Friday, December 1, 2017

L-A Radio: Entercom Fires KROQ's Ralph Garman

Ralph Garman
To the shock of loyal KROQ 106.7 FM listeners early Thursday morning, radio personality Ralph Garman announced that it would be his last day on the station’s “The Kevin & Bean Show,” according to The LA Daily News.

Garman has been a part of the show, alongside hosts Kevin Ryder and Gene “Bean” Baxter, for 18 years. Not only did he contribute more hard-hitting entertainment news via his Movie Beat and Showbiz Beat segments, but he was responsible for a slew of impressions and voices for gags that were sprinkled in throughout the morning program.

The Daily News Garman was given the opportunity to go on-air and actually deliver a heartfelt and tearful goodbye to his loyal devotees. “I’m glad I had the chance to do it. A lot of people don’t in the world of radio, when it all ends, they don’t get a chance to say anything, they just become a footnote,” he said choking up on air during his final Showbiz Beat.

“So I appreciate the powers that be at KROQ giving me the opportunity to say goodbye to everybody and that’s what I really wanted to do more than anything else because the highlight of this whole experience for me has been the people who listen and I just can’t thank you enough for having spent some time with me for the past almost two decades."



On top of being a radio personality, Garman has also lent his voice to several characters on “Family Guy,” “American Dad” and “Robot Chicken.” He’s had small roles in feature films like “Yoga Hosers,” “Tusk” and “A Million Ways to Die in the West.” He also co-hosts a popular podcast with director and actor Kevin Smith, “Hollywood Babble-On.”

Where Garman was much more humble and gracious with his ousting, Smith didn’t hold back as he showed support for his longtime friend and blasted KROQ via his Twitter page.

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