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Article: KLAC SHEDS TALK FORMAT, WILL SWITCH TO STANDARDS.(U)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- November 15, 2002
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Byline: Fred Shuster Staff Writer
KLAC-AM (570) will soon shut up and just play the music.
The station, radio home to the Los Angeles Lakers and midmorning host Michael Jackson, is set to unveil a retooled standards format that suggests a musical martini of contemporary and classic artists from Dean Martin to Norah Jones.
The new KLAC debuts Dec. 12, which happens to be Frank Sinatra's birthday. The public is invited to a kickoff that day at the Museum of TV & Radio in Beverly Hills where a Sinatra-in-Vegas documentary will be screened.
KLAC program director Brad Chambers said the on-air talent lineup was still in development, but ...