By Craig Fiegener
InstantRiverside.com

Los Angeles-based radio stations KNX (1070AM) and KFWB (980AM) have slashed many of their best-known reporters from their news staffs.

LARadio.com reports that the following reporters are gone, and the list is long:

John Darin, Dirck Morgan, Mike Forest, Lori Kelman, Jennifer Bauman (formerly of Orange County NewsChannel), Chris Sedens, Larry Carroll (formerly of KCBS-TV and KABC-TV), Lonnie Lardner, Sharon Katchen (Orange County Bureau Reporter), Peter Bergman, Dave Adacary, Kimberly Plummer, Fred Peabody, Christina Villacorte, Michael Linder, Laura Ornest, Vicki Cox and Gerry Mulvane.

KFWB-AM also fired news director Andy Ludlum. Both stations are now being led by David G. Hall, formerly of KFI-AM. Hall enjoyed great success in bringing KFI to significant ratings victories in the 1990s, but he has struggled to do the same with the CBS radio properties.

KFWB and KNX are both owned by CBS. The move reportedly follows a corporate mandate to reduce payroll by $1 million.

In other radio news, there are unconfirmed reports that bigger names like Rush Limbaugh and Dr. Laura Schlessinger may leave Los Angeles-based KFI to be carried by other stations in the Southern California radio market.

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Thursday, October 16, 2008

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