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 | | Louis, Missouri, and KABC, 790 AM in Los Angeles—adopted an all-talk show format in 1960, and both claim to be the first to have done so. |
 | | KABC station manager Ben Hoberman and KMOX station manager Robert Hyland independently developed the all-talk format. |
 | | While "all-talk" was new, call-in talk programs had existed in a number of markets prior to 1960. |
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