Singer, songwriter, producer and the voice of South Park’s Chef until Scientology came between. The voice of hot, buttered soul is still.
Biography
From California wildfires to New Orleans devastation, I’ve spent the past four years deep in the hyper-reality world of breaking news. Exposeés of Blackwater and salvia divinorum, and hanging with Marines in combat-prep firefights. A witness to Bloods co-founder Tookie Williams’ lethal injection at San Quentin’s death chamber. All in a day’s work.
This being L.A., I’ve hunkered down for the Phil Spector and Michael Jackson trials, talked crime with Dominick Dunne, movies with David Mamet, and covered the Oscars — live, from the Kodak Theater. This and more over the past four years, at KNX 1070 Newsradio in Los Angeles, a delightfully collegial shop staffed by talented journalists. Tune in!
Radio is a juicy medium for a guy who’s pushed the envelope on breakthrough formats on air and online. I was on the startup team at “Entertainment Tonight,” TV’s first day/date strip. I created and exec produced “America’s Most Wanted” which launched the Reality TV genre, and helped kick-start Internet journalism in 1995 with Berserkistan, the first web site to cover a war on location.
Broadcasting has been slow to catch the New Media wave but it cannot avoid the approaching tsunami. 
Radio’s business model is radically shape-shifting thanks to podcasts and wireless on-demand streaming — enormous new competition stretching far beyond AM and FM horizons.
But acoustic art is as vibrant as ever. Fresh styles and alternative approaches to audio journalism are surging down new distribution channels and giving listeners fresh opportunities to hear the world around us. How will radio evolve? Stay tuned.
The compact resumé
Awards 2004-08
Previously…
Baghdad, 1990