The late Joe McDonnell never lost faith when it came to sports-talk radio working in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, some media executives don't feel the same.
I’ll never forget the first time I heard Joe McDonnell’s voice on the radio. My father was driving us around Van Nuys in the spring of 1993 while McDonnell and co-host Doug Krikorian were on KMPC 710 campaigning for Magic Johnson to replace Randy Pfund as the next coach of the Lakers.
With information about the city’s teams confined at that time to the morning newspaper’s sports section and nightly local television news, I was instantly hooked. I listened to McDonnell every day after school and followed him to KMAX 107.1, KWNK 670, XTRA 1150 and KSPN 1110, which would later become ESPNLA 710.
Sports talk radio personalities Joe McDonnell, left, and Doug Krikorian have a little fun outside Staples Center in 2004.. I often think of “Big Joe” — he weighed more than 700 pounds before undergoing gastric bypass surgery in 2004 — whenever a big moment in Los Angeles sports happens. One of our last conversations was on the possibility of the Rams moving back to L.A. He was the host of the postgame show for the last Rams game in L.A. and was hoping they would return to L.A. .
“You need the credibility that comes with living and working in this city for a long time,” he told me. “This is a great sports town with great sports fans and they want to hear someone from their city talk about their teams with the same passion they have. It’s not that complicated.”
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