Colorado Media Newsroom
December 18th, 2023, 03:40 PM
From Radio Insight:
https://radioinsight.com/wp-content/images/2023/12/jimladd-113x200.jpgSiriusXM has announced that Deep Tracks and longtime Los Angeles personality Jim Ladd died on Sunday, December 17 at the age of 75 from a heart attack.
The supposed inspiration for the Tom Petty song “The Last DJ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Knw_GxXPHg)“, Ladd had been with SiriusXM since 2012 as one of the few freeform Rock DJ’s still going in radio.
Ladd began his career in 1969 at 105.5 KNAC Long Beach CA before first joining 95.5 KLOS Los Angeles in 1971. He would then go to 94.7 KMET from 1974 until 1984 (before returning in December 1986 just ahead of the station’s February flip to what became Smooth Jazz). He then spent time at AAA 101.9 KMPC-FM and Classic Rock 97.1 KLSX before returning to KLOS from 1997 until 2011. Ladd would then join Sirius XM’s Deep Tracks channel for a daily show at the start of 2012.
SiriusXM remembers Jim Ladd, legendary freeform rock DJ. For over 50 years, he championed classic rock and interviewed many of the greatest artists in his Los Angeles studios and on SiriusXM?s Deep Tracks channel. Read more: https://t.co/39lvDFxABP
— SiriusXM (@SIRIUSXM) December 18, 2023 (https://twitter.com/SIRIUSXM/status/1736871314001121312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
more (https://radioinsight.com/headlines/262301/jim-ladd-passes-away-at-75/)
https://radioinsight.com/wp-content/images/2023/12/jimladd-113x200.jpgSiriusXM has announced that Deep Tracks and longtime Los Angeles personality Jim Ladd died on Sunday, December 17 at the age of 75 from a heart attack.
The supposed inspiration for the Tom Petty song “The Last DJ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Knw_GxXPHg)“, Ladd had been with SiriusXM since 2012 as one of the few freeform Rock DJ’s still going in radio.
Ladd began his career in 1969 at 105.5 KNAC Long Beach CA before first joining 95.5 KLOS Los Angeles in 1971. He would then go to 94.7 KMET from 1974 until 1984 (before returning in December 1986 just ahead of the station’s February flip to what became Smooth Jazz). He then spent time at AAA 101.9 KMPC-FM and Classic Rock 97.1 KLSX before returning to KLOS from 1997 until 2011. Ladd would then join Sirius XM’s Deep Tracks channel for a daily show at the start of 2012.
SiriusXM remembers Jim Ladd, legendary freeform rock DJ. For over 50 years, he championed classic rock and interviewed many of the greatest artists in his Los Angeles studios and on SiriusXM?s Deep Tracks channel. Read more: https://t.co/39lvDFxABP
— SiriusXM (@SIRIUSXM) December 18, 2023 (https://twitter.com/SIRIUSXM/status/1736871314001121312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
more (https://radioinsight.com/headlines/262301/jim-ladd-passes-away-at-75/)