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- The Los Angeles Daily News reports that talk radio personality Tom Leykis has ended production of his internet talk show and is retiring from the business.
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When Leykis's show went off the air in 2009, he was in the middle of a five-year contract with CBS. This contract included the rights to his show over terrestrial radio, internet rights, and specific to airing on KLSX; this kept Leykis from appearing on any other CBS station.
Jun 18, 2024 · Longtime Los Angeles talk radio host Tom Leykis is stepping away from his internet-based show, calling it a career. The former KFI AM-640 host also spent time in L.A. on then KMPC 710 and also on the hot talk formatted KLSX during his long tenure in the City of Angels.
- BNM Staff
Jun 18, 2024 · June 18, 2024. Tom Leykis has been working since he was 14. I first heard him when he joined the all-new, all-talk KFI (640 AM) in 1988; Leykis was among the first group of hosts when the station dropped music, and was firmly established as the “liberal voice” of the station by the time syndicated conservative talker Rush Limbaugh arrived.
It’s entire archive from when he returned in 2012 until May 2024 when he ended that was behind a paywall has been taken offline. Leykis had to take it down because it would cost $10,000 a year in libel insurance.
Jun 17, 2024 · The details escape me, but Leykis left the station in 1992. Two years later, he found himself on KMPC (now KSPN 710 AM) as one of the star attractions of the new 710 Talk.
- Richard Wagoner
Jun 18, 2024 · The Los Angeles Daily News reports that talk radio personality Tom Leykis has ended production of his internet talk show and is retiring from the business. Los Angeles-based Leykis served for years with then-CBS Radio’s talk KLXS-FM before the company dropped the talk format, which led to Leykis forming his The New Normal Network in…
Apr 1, 2014 · Suddenly, in February 2009, as a result of a format change at his home station, KLSX in Los Angeles, Tom Leykis went from having hundreds of thousands of fans to radio silence overnight. To this day, many Leykis fans believe that he simply disappeared for good.
