Loos (pronounced “los”) & Ro - January 19, 2006
For those Hip Hop fans living in Los Angeles, you know about the legend of KDAY. The station was the first prominent radio station to play Hip Hop back in the 1980’s. It was taken off of the air in 1991, but it resurfaced in 2005.
One of the main figures on it’s resurgence was Chris Loos. I can’t go into specific details, but let’s just say that the station resurfacing may not have happened without this guy.
He became the mid-afternoon jock and his show producer was Ro Blvd. Since the station was in it’s infancy, it didn’t have an actual home to broadcast out of so they rented out space at a building that housed most of the Spanish Language stations in Los Angeles. The space was really small, the janitors would never clean the place and most of the equipment would occasionally go out. But these guys made the most of it. I filmed their interviews with Goapele, Sean Paul, Trina, Tha Dogg Pound, Vida Guerra, Mike Epps, John Witherspoon, and Mister Cartoon among many others.
This image gives me flashbacks to those days. All three of us became very good friends to this day.
- Reggie Reagor (you can check out the videos from these glory days on YouTube. Just type in Chris Loos and they’ll all pop up.)
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