Alan Stock
Talkers Magazine, the bible of the talk radio industry, has named Alan Stock as one of the 100 most influential talk radio hosts in America.
Radio and Records, the bible of the entire radio industry, named Alan one of six top local talk radio personalities in 2002, and the 2000
Electronic Media Awards honored Alan for the best radio show. In 2003, Alan was inducted into the Nevada Broadcasters Association’s Hall of Fame and The Alan Stock & Heidi Harris Show won the
Electronic Media Award for best locally produced talk show.
While Alan has worked in the television and radio industry for over 20 years, his career didn’t begin with the media.
Alan worked in the field of psychotherapy for 10 years. His specialties included working with poly-abuse drug addicts. He relied on his creative training and employed the techniques of role-playing and psychodrama.
While practicing psychotherapy with the drug-addicted population, he began to work for the Viacom Cable television system and commercial television in the San Francisco Bay Area. This led to Alan landing his first radio job with a small 1,000-watt station in Petaluma, California. From there, he gained a large following and won numerous awards and recognition at KSRO in Santa Rosa, California. After four years of honing his talk radio skills in Santa Rosa, Alan worked for San Diego’s heritage station KOGO (midday), Sacramento’s KSTE (morning drive) and San Francisco’s heritage station KSFO.
In June of 1999, Alan was hired as the afternoon drive time host at Infinity’s (Viacom/CBS) KXNT in Las Vegas, Nevada. In the first eighteen months, afternoon ratings quadrupled. In the fall of 2001, Alan became the morning co-host at KXNT.
Alan graduated with a Masters Degree in psychology from California State University at Dominguez Hills. Alan and his wife Rhoda have been married for 38 years, have twin 29-year old daughters and a son-in-law...and a Shiranian (Shih Tzu/Pomeranian) pooch named Daisy.
alan.stock@cbsradio.com
Patrick DiFazio
Patrick DiFazio grew up outside of Reading , PA and started in Radio in 1994 as an intern at WRFY in Reading. From there he moved on to Lebanon, PA as the night time air talent on a Hot AC station. After two years, he decided to go closer to home and returned to WRFY as on-air talent.
In 2000 the road called, and Patrick headed west to Las Vegas to produce at the national talk network,
Talk America, producing for such talk hosts as Tony Trupiano, Rollie James and Doug Stephan among many others. In 2002 Patrick moved to CBS Las Vegas to produce the Alan Stock and Heidi Harris Show on AM 840 KXNT. In addition to producing the show, Patrick uses his extensive knowledge of Las Vegas roads, and heads up traffic reporting for KXNT\'s morning show. During his time with Alan & Heidi, Patrick found himself being dragged into various topics during the morning, and being the devout morning person he is, quickly became KXNT\'s favorite curmudgeon.
Love him or hate him, Patrick contributes his unique angle to KXNT topics far and wide.
Patrick currently resides in Las Vegas with his wife , his young daughter and dog, Lager.
patrick.difazio@cbsradio.com
Jack Landreth
In February of 1985, Jack Landreth began his so called career in radio, one step up from sweeping the floors, helping run a remote oldies show for
WLS in Chicago. The bug hit immediately, as from there, Jack spent the next 6 years, working his way up from board op to Morning Show Producer for WLS radio in Chicago. After a short stint with
Paul Harvey News, Jack became Senior Producer for
WLUP ("The Loop") in Chicago, working with such talents as Jonathan Brandmeier, Kevin Matthews, and Steve & Garry.
In 1994, Jack supposively got smart and left the winters of Chicago, becoming Executive Producer for KFMB in San Diego. While at KFMB, Jack helped change the format from MOR to Talk, again working with such legends as Hudson & Bauer and Stacy Taylor.
In 1996, Jack was called to run WTN, a fledgling FM talker in Nashville just out of bankruptcy. While at WTN, Jack found and developed new talk shows including Darrel AnKarlo, and John Ziegler. From Nashville, Jack went back west and programmed KNST in Tucson.
In 2001, Jack joined Infinity Broadcasting in San Antonio, quickly learning what the term "Bless your Heart" really means. In December of 2003, Jack moved up to Infinity\'s KXNT and KSFN in Las Vegas, working with top talents Alan & Heidi, Ken Johnson and Sean Hannity and became involved with the country\'s first launch of Spike Radio. In addition to programming the talk stations, Jack also acts as "Boss" on the top rated KXNT morning show. "Boss" has become a popular character, jumping in with his unique perspective on the daily going ons of each member of the program. In addition, Jack is also the executive producer of the Penn Jillette Radio Show, syndicated around the country on CBS radio. Jack is currently married to Radio (single) and lives in NW Las Vegas.
jack.landreth@cbsradio.com
