PERSON: Ken Chiampou

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.

Ken Chiampou, a native of Brentwood, New York, was a certified public accountant and had graduated from the University at Buffalo, working in corporate audits for a Big Eight firm. Both worked in the Elmira-Corning market in New York state in the late 1980s, Kobylt as a disc jockey at WENY and Chiampou at the station’s cross-town rival WELM.