Michael Robin Jackson, a talk radio personality who broadcast for more than 32 years at KABC Radio in Los Angeles, died on Saturday at his California residence. He was 87 years old. Jackson’s…
Michael Robin Jackson, a talk radio personality who broadcast for more than 32 years at KABC Radio in Los Angeles, died on Saturday at his California residence. He was 87 years old.by Lyle Gregory, his close friend and producer of 30 years. The former radio host had been enduring Parkinson’s disease for the past decade.
Born in England on April 16, 1934, Jackson was first raised in the British Isle during World War II before moving with his family to South Africa and, later, the United States. Jackson began his stateside career in radio working as a DJ in San Francisco at KYA and KEWB before moving to Los Angeles to work at KHJ and news station KNX.