The Los Angeles Times reports the death of Les Crane, the successful KGO-AM San Francisco talk host who was tapped by ABC Television in 1964 to challenge Johnny Carson with “The Les Crane Show.” That ...
Les Crane, 74, who was called the "bad boy of late-night television" when he vied for ratings against talk-show king Johnny Carson in the mid-1960s and who later started a software company responsible ...