[BC] Larry King On Mutual

[Tom Dimeo]

You are correct about Larry King.  He was on live from 
midnight till 5:30 eastern time.  Tony Roberts would come in 
do a sports report about 5:20 and apparently Larry would fall 
asleep during the report because Tony would always tell him 
to wake up and stay with him.

Larry claims to have been the first overnight network radio 
program but that isn't correct.  Before him was Long John 
Nebel and before him was the Nitecap program with Herb Jepko, 
both on Mutual.  When Larry was questioned about it he would 
say well, the others were doing a program in New York and 
Salt Lake City respectively and Mutual just carried them.

Tom Dimeo

Harrisburg Pennsylvania

** Original Message From: Rob Atkinson **
>BTW, I'm no Larry King expert, but I recall that around 25 
>years ago, he seemed to own the overnight, with a show on 
>Mutual that was carried on hundreds of stations.  This was 
>before Limbaugh, Art Bell, et al., and L.K. on CNN.   I 
>thought it was pretty damn good radio, and I'm under the 
>impression he showed that a daily nationwide satellite feed 
>talk show could work on commercial AM (for good or il).