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www.reelradio.com ... One of today's fresh exhibits is a 47-minute-long radio aircheck of Rich Fields on KODJ-FM, L.A., in 1990.
Here's the official description:
The Mike Miles Mega-Collection delivers yet another amazing recording from the road and this time, he caught an Emmy Award winner! Rich Fields on KODJ is great fun and great listening. I was all ready to write an exhibit description about how this jock deserved a better outcome than KODJ — and then I did the research. Ouch. OK! Wowsers.
Rich Fields is heard filling in for Machine Gun Kelly, and he's playing Oldies, Top-40 style, on KODJ-FM. Best guess on the date: June, 1990.
"Imagers" (undoubtedly called something else in 1990) are voiced by Bobby Ocean and the jingles sound great, too. Fields, who was the first DJ on the "new" KODJ oldies format in 1989, is having loads of fun, assisted by in-studio traffic reporter Kelly O'Connell. According to Don Barrett's L.A. Radio People, they both apparently ended their Los Angeles radio careers at 93FM.
Fields went on to several radio gigs in Tampa-St. Petersburg Florida before he returned to CBS in L.A. as weatherman for Channel 2 in 2003. (How appropriate that this aircheck features him poking fun at "big weather ratings"!) In 2004, he was selected to replace the late Rod Roddy as the announcer on The Price Is Right, TV's longest-running game show. Fields is an Emmy Award winner.
