Gary Bryan Biography
Gary Bryan is an American radio DJ who now broadcasts from KRTH (K-Earth 101) in Los Angeles, California. He has over 30 years of broadcasting experience, including major-market program director and morning show duties, as well as hosting and producing various syndicated programs and projects in the online and television space.
How old is Gary Bryan? – Age
He is 72 years old as of 15 January 2024. He was born in 1952 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Gary Bryan Family – Education
Bryan was born at the Navy Hospital in Philadelphia and raised as a Navy brat, moving throughout the country with his family. By the time he finished high school, Bryan had lived in Philadelphia, Washington, DC, Norfolk, Virginia, Bath, Maine, San Diego, Los Angeles, and Gray, Georgia. He graduated from Cascade High School in Everett, Washington.
Gary Bryan Wife – Children
He and his wife, June, have been married since the age of 19. They have four children: Jack, Kate, Marie, and Grace; and four grandchildren: Eva, Jesse, Zoey, and John.
Gary Bryan Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $1 million.
Gary Bryan K-Earth 101
Bryan joined KRTH (K-Earth 101) in Los Angeles in June 2002, where he began hosting the morning show. He switched to afternoon driving in February 2005 and returned to the morning shift in May 2006.
From May 2003 to October 2008, Bryan and KRTH raised over $1 million for the Bob Hope Hollywood USO at LAX through three radiothons, a golf tournament, and a raffle including a Jesse James-customized Jeep Wrangler.
Bryan launched a joint venture with Blueprint Entertainment, a Canadian television firm, in July 2008 to produce a TV show that will spotlight chosen morning shows from radio stations across Canada. Bryan is now working with Lou Pizarro of Operation Repo and EGA Productions to create reality TV concepts for cable and video streaming. He also hosts a podcast called Mobshot, which features former mafia tough guy Vince Ciacci. Bryan not only hosts the morning show K-Earth 101, but he also announces the annual Creative Arts Emmy Awards.
Gary Bryan Rewind with Gary Bryan
Rewind with Gary Bryan is a weekly nationally syndicated radio show hosted by Gary Bryan. Originally an oldies show, it has evolved into a classic hits format focusing on music from the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. The show, which originates from KRTH, is produced by Bryan’s production firm, Radio Genius Productions, LLC, and syndicated by United Stations Radio Network.
In 2009, Rewind integrated its production and affiliate network with that of Dick Clark’s Rock, Roll & Remember, an oldies program broadcast by United Stations. For several years, the show was known as Dick Clark Presents Rewind with Gary Bryan before Clark’s name was dropped and the genre was changed from oldies to classic hits.
Gary Bryan Career
At age 17, while seeing family close to Augusta, Georgia, Gary Bryan heard a horrendous telecaster and accepted he could improve as a radio character. He met with the station director at WTWA in Thomson, Georgia and started working the next day.
Bryan is a veteran telecaster, having filled in as program chief at such stations as KKRZ (Z100) in Portland, Oregon, which he put on the air in 1984, and KUBE in his old neighborhood of Seattle. Under his direction, KUBE accomplished all-time record FM appraisals for the Seattle market in 1988. Bryan modified ABC Radio’s leader FM station in New York City, WPLJ, while likewise filling in as morning host. He then moved his concentrate solely to performing early daytime facilitating obligations, showing up live at WHTZ in New York, the most-paid attention to station in the US at that point, and KFRC in San Francisco.
In mid 1995, while at KFRC, Bryan drew public consideration and contention when he changed “Iko” into a spoof called “Ito”, ridiculing Spear Ito, the appointed authority directing the O.J. Simpson murder preliminary. After fights by a few vested parties, Bryan was raised on charges before the city of San Francisco’s Common liberties Bonus. He was found “blameworthy” yet, as Bryan told the press, “they suggested I be downgraded and take a cut in pay. Luckily, they have no power, so I advised them to screw off”.
Bryan made his most memorable component film appearance in Metro, a 1997 delivery featuring Eddie Murphy. In 1998, Bryan expected morning host obligations on KJR-FM in Seattle.