Comments on: The "Unknown DJ" on 93 KHJ Los Angeles | January 26, 1979

By: Lee Scott

Lee Scott — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:49:38 +0000

On television, The Dukes Of Hazzard premiered on CBS that night

By: Mark Mendoza

Mark Mendoza — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:12:07 +0000

true this is Pat Garrett…good friend of mine…also Chuck Martin! “The Chucker” put fun back in radio….Can’t say enough ’bout Chuck…he gave me as shot at my dream…my first gig!.

By: Richard Wagoner

Richard Wagoner — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:04:45 +0000

Quick correction: Smokin’ Oldies wasn’t until the call-letter change to KRTH (AM) in 1986. Right after country was oldies using a tag “The Boss is Back.”

Sebastian destroyed KHJ no matter what he says about their supposed ratings success. Martin did a damn good jo of bringing it back. Too bad it was cut off too soon.

By: calradiopd

calradiopd — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:15:48 +0000

0.29 seconds on Google answers the question…KHJ’s Unknown Disc Jockey was Pat Garrett, who later went on to work using his real name at KHJ and other L.A. stations.

What you’re hearing here is the John Sebastian format at KHJ. Sebastian arrived in November of 1977, restricted jock talk and had the jocks call the station “Position 93″. Machine Gun Kelly walked out and across the street to KTNQ in March of 1978. He was replaced by The Unknown Disc Jockey.

In June, 1978, the talk restrictions became more severe and the positioning statement became “All Music 93/KHJ”…with promos saying that “AM” stood for “all music”. Charlie Tuna bailed for KTNQ in September. The True Don Bleu replaced Tuna at KHJ.

This aircheck is a snapshot of the final weeks of Sebastian’s run as PD. By March, he was gone, replaced by one of his jocks, Chuck Martin, who brought back jingles, let the jocks be jocks again and expanded the music library (under Sebastian, there were 90…NINETY…currents, recurrents and oldies…TOTAL.). He also hired Rick Dees to replace The True Don Bleu in mornings that spring.

It was too little, too late…but the country switch came much later than posted in the aircheck description….October of 1980.

By: Matt Seinberg

Matt Seinberg — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:51:29 +0000

Actually, it was later to be revealed this was Pat Garrett, (not the one is NC or FL) who later did shifts under his own name.

By: radioguy54

radioguy54 — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:24:22 +0000

The “Unknown DJ” sounds like the late Michael Sarzynski of WNNNNNBC nighttime fame. He was a good friend of Banana Joe Montone who was at KHJ in 1979.