Hilly Rose
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Hilly Rose is a longtime radio personality and a pioneer of the talk radio format. He currently specializes in paranormal events, with shows available from Fate and guest host appearances Coast to Coast AM.
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[edit] Early career
Rose began his career as a child radio actor, appearing on shows such as Ma Perkins and Mr. First Nighter. His career was interrupted by military service, but he returned to the air on KCBS-AM in San Francisco hosting one of the earliest talk radio programs.
[edit] Career highlights
Rose has hosted talk radio programs on KFI, KABC, and KMPC in Los Angeles as well as KGO-AM and KCBS-AM in San Francisco. He won the California State Fair award for investigative reporting.
During the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, Rose solicited AT&T to build a communications infrastructure so that troops could contact their families.
Rose authored “But That’s Not What I Called About,” a book with many autobiographical stories and biographies on many of the major pioneers and leaders of talk radio prior to network syndication.
In the mid 1990s, Rose developed a series of radio shows about marine life for the Monterey Bay Aquarium in Monterey, California.
In 1999 Hilly guest-hosted the Art Bell show, often running a Y2K theme. His guests included such "End -of-the-World" figures as notable survivalists, a hacker responsible for stopping all Amtrak trains, builders of fallout shelters, and others.
[edit] Paranormal
Rose began covering the paranormal in the 1970s while on KFI in Los Angeles. In the late 1990s, he was an early pioneer of Internet broadcasting with a paranormal talk show called The I-Files. In 1999, he was tapped to fill in for Art Bell for several months on Coast to Coast AM, a show that he still guest hosts today. His paranormal investigations provided a large volume of content for the early years of satellite radio, with 500 programs airing on Sirius. These programs are available through Fate along with new shows he continues to record for the Fate audience.
[edit] Personal
Rose lives in San Francisco with his wife. He has a daughter and three sons, including television news anchor Judd Rose (now deceased) and actor Roger Rose.
