PERSON: John Kobylt

KFI AM 640

Host

John Chester Kobylt and Kenneth Robertson Chiampou, known professionally as John and Ken, are American talk radio hosts of a four-hour weekday radio show, The John and Ken Show, on KFI AM 640 in Southern California. The John and Ken Show airs from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. PST on KFI AM 640. The program is the most listened to local talk radio program in the United States: they draw an estimated weekly audience of approximately 1.2 million listeners. According to Talkers Magazine estimates, they are the only local radio show with more than one million listeners.

John Kobylt was born to a working class Catholic family in Paterson, New Jersey. His father, Chester, was born in Poland and like many Europeans of his time was greatly affected by the German aggression. He was taken from his family and held in a Nazi labor camp for five years. He then joined the British Military and eventually immigrated to the U.S., where he married a Polish American woman, Helen. Chester and Helen had two sons John and Richard and lived a fairly typical working class life in northern New Jersey. John entered the radio business as a sportswriter after dropping out of Seton Hall University.