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All Access: 10 Questions with Chad Benson

By: All Access Music Group

Out of high school, played professional soccer in the UK for the Bristol Rovers, Falkirk, Scotland and Portsmouth Football Club. After blowing out my knee, early gigs in radio with KZLA and KEZY in Los Angeles, later going to Talk Radio UK. Then, back in LA at K-Earth, produced Robert W. Morgan. Production Director and Air Talent at Entercom, CBS and Clear Channel in Sacramento 2003-2008. In 2009-10, Production Director and Talk Host at KTSA/San Antonio. In late 2012, joined Morris in Palm Springs as a morning host on their Hot AC and Classic Hits stations before moving to their KNWZ AM & FM news/talk station until the show went national on Radio America in March 2015. Co-owner of Univocity Media, Inc., which produces and licenses the show to Radio America.

  1. Okay, you had a pretty unusual route into radio. How did you first get into radio, and what led you, after doing voiceover and imaging for years, into talk radio?

After my brief stint as a professional soccer player on the other side of the Atlantic, I knew that I wanted to use my other Godgiven talent to entertain. I had done voices since I was a kid and had dreamed of one day voicing cartoons – – I wanted to be Mel Blanc or Charles “Daws” Butler. But,…


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