325:. As part of promoting his show on the new station, newspaper ads ran in Los Angeles area papers claiming that Mr. KABC had been switched at birth and that explained his time as Mr. KFI. Later he would sometimes be known simply as "Mr. K". Initially, the show received poor ratings due to inconsistent time slots. The show was frequently preempted by
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and offered his services to get a break in the radio industry. He was initially rejected, but through UCSB's campus job placement center was able to secure an internship. Within a year and a half, Germain was the assistant program director.
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portion "which was very easy"). He was only able to use the radio to receive and not to transmit. However this was also the time of the
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