12 Facts About Hilly Rose

Hilly Rose was an American radio personality and a pioneer of the talk radio format.

Hilly Rose was inducted into the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame as a "Living Legend" pioneer broadcaster in 2016.

Hilly Rose's career was interrupted by military service, but he returned to the air on KCBS in San Francisco hosting one of the earliest talk radio programs.

Hilly Rose has hosted talk radio programs on KFI, KABC, and KMPC in Los Angeles as well as KGO-AM and KCBS in San Francisco.

Hilly Rose won the California State Fair award for investigative reporting.

Hilly 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 1999 Hilly Rose guest-hosted Coast to Coast AM, often running a Y2K theme.

Hilly Rose's guests included such "End-of-the-World" figures as notable survivalists, hackers responsible for stopping all Amtrak trains, builders of fallout shelters, and others.

Hilly Rose began covering the paranormal in the 1970s while on KFI in Los Angeles.

Hilly Rose was an early pioneer of Internet broadcasting with a paranormal talk show called The I-Files.

Hilly Rose died of natural causes on December 27,2017, in San Francisco.

Hilly Rose was survived by his wife Mary Shepper Rose and children Adam, Roger and Patricia.