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Doug Dunlap is a long-time traffic reporter in Los Angeles, California. Currently heard on KFWB, he has been reporting traffic for over twenty years on other Los Angeles stations such as KABC, KNX, KRTH, KMPC, KLAC and KZLA among others.
KFWB is a commercial AM radio station in Los Angeles, California. It airs a classic Regional Mexican music format. KFWB is owned by Lotus Communications. The station has a colorful history, being the radio voice of Warner Bros. Studios in the early days of broadcasting, and a long-time Group W/CBS all-news radio station from 1968 to 2009. It has kept the same call sign throughout its nearly 100-year history.
KABC is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California. It is owned by Cumulus Media and airs a talk radio format, one of the earliest stations in the U.S. to program talk shows 24 hours a day.
KNX is an Entercom-owned all-news radio station broadcasting on 1070 kHz in Los Angeles, California. It is also one of the oldest stations in the United States, having received its first broadcasting license, as KGC, in December 1921, in addition to tracing its history to the September 1920 operations of an earlier amateur station.
Dunlap's radio career began at KFOX in Redondo Beach, California in 1980. Other radio personalities were also getting their start there at the same time including long time KOST and KABC newscaster Sharon Dale, disc jockey Kenny Noble and fellow traffic reporter Rhonda Kramer who, for many years, has been the number one traffic voice on KFWB in Los Angeles.
Redondo Beach is coastal city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, located in the South Bay region of the Greater Los Angeles area. It is one of three adjacent beach cities along the southern portion of Santa Monica Bay. The population was 66,748 at the 2010 census, up from 63,261 at the 2000 census.
1980 in radio involved some significant events.
KOST is a radio station in Los Angeles, California. Owned by iHeartMedia, it broadcasts an adult contemporary format. It is co-located with its sister stations on West Olive Avenue in Burbank. The transmitter is atop Mount Wilson alongside most L.A. based television and FM radio stations. Those FM stations, along with KOST, are considered "superpower" grandfathered Class B FM radio stations, since their effective radiated power greatly exceeds the level the U.S. Federal Communications Commission sets for Class B FM stations at the height on Mount Wilson.
Dunlap and Richard Turnage handled traffic responsibilities for KFWB and the Los Angeles Dodgers at the L.A. Dodgers Transportation Center in 2007. Dunlap and long-time traffic reporter for KABC, Captain Jorge Jarrin, now handle those responsibilities for KABC radio. Capatain Jorge is the son of the Dodgers' Baseball Hall of Fame broadcaster Jaime Jarrín.
The Los Angeles Dodgers are an American professional baseball team based in Los Angeles, California. The Dodgers compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West division. Established in 1883 in Brooklyn, New York, the team moved to Los Angeles before the 1958 season. They played for four seasons at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum before moving to their current home of Dodger Stadium in 1962.
Jaime Jarrín is the Spanish language voice of the Los Angeles Dodgers. He began broadcasting for the Dodgers in 1959 and was the 1998 recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award from the Baseball Hall of Fame. One of the most recognizable voices in Hispanic broadcasting, Jarrin, "the Spanish Voice of the Dodgers" is also heard on Spectrum SportsNet LA's SAP channel.
Dunlap is also a pianist. He can be heard around Southern California accompanying singers who perform the "Great American Songbook" at various restaurants and clubs.
The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.
The Great American Songbook, also known as "American Standards", is the canon of the most important and influential American popular songs and jazz standards from the early 20th century. Although several collections of music have been published under the title, it does not refer to any actual book or specific list of songs, but to a loosely defined set including the most popular and enduring songs from the 1920s to the 1950s that were created for Broadway theatre, musical theatre, and Hollywood musical film. They have been recorded and performed by a large number and wide range of singers, instrumental bands, and jazz musicians. The Great American Songbook comprises standards by George Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Irving Berlin, and also Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer, Richard Rodgers, and others. Although the songs have never gone out of style among traditional and jazz singers and musicians, a renewed popular interest in the Great American Songbook beginning in the 1970s has led a growing number of rock and pop singers to take an interest and issue recordings of them.
He is married and lives in Santa Clarita, California.
Santa Clarita, officially the City of Santa Clarita, is the third largest city in Los Angeles County, California, and the 23rd largest in the state of California. It is a suburb of Los Angeles. The city has annexed a number of unincorporated areas, contributing to the large population increase. It is located about 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, and occupies most of the Santa Clarita Valley. It is a notable example of a U.S. edge city or boomburb. Santa Clarita was ranked by Money magazine in 2006 as 18th of the top 100 places to live.
He is also founder and host of the Doug-O-Rama sporting events held in the Northern San Fernando Valley each Fall and Winter.
