R.I.P.: L-A Radio Personality Cliff Winston

Cliff Winston

Longtime Los Angeles radio personality Cliff Winston, who worked for more than two decades at KJLH 102.3 FM, the rhythm & blues and soul station owned by singer Stevie Wonder, died Tuesday of a heart attack, according to announcement on the station’s Facebook page.

“We pause to acknowledge the wisp of time known as life, for we are tremendously saddened by the news that our friend, our colleague Cliff Winston passed away yesterday,” the statement said.

“Suffice to say that Cliff is an indelible signature in the life of KJLH Radio. For decades you heard him and the Home Team on our airwaves guiding you to work or wherever you were going each morning.

Winston was a Los Angeles native who started his radio career in Seattle after attending the University of Washington, worked in St. Louis and Chicago, and in the mid-’80s took a pay cut to come home to KJLH. He worked there for five years, then jumped to the new KKBT/The Beat 92.3, where he worked for four years before returning to KJLH for another 13 or so years that included a stint as its program director.