cherandsteele — **Cher** and **The Real Don Steele** at KHJ Radio in Hollywood

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Is Hollywood Real?

Hollywood is a state of mind more than anything else. But, yes, Hollywood also happens to be a specific region within the city limits of Los Angeles, California.

On the map below, you can easily find Paramount Studios in the bottom right. When the Boss Radio format was launched in 1965 on the air at KHJ, Los Angeles, the offices and studios were located on Melrose Avenue adjacent to that famous motion picture and television production facility.

5515 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood -- historic location of KHJ

It happened in Hollywood—the entertainment capital of the world were motion pictures and television shows are produced. A convergence of radio (a terrestrial means of broadcasting audio signals to individual receivers) and rock and roll—a style of popular American music began in the 1950s. It was pushed into sharp focus in 1965 at one radio station, KHJ, with offices and studios in Hollywood at 5515 Melrose Avenue next to Paramount Pictures.

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This catchy and sarcastic nickname for Las Angeles was coined in the 1960s by The Real Don Steele and spoken in his own voice on the air on KHJ. This website shows you what actually happened and why.

Travel back in time to listen to the way it was: Legendary Hollywood radio station KHJ was featured prominently in Quentin Tarantino’s 2019 movie Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

You have arrived at the online companion to KHJ Los Angeles: Boss Radio Forever by Woody Goulart available in digital format as a eBook (updated April 2026) which is only available for purchase exclusively from Amazon. I started out working in the broadcast radio industry in Central California at a college radio station that prepared me for my time in Hollywood on Sunset Boulevard. This is nonfiction story based on actual events.

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Is Hollywood Real?

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