Loveline is once again rising from the dead at Audacy Alternative 106.7 KROQ Pasadena/Los Angeles.
The newest iteration of the relationship and sex advice show will air on Sunday nights from 10pm to 12am hosted by KROQ evening host Kevan Kenney and Dr. Tara Suwinyattichaiporn. Its relaunch was announced at KROQ’s “Almost Acoustic Christmas” concert on Saturday with the first show airing on Sunday, December 15. It will also be available on-demand on the Audacy app and KROQ’s YouTube page.
Kenney has hosted nights on KROQ and the majority of Audacy’s Alternative stations since 2020 after joining the company as night host at “Alt 92.3” WNYL New York in 2018. He also hosted MTV’s reboot of Total Request Live and at Amazon Music. Known simply as ‘Dr. Tara’, Suwinyattichaiporn hosts the Luvbites podcast, is a columnist for Women’s Health magazine, and is a tenured professor at California State University Fullerton where she teaches Quantitative Research Methods, Sexual Communication, Interpersonal Communication Theories & Research, Relational Communication, and Online Communication and Personal Relationships.
Loveline originally debuted on KROQ as a Sunday night show under the name “Ask A Surgeon” in 1983 featuring Jim ‘Poorman’ Trenton, Swedish Egil, and Scott Mason with Dr. Drew Pinsky joining the show in 1984. Poorman was replaced as co-host by Riki Rachtman in 1993 and joined by Adam Carolla in 1995 as the show entered national syndication leading to Rachtman’s departure a few months later. That iteration, featuring Pinsky and Adam Carolla from 1995 to 2005 would be the best known thanks to the launch of a television version on MTV in the late 90s. The show with Pinsky would remain on KROQ until April 2016 with Ted Stryker co-hosting from 2006 to 2009 and Mike Catherwood from 2010 to 2016. CBS Radio would then relaunch the brand as a podcast hosted by Amber Rose and Chris Donaghue later in 2016, which later moved to Audacy’s LGBTQ+ “Channel Q” network hosted by Donaghue and briefly Carrie Keagan until the show ended at the end of 2022.
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I wish him the best of luck, but with all due respect, I don’t think anything is gonna touch that Adam and Drew era. The comedy, the authenticity, the fact that everybody was listening to the radio still at night, it was just a perfect storm. It feels like Kroq is trying to tap into nostalgia, but without the defining players.
I loved listening to loveline back in 1996-98. I would drive home from work at 11:00 or so at night and listen to it on my way home and then sometimes more once I got home. It was such an interesting show. I loved Dr. Drew he was just great on it. Him and Adam Carolla had a really good chemistry.