{"id":474341,"date":"2026-02-17T18:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/474341\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T18:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:57:15","slug":"larry-ryan-exits-mornings-at-klkl-after-three-decades-retires-following-60-year-radio-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/474341\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Ryan Exits Mornings At KLKL After Three Decades; Retires Following 60+ Year Radio Career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-od-removed-loading=\"lazy\" data-od-replaced- data-od-xpath=\"\/HTML\/BODY\/DIV[@class='jeg_viewport']\/*[5][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[5][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[2][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[2][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::P]\/*[1][self::IMG]\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/larryryan-200x200-jpg.webp.jpeg\" alt=\"Lovable Larry Ryan 95.7 The River KLKL Shreveport\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-340018\"  \/>After 30 years in mornings at Connoisseur Media Classic Hits \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.klkl.fm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">95.7 The River<\/a>\u201d KLKL Minden\/Shreveport LA, \u2018Lovable\u2019 Larry Ryan is retiring from radio ending a 60+ year radio career after the station cut his show.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan had been brokering time to host mornings at KLKL since 1996. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/larrykryan\/posts\/dont-look-for-us-in-the-morning-on-the-river-957-as-we-were-told-our-services-we\/10227613757964599\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">posted on February 5<\/a>, \u201cDon\u2019t look for us in the morning on The River, 95.7, as we were told our services were no longer needed.  Hey, it has been a good run, but the new owners have other plans. What am I going to do? Pretty sure something might pop up fairly soon. \ufffcI do want to thank those of you that have listened to us over these many years. Thak you, very much !\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An Iowa native, Ryan first arrived in Shreveport in 1964 to first join 710 KEEL. Along with a few stints at KEEL, Ryan also owned 1070 KBCL in the market and has also worked in markets stretching from Little Rock, Waterloo and Cedar Rapids IA, Austin, Mobile, and had a brief stint in mornings at \u201cUS 99\u201d WUSN Chicago in the late 80s.<\/p>\n<p>KLKL <a href=\"https:\/\/radioinsight.com\/headlines\/339995\/anna-raven-continue-growth-with-upcoming-debut-in-portland-more\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">will be adding<\/a> Compass Media Networks\u2019 \u201cAnna &amp; Raven\u201d for mornings starting February 24.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After 30 years in mornings at Connoisseur Media Classic Hits \u201c95.7 The River\u201d KLKL Minden\/Shreveport LA, \u2018Lovable\u2019 Larry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-474341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}