Larry Mantle
Larry Mantle | |
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Born | |
Alma mater | Vanguard University |
Occupation | Radio show host |
Spouse(s) | Kristen Hernandez |
Children | Desmond Mantle |
Larry Mantle (born January 12, 1959) is a radio interview call-in show host in Southern California. He has been the host of AirTalk with Larry Mantle on NPR-member station KPCC, 89.3 FM, since April 1st, 1985. AirTalk is the longest-running daily talk show in Southern California.[1] AirTalk has served as KPCC's flagship program for most of its tenure, and Mantle has received many awards for his journalism, including the Society of Professional Journalists Radio Journalist of the Year award and the Associated Press' prestigious Mark Twain award.
Fridays at 11:00 a.m., Mantle hosts the movie review and interview program FilmWeek on AirTalk. [1] He was also the program director of KPCC in the 1990s, before it came under the umbrella of American Public Media. Mantle was one of the champions of the KPCC-APM merger that created Southern California Public Radio.[2]
Personal[]
Mantle grew up in Inglewood and Hollywood, California, and is a graduate of Hollywood High School. He has a B.A. in psychology from Vanguard University in Costa Mesa, California. Mantle is married to Speech-Language Pathologist Kristen Mantle (née Hernandez). They have a teenage son, Desmond.[1][3] Mantle is also a Christian.[3]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Bio: Larry Mantle | 89.3 KPCC". Southern California Public Radio. Retrieved 8 April 2013.
- ^ Larry Mantle - KPCC's Larry Mantle Puts Job on the Line for Station Changes - Los Angeles Times
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Larry Mantle". NNDB. Retrieved 8 April 2013.
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- American public radio personalities
- Journalists from California
- Radio personalities from Los Angeles
- 1959 births
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- People from Hollywood, Los Angeles
- American journalist, 1950s birth stubs
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- 20th-century American journalists
- American male journalists