. I don't listen to FM radio, so when I'm in the car, I'd listen to KNX. Those days are now over. If you listen at 10 PM, you will most likely hear the same "news" reports that were played during the 10 AM hour. The only reason why I listened to KNX, was because of the Drama Hour, but now not only will I not listen, but neither will the rest of my family.

They should have just moved it to KFWB.

Don't let KNX drop the Drama Hour unnoticed. Even if they don't bring it back, kick KNX where it hurts with a convenient e-mail to their advertisers. Tell them KNX has lost your ear and gambled with their advertising dollars! Get a full list of KNX's advertisers at KNX Revolt! at

http://knxrevolt.blogspot.com/

My wife and I have listened to the drama hour for 20 years. Its our link to childhood gathering around the old Zenith. Surly the ad revenues can generate profit for the station. Please bring the show back. PS I even bought a directional antenna to pull the signal into Albuquerque. High powered Mexican station was right on top.

Add my wife and I to the list who are upset with KNX for dropping the Drama Hour. (and I was just looking forward to taking their poll for new additions to the schedule!)

I would heartily urge all fans to contact them and let KNX management know your feelings. I am also planning on contacting their advertisers to let them know our displeasure.

Maybe if we all are persistent, we can turn this unfortunate decision around.

I feel sorry for the Advertisers because now I imagine there are only 1-2 listeners left.

With the ability to get news from the internet, television, even cell phones, without special things like the Drama Hour, there is no incentive to listen to KNX anymore.

Am I the only one who prefers news to overacting and poorly witten dialogue?

The readio show only took two hours, non consectutive, every night and during states of emergencies could be cancelled. I don't see why they have to take it off the air. If anyone wants to start a petion http://www.petitiononline.com/ will host it for free. I'm just not articulate enough to express it, but I'll sign any movement to get the "drama hour" back on the air.

All radio stations give you the news on the hour
every hour !!!
My five Brothers and our wifes will sure miss
The drama hour,All our friends knew when it was
9am or 2 pm,because the Pappas boys would start
their drive home to hear the drama hour

BAD MOVE !!!! Please put back the KNX radio dramas IMMEDIATELY. If not sooner. Start over at the beginning and run through the whole lot again.

Thank you, very much.
Long Time Listener
Sacramento, CA

Here is a copy of email I sent to KNX I don't think they care how much we want it back - They said if I want to hear Old Time Radio I can listen to it online....

Please bring back the DRAMA HOUR. I have listened to it daily for many, many years and enjoyed it very much. We are drowning in 24/7 news and it was so nice to have something else to listen to. I am so tired of having the same stories exploited over, and over again just to fill in the news time.

Lee Fulkman

What a loss it it to KNX. You have just lost me as a listener. Not all Radio Drama lovers come in all ages. I am in my thirties. You have lost a great thing. Please bring it back.

Bad decision. No excuse.for it. The drama hour is
radio history. Old time radio made radio what it is today. It's back to 980 for me

KNX - You have lost another listener. This was the only really good thing about another news station. Hope you can come to your senses & bring this program back!

KNX lost me too since they stopped the DH. The DH was such a welcome break from the drone of news that was regurgitated every hour. And didn't you always roll your eyes when they announced yet another "award" for their broadcasting? They got this because the put out more watts than any other s. CA news station!

I'll only listen now to get a read on their advertisers so I can tell them that I no longer will listen to KNX unless they bring back the DH. Hey, why don't we all give Larry at Sit N' Sleep a call? It's clear he's a heavy advertiser with them. We can all say "KNX is "killin' meeeeee...".

Yes, I'm boycotting the sponsors, including Larry Miller (Seely, Serta, Spring-Air, Sterns & Foster, Miralux, and Chatham & Wells)! I'm even breaking off my weekly treatments for sweaty palms, terminating my discrete mail order Viagra shipments, and withdrawing my services as a medical research subject (difficult as it may be to relinquish the free medical exams and up to $375 in cash).

They say eliminating the drama hour improves the station, but I have a different opinion. Do they want to hear from me, though? Not any more. We need George Nicolau back!

Dropping the Drama Hour from KNX schedule is the worst mistake they could have made. I have removed KNX 1070 from my radio station buttons and if I want news, I'll tune into KFWB. Are you all aware that KSUR 1260 AM now has the DH? It's on at 8 p.m., unfortunately, because it is still an early prime time on TV. Wish they would move it to 9:00 p.m.

I agree with the majority. I was a devoted listener to KNX and mainly because of their drama hour. I am sure that their ratings will go down since they dropped it along with George Nicholaw. The reason the station gained all those 'awards' they brag about so much, was due to the format George set forth and maintained. Infinity had lost their mind when they changed things. I am happy to learn that K-SUR will be handling the drama hour, now I will set my radio to 1260 instead of 980 or 1070. Anyone know what station George moved to?

The new management at KNX has made some dunderheaded decisions. They have eliminated editorials. They have reduced the amount time of the hourly CBS news. They have begun endorsing, through their employees' scripts, their advertisers' products. And they have given us the new "breathless" and "dramatic" spot promos. But dumping The Drama Hour was just plain dumb as dogdirt!

Of course, what could be expected of a boneheaded ownership that would rid itself of a such a Los Angeles news legend as George Nicholaw?

Really miss the Drama Hour. So long KNX. Really miss the Lone Ranger. But I won't miss KNX

Below is copy of email I sent to KNX:

Hello, I strongly disagree with your decision to cancel the drama hour. As a result, I've stopped listening to KNX. I have no problem getting 24 hour news, but old time radio is no longer available to me unless I pay for it? Please reconsider at least broadcasting Jack Benny on Saturdays, I cant imagine it would impact your station to broadcast old time radio 1-2 hours per week. Please let me know when you start rebroadcasting any old time radio and I'll tune in again. Thanks for your time.

I just blogged about the KNX thing, and their cheery jingle being replaced with something right out of a Terminator movie:

http://www.brianstorms.com/archives/000225.html

It is a shame that KNX has done this. I've listened since childhood. I'm 32 now. I'll visit the advertisers. I've already notified KNX that I will no longer be tuning in. Thanks everybody for your posts. Keep them coming.

Thanks Viacom / Infinity. No room on KFWB, KROQ, KRTH, KTWV, KTLX or KCBS for radio drama, either? Doesn't KNX run essentially the same material during 2100-2200 as during 2000-2100 and 2200-2300? Maybe you should have expanded radio drama into your other assets instead of replacing uniqueness with more redundancy.

Gee, I just sent an e-mail to KNX blasting them for removing the drama hour. I hadn't even read all these other comments saying the same thing. So, I haven't been alone during these past 20 years I've been listening. I don't even know if I can get KSUR in South Orange County. I'll try tonight. What a disappointment. My bedroom radio will also be tuned to a different station from now on!

You should send a note to KNX on their drama hour page. The automated reply tells you that it is now available on another station, but then says it's KSUR at 1230 AM (Of course it's at 1260 AM)

This is yet another example of the ebbing credibility of this once-respected station

Perhaps Infinity's was most insulting to Southern California with its initial rationale (read: bald faced lie) that dropping the Drama Hour was necessary because of the fires and the need to provide the Inland Empire with news!

Instead of sending your complaints to KNX (they are just the messengers), it would be better to write;
Mr. John Sykes
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Infinity Broadcasting
1515 Broadway, 46th Fl.
New York, New York 10036

Incidently, KSUR does NOT broadcast old time radio dramas. There is simply no similarity to OTR. But do you really think that Infinity/KNX really cares, or were they just trying to deflect the heat?

I too will really miss those old radio shows. They were great when you were out camping and sitting around the fire. You could tune them in for an hour of great entertainment then climb into the ol' sleeping bag. Thanks for that address Buster;(Mr. John Sykes) I'll write him right now!

Fires are out....bring back the radio hour and give us a break from hearing the same trivial news bites over and over and over......

A terrible decision, my favorite non sports program was the drama hour.

I want it back..nuff said..

No more KNX for me either! Let me know if you guys get smart.

No old time radio on KNX ? What possible reason is there to listen to KNX? Many stations broadcast news! I've already changed the buttons on my radio.

I started listening to old-time radio drama in 1949 when I couldn't even read yet. I stayed with it until near the end around 1960. What a joy to get an hour a day on the internet (without the commercials old or new). I taped them and listened during the long boring rounds of the track for health purposes. Shows I don't think I had access to when I was a kid or don't remember. Nightbeat, Have Gun Will travel, Frontier Gentleman for example. Well-written stuff. Sure there are lots of shows available on the internet, but the Mediabay-based KNX selections were well-programmed and and had good sound. I didn't realize until reading this blog that you got to vote on the selections. I would have asked for more anthology shows for a little variety. Anyway it's a great loss and probably doesn't help the bottom line at Mediabay which has a vast library of programs. Infinity is still doing it at WBBM in Chicago with When Radio Was, so why not LA?
It appears the fires, etc. is just an excuse and they were planning it anyway. A barrage of responses at their website can't hurt. I've put in mine. Cleveland.

I am so sorry to hear the news. I started listening to the Drama hour when I was kid. Always looked forward to it. I moved from So Cal in 2000 that was one of the things I missed along with friends and family. It will be truely missed..mls

I remember my shock tuning in to KNX on November 1 at 9:00 to hear of the Drama Hour's cancellation. Something just died inside me--I've been listening to Drama Hour and Mystery Theater since the 1970s. My son and I started listening together to them at bedtime when he was four years old, and nine years later this is still our nightly routine. I have been buying a large library of OTR on MP3 cds (eBay has lots of sellers), so we can still listen to OTR on the computer. But I always loved and listened to the Drama Hour. KNX used to be a unique as a news show, emphasizing that there is much more to life and human interest than simply 24/7 news reports. Sadly, the old KNX character is changed beyond repair, and with it the need to set my radio to it. KNX and its audience are all poorer for this short-sighted decision. A great pity.

As a happy senior citizen, I recalled many of the original old radio broadcasts. What a joy it was to still get tingles from the Inner Sanctum door and laugh with the Shadow....It is a shame that KNX made such a poor decision...I am wondering when Howard Stern will air on KNX...he certainly makes the news! Sad. Sad. :-(

I also sent an email to KNX, but I have not heard back from them:

To Whom it May Concern:

I am very disappointed to see that KNX has discontinued the Drama Hour. I am a 23-year-old graduate student who first discovered old-time radio on KNX at the age of 14. Many of my friends also encountered old-time radio on KNX, and perhaps countless others listeners did as well. I feel the shows that KNX faithfully rebroadcast for these many years have enriched my life and given me a broader perspective of the world. After all, shows that broadcast during WWII and Pearl Harbor are certainly relevant to contemporary times of the war in Iraq and 9/11.

KNX has been re-broadcasting these old-time radio programs for almost thirty years (many of the programs were originally broadcast on KNX during the '30s, '40s, and '50s, and are a staple of KNX's tradition and heritage, and even perhaps a pivotal point in an ever-changing world. I am sure the decision to cancel the drama hour was a difficult one that was necessary, but you can chock this message up as a defense of the drama hour, which I hope will someday return to enrich the lives of listeners like me.

Preempting the drama hour I can see as necessary in a time of crisis, such as the devastating southland fires, but canceling it seems an unnecessary evil.

Yours truly,
Michael Opsteegh

it is sad they stopped it.

i just got back here and i did listen usually 3-4 nights a week.
now that i am disabled, i just drive around and visit various spots in S Cal. the 2 am was what i heard. quiet, no traffic.

hope this link to KSUR is correct.

we wiill see.

night traveller

For many years our family has enjoyed listening to the KNX Drama Hour. Seven nights a week. I raised two children with that era of clean and enjoyable entertainment.
What better way to coax them into bed a 9:00 PM than to listen to Charlie McCarthy, Jack Benney, Lone Ranger, Fibber, Gildersleeve, etc.

I live in Klamath FAlls, OR. and we got the Drama Hour here very clear. We travel to the LA Basin several times a year and your marketing has not fallen on deaf ears.

It would be good if you could re-consider. It's more than simply the end of an era. As we lived in Fresno, Ca. . .Sacramento, Ca. . .Grass Valley, Ca. . . It was a great source of fun, entertainment, and history.

Thanks for all the years of Excellent Entertainment. If you do reconsider, you have many regular listeners in Northern Calif and Southern Oregon.
Bill Callaway

My palms get sweaty and I start jonesin' for my Jack Benny fix every Saturday night. I was hooked on KNX and told all my friends about the station just for the Drama Hour.
I listened every night but have since taken the station off all of my radios' presets. I can get the news from a million sources but could only get old radio shows from one. Hopefully the station will see the error of its ways

I am as I have read the other Posts, I have had my radio tuned to KNX from day one when the Old Time Radio Shows Started, put it back on bad move I no longer listen to KNX!

I e-mailed several damning comments to KNX for dropping the drama hour. I suggested getting everyone from AARP (and i'm only 34!) to boycott KNX AND ITS ADVERTISERS unless it brought back the drama hour. NOW i hear for Christmas they are going to do a 2 hour re0broadcast of the 1969 moon lamding! WHAT A JOKE! KSUR 1260 here in L.A does a drama hour similar to KNX's old one 8-9.

Good news! Forget KNX-I have. Ksur or Ksurf as it is called, now has three hours of radio drama weekdays (When Radio Was: 8-9pm; Drama Hour, formerly Knx Drama Hour: 9-10pm; Imagination Theater, great newtime Radio Drama:10-11pm). The Drama Hour is repeated at 2am just like it was on KNX.

The Week-end Schedule is great ("Jack Benny" and "The Great Gildesleeve" on Saturday, 9-10pm & 2am and, on Sunday,the "New Twilight Zone" with Stacey Keach:8-9pm: Drama Hour "Lux Radio Theater: 9-10pm, and 2am.

One Last thing: KSUR is at 1260am Radio in Beverly Hills and 540am from San Diego. I'm in West Hollywood and I listen to whichever one gives me the best reception. I go back and forth. The only program you can't listen to on 540am is "Imagination Theater". I think that's because KFMB in San Diego airs the Show in San Diego on week-ends and probably has an exclusive.

Hope this info helps. Knx is giving out the 1260am call letters for KSUR, but not 540am from San Diego. Between the two stations they might cover all of Southern Cal. and we in L.A. can get both.

Here in San Diego, I can get KSL 1160am (Salt Lake City). They have Stan Frebergs' "When Radio Was" on from 10 - 11p. I have removed KNX from all of my presets.

Radio Loger (streaming audio) broadcasts an "old time" new soap twice a day and they also air old time radio shows randomly during the day along with mostly pop music.

these morons at knx take the cake. why would anyone today at his home with 24/7 news channels and the internet turn on am radio at 9pm or 2am? the drama hour thats why! these simpleton idiots dont get it. the station in itself is insignificant now. I have actually waited up at 2 am to catch a missed show!! why in hell would anyone now wait around at 2 am to turn on a recorded station that never ever updates it's news until hours after the fact? you pissed off over 100,000 people!
ps/I have never listened to knx again since they dropped the shows. It was first in my presets. I took it off and will never listen again.

Just to give lie to KNX's duplicitous proclamation that it needed to be an "all-news" station, 24 hours a day, just think:
--now they broadcast a cooking show from 8 to noon on Saturday and Sunday (complete with dumb music)
--now they broadcast a "tech talk" show from noon to 3 on Saturday and Sunday
--incessant "traffic reports" take up at least 10 minutes an hour (4 hours a day or 17% of the time)

Ad infinitum ad nauseum. For decades, KNX was a great and respected radio station. Now, it has lost all credibility.

George Nickolaw, Southern California misses you terribly!

KNX has lost a huge audience all over the west. I have been listening to the Drama Hour since it was CBS Radio Mystery Theater in the late 1970's. Certainly KNX will lose rating points, but beyond that, it has pulled the plug on a true cultural institution.

Surely the KNX higher-ups realized that there was a huge spillover of people who tuned in for the Drama Hour and stayed tuned in for the rest of the evening, and in Southern California, throughout the day. Drama Hour listeners were very loyal, an audience no station can afford to lose.

It seems beyond hope that the people who made this decision will see the error of their ways, but unless and until the Drama Hour returns, I WILL NOT listen to KNX.

I wrote KNX that since they were dropping the drama hour for greater news coverage, that I supposed they were also dropping sports also. (ha ha)

I was so bummed out when I heard that the radio shows had been taken off the air that I wrote to KNX and told them that I was not going to listen to them until they brought them back......I did not have to worry thanks to KSUR!!!!!

I got XM Radio for Christmas. It's wonderful.
Channel 164 plays classic radio shows 24/7.
The radio cost $99 and the subscription is $10 per month. It is soooo worth it. I have no need
to listen to KNX ever again. Check it out at
xmradio.com

For those who are able to receive KSUR 1260 and 540 AM here is their 9-10pm and 2-3am weekly schedule:
Sun: Lux Radio Theater
Mon: The Saint - Suspense
Tues: Have Gun, Will Travel - The Adventures of Philip Marlowe
Wed: Burns and Allen - Fibber McGee and Molly
Thurs: Phil Harris/Alice Faye - Johnny Dollar
Fri: Gun Smoke - The Whistler
Sat: Jack Benny Show - The Great Gildersleeve

Getting rid of the old radio programs was the dumbest idea KNX ever had. Al-Qaeda must be behind this.

What a silly decision to discontinue the Drama Hour on KNX. I listened nightly for many, many years. I will never again tune my radio to KNX.

I kept hoping KNX would change it's mind. What a bad decision. Thanks to those whose posts here have offered alternatives for those of us who love radio drama.

Sadly, KNX’s decision to remove the drama-hour is so indicative of the media industries’ needless pandering to the youth market and inability to care for anything more than 20 minutes prior.

Are you all aware that KSUR has the two OTR programs online on demand daily (the previous night's the next day as with KNX)?

What is KSUR's web address?

Bad Call !!! KNX you have got to be kidding. This is a test right ? to see how many complaints you receive due to this mock canncellation right ?. I just got my son interested in radio as a whole new medium to him and wammy you pull the plug. Another L.A instatution bites the dust. Our favorite was "DRAGNET". What a shame now he'll be on that damn computer an extra hour. Thanks a bunch boys.

Try this URRL:
http://www.1260thesurf.com/DramaHour.htm

Yes it would be nice to be able to sit down at the radio or have it in the car. [Yes, there is SIRIUS AND XM] BUT... Try radiospirits.com and many other sites for on demand and downloadable and replay of other otr radio shows. Try ccrane.com for an FM transmitter that will take your streams from the computer to any radio in the house.

When I was a young lad growing up in Los Angeles, I remember listening to the drama hour on radio before falling to sleep. I've enjoyed listening to those recordings for years, just as we have enjoyed the repeats of "I Love Lucy" and other early television. There were excellent writers who created outstanding programs for the audience. It's a loss for KNX in both programming and audience support. Let's hope KSRF can gain the many listeners that are looking for worthwhile entertainment.

what is wrong with CBS! First the Drama hour now I found out they are pulling Martha Stewarts program! I really think they don't pay any attention to what the public wants!!!

I remember KNX, and I miss it. The poor excuse they offer as news radio, is just more gossip. Losing the Drama Hour isn't the only way they've ruined my favorite station. I guess they don't care. When I write, I just get "form letter" answers telling how lukcy I am to listen to Melinda Lee. Yeah right!

The old time radio drama may not be sophisticated when compared to current broadcast standards. It is, however the last remaining vestage of the theater of the mind.

It is unfortunate that the management of KNX has chosen to become one of the sheep instead of remaining a leader. The drama hour is only one symptom of the new thinking at the top.

I disagree with the first commenter in on this page about the features such as focus on the family because I think sharing positive suggestions in the marketplace of ideas is both valuable and informative but back to the point; Hot shot execs who make poor decisions, often show up in history as nothing more than a flash in the pan. Hey KNX, are you listening or is this forum just a ruse to let people blow off steam so you don't feel the heat?

I am old enough to remember hearing "Old Time Radio" when it was originally broadcast, when our society displayed modesty and decency. It seems like one sector of society is systematically removing all that I feel is worth while, well, my heart tells me this era of fun, intrigue and suspense of "Old Time Radio" will resurface for all to enjoy. In the meantime, I have discontinued listening to KNX.

KNX...just one more victim of the growing radio monopoly game. the drama hour was one breath of fresh air in a sea of ranting "personalities" and the endless stream of depressing news that is southern california's night-time radioscape. with companies like clear channel and infinity devouring every station they can, it is not long before there will be one radio station broadcasting nothing but commercials on every wavelength. i also submit that KFI640's decision to move the coast to coast AM show from it's 10 pm slot all the way back to 1 am is also a rotten move. in a market as large as southern california, why is the listening audience the last thing the broadcasters care about? oh yeah, i forgot...no neilsen boxes on our radios.
join me in boycotting KNX and KFI both.
thanks for the soapbox! :)

the "radio hour" has also been picked up by KSRF AM 540, the 'sister station' of KSRF AM 1260.

You may receive 1 station's signal better than the other.

Also, the KSRF old radio broadcasts have actually been better than what KNX had evolved into. How many times can you listen to the same episode?? How about rebroadcasting some of the hour-long dramas?

Having just moved from Burbank to Oregon last summer, I had no idea KNX had cancelled the Drama Hour or that George Nicholaw had left. I was the ultimate KNX junkie. I listened in my car, at night, and on weekends. For them to change it, is as nutty as KFI removing April Winchell - the woman who made me almost piss myself laughing on the 10.

I began listening to old time radio heavily in 1998, after moving to California. In those first few months adjusting to the West Coast it was always helpful to know that I could turn on KNX at 9 pm or 2 am and hear X Minus One or Nightbeat - nothing in the world like Frank Lovejoy's voice!

At first, LA seemed like a faraway, glamorous place from my grandmother's old kitchen in Allied Gardens, San Diego. It would always be kind of startling when someone like Carlos Cayvar would break in with news of a fire, a shooting or worse in LA. Later I really appreciated being able to turn to KNX and hear people editorialize about local politics, or follow the Business Hour.

In fact, I became such a fan that I now sell old time radio CDs through the web. Having said that, there is still something wonderful about hearing old time radio broadcast through a radio, and most of us who now sell old time radio owe stations like KNX for turning us onto our passion, especially if we weren't there to experience the Golden Age. There was even a B&B called, I think, Maplewood Farm, up in New Hampshire, that broadcast old time radio on their own mini-radio transmitter, so that their patrons could listen at night.

Anyway, I want to let you folks also know that there's a site, Old-Time.com, which is NON COMMERCIAL. It's run by a man named Lou Genco who's been at it a long time. There is a textfile available at the site which lets you know what radio stations in the United States and Canada play old time radio. "Imagination Theater" is only one of many radio drama shows that are being produced today - often called "New Time Radio". Hopefully, those of us who still love OTR and radio drama will all keep at it and maybe KNX will come around again.

My self I have never listened to KNX. But a friend of mine has for twenty years. He has no computer, and has asked if I would write something in his behalf. I asked him what he would like for me to write? He said tell them that I'm devastaded that he has been a devoted listener for twenty years now. My self I think it's terrible for all the long time listeners it would be like losing a long time friend. He's pretty saddened by it all. Thank you for allowing me to write in my friends behalf.

My self I have never listened to KNX. But a friend of mine has for twenty years. He has no computer, and has asked if I would write something in his behalf. I asked him what he would like for me to write? He said tell them that I'm devastaded that he has been a devoted listener for twenty years now. My self I think it's terrible for all the long time listeners it would be like losing a long time friend. He's pretty saddened by it all. Thank you for allowing me to write in my friends behalf.

Well this is my second try to post a comment. My self I am not a KNX listener.I am writing on the behalf of a friend that doesn't have a computer.He was a devoted listener for twenty years. I asked him what he wuold like for me to write. He told me to tell them that he is devastated.

One reader of this comment line asked me for more specifics on finding KSUR online. Here is what I told him:
and I urge others to contact the station and request more information online about the station's lineup and to show daily content as KNX did and post this online and change the programs daily. The last pair have been on for over a week.
albert

Yes here are some relevant URL's. Suggest you also request that they post content in advance as was done in the past by KNX
this will give you the links to the daily (not always changed daily) programs in WMA 64 kbs (nice sound usually):
http://www.1260thesurf.com/DramaHour.htm
this is the main page:
http://www.1260thesurf.com/
this has phone numbers (incl. an 800):
http://www.1260thesurf.com/Contact%20Us.htm
and this is a guest book where you can fill in comments online:
http://www.1260thesurf.com/Forms/Guest_Book.asp