Bill Baldwin, 1969 Bill Baldwin, 2002 Bill Baldwin, Jr. After FEN When I came back from active Duty in early 1970, I took a year to work in radio and go back to Tokyo as a Disco/nightclub DJ. Then I went to work for Mel Blanc and his son, Noel, as a commercial director, producer and writer. Today, I’m currently in partnership with Noel Blanc and I’m president of Warner-Blanc Audio Associates. [Description by Bill Baldwin, Jr.] I began my FEN broadcast career as a newscaster and soon became Sports Director. Besides twice daily 15-minute sportscasts, I did play by play of high school football and basketball and created my own Sunday night show, “Project Blues”. When George Day went back to the states in the fall of 1969, 1 then took over the weekend program, “Nightbeat” which aired from 1 to 4 am Saturday and Sunday mornings. This “Nightbeat” air check is from a broadcast in early December of 1969. Growing up in Los Angeles, I was exposed to the best in AM radio from Wolfman Jack and Humble Harve, to Dave Hull “The Hullabalooer”, Dick Biondi, Gene Weed, B. Mitchell Reed on KFWB, Emperor Bob Hudson and of course, The Real Don Steele. If I had to pick my favorite Los Angeles AM station it would have been KRLA. My “Nightbeat” show was influenced by what I’d heard growing up in LA listening to KFWB, KRLA and KFI, plus what was becoming the new broadcast trend, FM radio, specifically KMET with B. Mitchell Reed. For the four months I did “Nightbeat”, good or bad, I pretty much did what I pleased from a programming standpoint. Here’s the evidence.