John Kobylt

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John & Ken Remain Off-Air at KTLA 5 Following Whitney Houston 'Crack Ho' Remark: Latino Group Celebrates

Updated at the bottom: This isn't over yet. First posted at 12:19 p.m. A Latino media group today gloated about the absence of conservative radio talk show hosts from their nightly segment on KTLA News, local televisions's channel 5. The National Hispanic Media Coalition called the John & Ken's tw ... More >>

Rush Limbaugh's Appearances on KFI in L.A. Targeted by Local Media Group That Wants Him Suspended

KFI 640 AM, the radio station criticized by some minority groups after its "John & Ken" called the late Whitney Houston a "crack ho" on air is under fire again: The outlet happens to be the local home of nationally syndicated talker Rush Limbaugh, who apologized recently after calling law student S ... More >>

Whitney Houston 'Crack Ho' Remark: Should Angry White Men Like 'John & Ken' Be Allowed to Have A Radio Station to Themselves in L.A?

Conservative talk radio hosts John & Ken are back on the air this week following a week-and-a-half suspension for calling the late Whitney Houston a "crack ho." A group of African Americans in broadcasting met with the duo yesterday and seem cool with the outcome, but in a statement the coalition s ... More >>

KFI Radio Suspends John & Ken for Calling Whitney Houston a 'Crack Ho'

Update: The KFI boys apologize. See below. John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou, inflammatory KFI radio hosts with a reported audience of over 1 million, have finally gotten themselves suspended, reports Talkers. (If only for a week-and-a-half.) After years of pissing off every shade of leftist and minori ... More >>

John & Ken's 'Korean Painter Scam Guys' Rant Called Out as 'Racially Charged'

Talk show hosts John & Ken (KFI AM 640) don't seem to have met an ethnic group they like. While they've long been criticized by immigrants' rights groups for their take on the undocumented (culminating in the loss of several advertisers for their station), a new controversy has erupted. The group M ... More >>

John & Ken Radio Show Plagued by Anti-Latino Hate Speech, UCLA Study Says

johnandkenshow.comJohn & Ken under the gun.​A UCLA study of broadcast hate speech, including a look at L.A.'s controversial John & Ken Show (KFI AM 640) found that two thirds of hateful statements analyzed targeted undocumented immigrants "and Latinos." The study (PDF) looked at single segmen ... More >>

Marvin Norwood, Arrested for Bryan Stow Beating, Is a 250-Pound White Guy -- So Why Was Dodger Violence Blamed on L.A. Latinos?

Marvin Norwood, 30​Up until last Thursday, everyone -- including witnesses to the Bryan Stow beating, LAPD officials and California's conservative peanut gallery -- thought March's territorial Dodger Stadium assault was orchestrated by two tattooed Latino men. "This is a latino problem," wrot ... More >>

Latino Dodgers Fans Who Beat Down S.F. Fan Bryan Stow Committed a Hate Crime?

John and Ken.​Was it a hate crime? As the Dodgers head north to do battle with the Giants today, it's an assertion being made by John Kobylt of L.A. station KFI-AM 640's The John and Ken Show. He's talking, of course, about the opening-day beating of Santa Cruz paramedic and San Francisco fan ... More >>

Tim Donnelly's Revolution

Tea Party newcomer wants Legislature to adopt Arizona immigration law

Payout for Dog Food Prank?

Rumors swirl that Delgadillo’s office will settle with firefighter Tennie Pierce

Worse and Worser

A hothead female firefighter accuses a bombastic boss. She gets $6.2 million — at least.

Tennie Pierce Versus Taxpayers

A firefighter tricked into eating dog food now claims he’s a victim of retaliation

What Really Happened at Fire Station 5?

A dog-food prank gone bad wrecks careers and morale as Tennie Pierce demands millions

Dancing for Dear Life

Labor helps Jimmy survive a scandal at City Hall — for now

A License To Veto

Governor pulls a U-turn on driver’s-license bill

Driving Mad

Arnold, Ken, John and licenses for illegal immigrants

Arnold’s True Lie

Big Media’s Bamboozle

Why radio’s wrong to already call the recall