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Jim Carson, K-EARTH
10/10/2007
2:09 pm

How is my “I couldn’t care less” approach to golf working out?

Good and not so good. Last Sunday in a 30 mile per hour wind, it worked great hitting the ball downwind, into the wind. It was like that old paddle board you may have had as a kid. The one with a little rubber ball attached to a rubber band, and stapled to the paddle. You whacked it, and it came right back at you

The object was to keep it going with the paddle, sort of like one person ping pong. Well, that’s exactly what it was like hitting a golf ball into the wind – only it wasn’t attached to a rubber band. It just responded like it was, coming almost back to the spot where it was hit.

That tested my “I couldn’t care less” attitude. I found myself caring too much. Not good! The more I cared, the harder I tried, and the worse it got.

Anyway 93 in a 30 mile per hour wind is what it is. A test in futility, and as former golfing great Johnny Miller stated: “Golf is an imperfect game.”

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Los Angeles native Jim Carson got his first big break in radio when KBLA in Burbank needed someone with an FCC license to “babysit” an overnight remote. “That license was my ticket in the door,” Carson commented. “KBLA liked my attention to detail and ended up hiring me as staff announcer.”

Carson’s biggest break came when Bill Drake, who revolutionized radio in the 1960’s, sent him to San Diego station KGB to pay his dues. Before coming to K-EARTH 101, he was a mainstay at Los Angeles station K-Lite, then an oldies-based soft AC station, from 1986 to 1994.

Birthday: December 4

What led me to Los Angeles: I've been here all my life, born and raised. My mom and dad bought in La Cañada before there was a 210 Freeway.

On-air at K-EARTH 101 since: October 25, 1994; on-air in Los Angeles since 1974.

What led me to K-EARTH 101: The station that plays the Greatest Hits on Earth had a rare opening, I started weekends, then the late Robert W. Morgan became ill, and I wound up covering the morning show duties for three and a half years. It’s ironic that I would work Robert W’s shift since in the early stages of my career he took me under his wing, and was very encouraging. I worked the mid-day shift at the old KIQQ for more than ten years, so mid-days helping make the office more productive is a natural.

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