Frosty, Heidi & Frank
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| Genre | Hot talk |
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| Running time | 3 hours (including commercials) |
| Country |  United States |
| Languages | English |
| Home station | KABC (AM) |
| Starring | Forrest "Frosty" Stilwell Heidi Hamilton Frank Kramer |
| Recording studio | 790 KABC AM |
| Air dates | since October 5, 2009 |
| Website | FrostyHeidiAndFrank.com |
 Podcast |
Frosty, Heidi and Frank Uncensored: [1] |
The Frosty, Heidi & Frank Show is a talk radio show hosted by Forrest (a.k.a. Frosty) Stilwell, Heidi Hamilton, and Frank Kramer. The show is based in Los Angeles, California and began on 97.1 FM Talk (KLSX) which is owned by CBS Radio. The show aired weekdays and Saturdays from 10am to 2pm PST. Their last show on 97.1 FM Talk was on Friday, February 20, 2009.
On March 6, 2009, Frank announced on his Myspace page that the gang would be getting back together to begin producing podcasts in a studio located in Santa Monica. The podcast, FHFU (Frosty, Heidi and Frank Uncensored), premiered on March 10, 2009 as a weekly show available on Apple's iTunes. On August 3, 2009, FHFU became a daily (weekdays) 1 hour show and is available for download through iTunes, Zune as well as on FrostyHeidiAndFrank.com. The daily show is recorded at Rudy Dog Studios which was built into Frosty's home in Studio City, California.
On October 2, 2009 via a special podcast, to the tune of "Back in Black" by AC/DC, they announced their return to radio. Frosty, Heidi, and Frank began broadcasting their 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM show on 790 KABC AM radio in Los Angeles on October 5, 2009.
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[edit] History of the Show
Stilwell and Kramer were once part of the Jamie, Frosty and Frank Show with Jamie White on Alice 105.9 (KALC) in Denver, Colorado, which began in 1994 and was Denver's highest rated talk show for a number of years. In 1998 the show moved to Los Angeles at Star 98.7 (KYSR), where they met traffic reporter Heidi Hamilton. In less than a year, the Jamie, Frosty, and Frank Show established itself as the second highest rated English language show in southern California.[2]
In September 1999 Stilwell and Kramer were released from KYSR despite high ratings and replaced by Danny Bonaduce. After waiting out the remainder of their contracts, during which time they were paid a reported $2 million each while being held off the air, they were finally free agents in the summer of 2000 and were immediately signed by KLSX. They teamed with Heidi Hamilton and did one secret late-night audition show on KLSX to showcase how the new trio would sound. Despite their original intention to audition several other well known women broadcasters, KLSX station management felt there was no reason to look any further for the third member of the new team after hearing the one show, and Heidi was signed. The Frosty Heidi & Frank show was born.
Sam Rubin, who had a short one-hour lead-in show on KLSX, would bash Frosty, Heidi, and Frank frequently on his TV show, the KTLA Morning News. Rubin often called their show "unlistenable," as there was bad blood between them since Rubin had hoped to be given an expanded show and resented that he was passed over for the new trio. During one of the station's "Think Tank" group shows with all of the air personalities in 2003, a shockingly nasty on-air fight erupted between Rubin and Frank and Frosty, prompting Frank Kramer to declare that Rubin would soon be gone. Kramer publicly wagered him $10,000 that he would not still be on the air at KLSX next year. Shortly after, Rubin's low ratings led to his departure from KLSX in December 2003, and the station gave Frosty, Heidi, and Frank the extra hour of airtime. (There was no word on whether the wager was actually paid.) The ratings shot up to #1 and consistently remained at or near the top.
Their show was initially signed to a two-year contract in 2000, then renewed to a three-year contract In 2002, and again for three more years in 2005. At the show's 8th birthday bash in September 2008, it was announced their contract had been extended for another year at KLSX, through September 2009.
The show was syndicated to 103.7 Free FM (KSCF) in San Diego, CA, from October 2005 to December 2006. On January 2, 2007, KSCF replaced them with a local talk show.
The show was also syndicated to 101.5 Free FM (KZON) in Phoenix, Arizona, however CBS Radio decided to change the format to Hip-Hop. Their last broadcast in Phoenix was on June 20, 2007.
Starting August 2005, the Frosty, Heidi & Frank Show was also available over the Internet live. The frostyheidiandfrank.com website was launched as a way to maintain their own show's unique content, apart from the CBS radio station sites. They began adding "Off the Mic" videos in 2007, a series of comedy videos. KLSX boasted as recently as February 2009 that the Frosty Heidi & Frank show was again #1 in the ratings in Los Angeles, and planned to expand their online broadcasts and webcasts of the show and live special events.
The last Frosty, Heidi & Frank program for KLSX aired on Feb. 20, 2009 due to the change in format at the station from talk to contemporary hit radio, AMP Radio [3].
Saturday OCT 4 2009: The Frosty, Heidi & Frank Show joins the KABC/790 AM line-up Monday (Oct. 5). They will be on 9 a.m.-noon PST, following Peter Tilden. Listen Live
The three have been doing a uncensored podcast on their own site www.frostyheidiandfrank.com and posting it on Apple’s iTunes. This will continue to be recorded and released five days a week.
Reports started a few weeks ago they would join KABC, but there was no announcement until late Friday afternoon. John Phillips, who did mid-mornings the last few days, will still be on 6-10 p.m. weeknights.
[edit] Hosts
[edit] Frosty Stilwell
Forrest "Frosty" Stilwell was born in Evansville, Indiana. Stilwell currently resides in Studio City, California His best friend and loyal pet "Rudy" dog passed away recently. Frosty has an extensive career in radio which includes stops in Milwaukee and Denver before relocating in Los Angeles in 1998 as part of the Jamie, Frosty and Frank Show, before moving to KLSX in 2000 as part of the Frosty, Heidi and Frank Show. Frosty has acknowledged he is overweight. Reportedly he has tried to lose weight but has, admittedly not been successful. In early 2008 Frosty revealed a story about his refusal to give money to a transient at a 7-11, in anger the transient called him Big Fat Pig Queer, a phrase that is now in the urban dictionary. Frosty turned the story into a humorous anecdote on the air. When KLSX placed a promo poster of Frosty, Heidi and Frank on the station's promotional van, Frosty was upset that his face was pasted over the driver's side door handle. He is reportedly working on a music CD, and debuted a performance of an original composition at the Frosty, Heidi and Frank Birthday Bash on September 27, 2008.
[edit] Heidi Hamilton
Heidi Dionne Hamilton (real name unknown)[citation needed] (born September 24, 1973 in Batesville, Indiana) is an American radio personality. While she has had boyfriends in the past, she now claims to be a lesbian. Hamilton is known best for her cackling laugh on the show. She is also an aspiring actress, performing in very small roles in Los Angeles theater and appearing in independent films or anything she gets offered. She graduated from the University of Cincinnati, and met Frosty and Frank as a helicopter-based traffic reporter while the duo was working with radio personality Jamie White. On the air, she has openly discussed her first sexual experiences with both men and women.[citation needed] An ongoing game she played on the radio with the audience was to guess the sex of her significant other, known only as "The Italian." On October 27, 2006 at a live show in San Diego, California, Hamilton said that "The Italian" was in fact a woman. Hamilton currently resides in Encino, California.
[edit] Frank Kramer
Steven Francis Mershon[citation needed] is an American radio personality. He met Frosty when he was a teenager. He attended Indiana University and was a member of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. Kramer joined Frosty as co-host of a radio show in Milwaukee just prior to, and instead of, graduating with a degree in Geological Sciences. From there, they moved together to Denver, where they were joined by Jamie White and became Denver's highest rated talk show for a number of years, before they brought the show to Star 98.7 in Los Angeles in 1998. Frank was named "The Hottest Man In Radio 2007/2008".[citation needed]
On the final episode of the show Frank alleged that Tom Leykis was the reason for the station's format change. He claimed that Leykis had not been willing to renegotiate his contract (something other on air personalities had been willing to do). Frank finished his story by using the dump button on himself for using foul language. At the end, where the apologies would normally be, he did say that Tom was still family and that brothers argue from time to time. Leykis disputed that claim in his final episode saying that if Frank had any real evidence he should present it.
[edit] Segments
[edit] "Who's Going to Hell?"
A regular segment done randomly about once a week or two is "Who's Going to Hell?" Frosty, Heidi, and Frank each pick a news story about subjects including cruelty, mistreatments, or gruesome deaths to animals or people. They compete to see who has the story about the worst example of human nature or behavior. They tend to attach humorous titles to attract votes, which callers must repeat for their vote to count.
[edit] "Should I Stay or Should I Go?"
The segment airs every Friday afternoon at 1:00pm, and it showcases LA bands or singers trying to make it in the music industry that have yet to see major success. Two songs are played with listeners calling in to give their feedback. If the featured act or band is unanimously liked (getting 6 audience votes to "stay", zero "gos"), they are invited to play at Frosty, Heidi, and Frank's anniversary, or birthday bash in September of that year. Some bands are considered if they have only one "go" to perform at their birthday bash.
This segment has been consigned to history following their move to the AM format in October 2009, although it may make a re-appearance on the Uncensored Podcast.
[edit] "The Bag of 'S'"
This is where Frosty, Heidi, and Frank give away their own (unwanted) stuff, or stuff that guests have left in their studio, to the audience as a so called prize.
[edit] "The Apology"
At the end of the show Frosty, Heidi, and Frank "apologize" to people, groups, living creatures, and inanimate objects offended or even mentioned on the show. This is the same manner in which the Jamie, Frosty, and Frank show ended each day. However, it is not believed that "the apology" originated with Kramer, Stilwell, or White. The origin of this end-of-show practice dates back to Robert Michael Green, who was a Florida radio personality on several stations during the 80's and 90's.
