Listen to KROQ-HD2 on Audacy. On June 9, 2006, KROQ launched an HD sub-carrier, KROQ HD-2, which airs new wave and alternative tracks from the 1980s which were popular during KROQ's heyday (and is also branded "KROQ 2: Roq of the 80s"). The former co-host of KROQs beloved Kevin and Bean Show went on to speculate that he and his crew were fired due to poor ratings. The Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia, 18. Kroq-FM was a very good sounding radio station in the 1980s. 1970-1980 Music artists created so many changes in this decade on radio. But so far the only really weird call came from a guy in Dallas, without any credentials, who wanted to send me a plane ticket to go down there, allegedly with some of the other girls in the spread, to do some more photos. The KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1980. . They play is garbage 's always sucked and the new music they play garbage! NSN moved the studios out of the church basement and to 99 Chester Street in Pasadena and the transmitter to Flint Peak, with a slight power increase to 25,700 watts. I grew up in L.A. in the 1970s and 1980s and listened to KROQ almost exclusively. New film 'Pretty in Pink. ' 37. Tattooed Love Boys - Pretenders [20] The new KROQ called itself "K-ROCK, the ROQ of Los Angeles". Gim'me Wings - Rod Stewart Actually they did take more revealing pictures, but I always had my clothes on. Hit Me With Your Best Shot - Pat Benatar Driven To Tears - Police 1. [2], Richard Thomas Sheppard attended Oxford University, graduating in 1974, and worked as a club DJ known as "The Young Dick Sheppard" in the United Kingdom and Europe. One person who never forgot is "Poorman," the online persona of Jim Trenton, a DJ at KROQ who wrote the following: "Perkins, originally The Raymond Theatre, became the destination for live shows by all the new bands KROQ played, including Oingo Boingo, X, the Go-Go's, Romeo Void, Adam and the Ants and plenty of punk shows. Both of these great DJs bring us DJ Buellers Breakfast Beatmix scrambles up classic alternative music every weekday at 8:50am Eastern Show Schedule. KROQ was the recipient of an Alternate Contraband Award for Major Market Radio Alternative Radio Station of the Year 2012. 7. Steve West sitting before the banner of the brand he helped build. 72. KROQ Top 106.7 of 1981 1. Another Brick In The Wall Part II - Pink Floyd Bingenheimer is an iconic LA rock persona who was a DJ for KROQ radio in Pasadena, Los Angeles, California from 1976-2017, where he introduced many, many bands from overseas into the popular culture. // -->