

Earned his first newspaper paycheck at the Belleville (Ill.) News-Democrat, fled the Midwest for Los Angeles Daily News and finally ended up at the Orange County Register. Earned a master's degree at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. with degrees in English and Communications. Graduated from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Ore. He grew up, in order, in California, Arkansas, Kentucky and Oregon. He regularly covers the Oscars and the Emmys, goes to Comic-Con and Coachella, reviews pop music, and conducts interviews with authors and actors, musicians and directors, a little of this and a whole lot of that. Peter Larsen has been the Pop Culture Reporter for the Orange County Register since 2004, finally achieving the neat trick of getting paid to report and write about the stuff he's obsessed about pretty much all his life.

Now you all can go finish the leftover Halloween candy and relax for the weekend. This reporter’s prediction? Rizenchief is correct and KOST will announce on Monday morning when it will switch to Christmas music, and the answer will be Friday, Nov. Raiderfan1985 was calling for a boycott on KOST’s IG videos: “Nobody Watch Anything Until They Say Something About The Christmas Music #OnStrikeTillFutherNoticeLol 🎅🎄.”Īnd finally, in the most recent KOST Instagram post we saw, which included a clip of former Journey singer Steve Perry and morning host Ellen K on Friday talking about new holiday music, we stumbled onto the most tantalizing clue yet.įrom the official KOST1035fm Instagram account, this message: “If you like what you hear you might want to check in with us on MONDAY MORNING 9:00 AM for a BIG KOST #HOLIDAY announcement 📣❄️🤫🎄.” Instagrammer Rizenchief claimed to have the scoop early in the day: “Rumor: Christmas music starts on Friday, November 12.” On Instagram, listeners were almost as frantic as Black Friday shoppers in their quest to find out when the dadgum Christmas music will begin. “No station would ever begin Christmas music on the weekend.” “I’m not sure what time but KOST 103.5 posted it on their Instagram story,” he wrote. Listener Alex Rodriguez posted confidently on the station’s Facebook page that Christmas music would start Friday, Nov. That doesn’t seem likely, though, because why kick it off in the middle of the weekend instead of higher-profile weekday? All week long, one Facebook commenter, whose profile includes a badge identifying him as a “top fan” of the KOST Facebook page, has been telling people that the switch will take place at 3 p.m.
