Michael Robin Jackson Dies at 87

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Michael Robin Jackson with President Jimmy Carter and Rosa Parks
Courtesy of Jackson Family


Michael Robin Jackson, a talk radio personality who broadcast for more than 32 years at KABC Radio in Los Angeles, died on Saturday at his California residence. He was 87 years old.
Jackson’s death was confirmed to Variety by Lyle Gregory, his close friend and producer of 30 years. The former radio host had been enduring Parkinson’s disease for the past decade.

“It was a testament to Michael, that so many of the guests and celebrities preferred to actually come in studio, rather than do phoners,” Gregory said in a statement. “With his British accent and boyhood charm, Michael made people comfortable, they opened up. That was his gift. Michael molded an interview into conversation, news and information. Like two people sitting at a kitchen table talking. A table, an open window, where millions tuned in daily across the nation, so many of them referring to Michael as their personal university.”

Born in England on April 16, 1934, ... began his stateside career in radio working as a DJ in San Francisco at KYA and KEWB before moving to Los Angeles to work at KHJ and news station KNX. In 1966, Jackson moved to KABC, beginning a decades-spanning tenure as a talk show host at the station. In 1998, he left KABC and moved across talks shows at KRLA, KLAC and KGIL until his retirement in 2007 at the age of 73.

Jackson broadcast at KABC and was syndicated on the ABC Radio Network for nearly a decade. He has received four Golden Mike Awards, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, an induction into the Radio Hall of Fame and an honorary doctorate of laws from Western School of Law. More than 2,000 of his radio interviews are now housed in the Library of Congress. Jackson interviewed hundreds of public figures over his five-decade career, including Presidents Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush along with various politicians, film and television stars, authors, musicians and artists.

https://variety.com/2022/biz/news/michael-jackson-dead-talk-radio-los-angeles-1235155273/

[Demovictory9]

1. the guy with the british accent. I listened to him about 30 years ago, when living in LA

RIP

[ificandream]

2. I remember hearing him.

Very stately voice and demeanor. RIP.