Warm-Hearted Radio Vet Cory Baker Retraces His Itinerant Career

Toronto-born, LA-raised broadcaster Cory Baker has spoken to the Desert Dispatch about his long career.

He got the bug as a teenager at Birmingham High School in Van Nuys. It continued on to KGBS 1020 AM and various points beyond including Bakersfield, Las Vegas, Ventura and Barstow, where Baker did a morning show for 12 years. Along the way, he explains he didn’t always have the luxury of just working in radio:

“I always seemed to work two and sometimes three jobs at a time even when I was in radio,” Baker said.

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