Roger Hedgecock

Moving to complete the talk format that takes to the air today, KFWB-AM (980) said Tuesday that the syndicated Roger Hedgecock, Dave Ramsey and Todd Schnitt will round out a lineup of hosts that includes the previously announced Laura Schlessinger, Laura Ingraham and Michael Smerconish. KFWB has sacked the all-news format that it had featured since 1968, laying off more than a dozen employees in the process. The CBS-owned outlet will still feature news programming from 3 to 9 a.m. each weekday, but then the talk shows start, beginning with Ingraham at 9 a.m. and Schlessinger following at noon.

Roger Hedgecock may be wearing a media badge here at the Republican convention, but he is careful to let you know--right up front--that he's not part of that media. No, he is not one of the "phonies," as he puts it, not one of "the high priests of journalism who try to tell you what is news." Hedgecock, instead, represents what he calls the medium of the future--talk radio.

Two of the city's more enduring and entertaining political figures--perennial candidate/magician Loch David Crane and defrocked mayor-turned-talk-show-host Roger Hedgecock--settled their legal differences out of court Wednesday. With mutual apologies and a joint $6,000 contribution to a shelter for homeless teenagers run by Catholic Msgr. Joseph Carroll, the two pronounced an end to Crane's damage suit against Hedgecock. The news did not rock the city.