Bob Buchmann

Monday - Friday: 3:00 PM - 7:00 PM

It was 1974, soldering iron in hand, when I built a 100 watt AM station in my basement so I could be right next to my hero, Don Imus, on the local dial. After a knock on my parents’ door from the FCC (my mother freaked!), I went legit, converting the pirate AM station into the first mass-distributed cable-only radio station. That plug got pulled when it was time for college in Ithaca, New York. I worked for a bunch of small Long Island and Ithaca stations, and 1 week after graduation in 1979, I got a big break to try to bring WBAB/Long Island from the bottom to the top of the ratings. When I got there, I remember the night-time DJ tracking entire 3 Dog Night albums "because he liked them". Later for him. We assembled a great staff and by 1981 we beat WNEW-FM and WLIR in the L.I. Ratings. By 1983, we over-threw the #1 rock station, WPLJ. By 1985, we were #1 in the market...all persons 12 and over! Not bad for a bunch of hoodlums. In 1999, after 20 years and a couple days, I left my post as WBAB VP/Programming to join Q104.3 in New York City. It was always my dream to program a New York station, and Q104.3's ratings were pretty poor. (I think #23 overall and #14 in Adults) Our theory on winning was pretty simple: program the music and conversation TO the listeners, as told BY the listeners. So we decided to deliver New Yorkers their favorite classic rock tunes...mixed with some of the great, deep cuts off the studio backwall. Now it’s time to rock Southern California on the legendary 95.5 KLOS! Everyone has been so welcoming, and I LOVE it here. Good God, between the weather and the scenery, how can I ever go back to New York? KLOS started rocking 40 years ago, in 1969. This is no flash in the pan, band-wagon jumping radio station! One mission over 4 decades: to rock! You can count the number of stations in America who share that with KLOS on one hand. Your support of rock on the radio has brought us to the top of the Arbitron Ratings...THANK YOU! As I write this late in 2009, we’re top 5 among ALL people in LA, top 2 among Adults and #1 in Adult Men. I’m the station’s Program Director, so please consider me your Listener Advocate. Email Me Here

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