Roy Tuckman

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Roy Tuckman
Born	Los Angeles, California, United States
Other names	Roy of Hollywood
Ethnicity	Caucasian
Education	Masters Degree in Social anthropology (1967)
Alma mater	UCLA
Occupation	Radio personality
Years active	1977–present
Known for	Something's Happening
Website
Something's Happening (Official Site)

Roy of Hollywood (real name Roy Tuckman) has produced, engineered and hosted the "Something's Happening" show on Pacifica Radio station KPFK-FM in Los Angeles since 1977. His show runs from 12 midnight to 6:00 a.m., Monday night/Tuesday mornings through Thursday night/Friday mornings. Monday is "environment/anything goes" night. Tuesday is "health/alternative medicine" night, mainly featuring Gary Null. Wednesday is politics night. Thursday is "spirituality/mysticism" night, often featuring Alan Watts, Jack Gariss, Colin Wilson, and J. Krishnamurti.

Tuckman was born in Los Angeles, and earned a Masters Degree in social anthropology from UCLA in 1967. He has been a KPFK staff member since 1972. His awards include a Major Armstrong Award for the documentary "Upton Sinclair: The Reverent Radical", and an AP Best Spot News Coverage award (shared with Elliot Mintz) for his live, on-air interview with Iranian hostage-takers inside the American embassy in Tehran in November 1979.

External links

Something's Happening (Official Site) - with links to schedules and downloads of recent shows
Fiesta – the Amazon page for the 1989 album of ambient organ music composed and performed by Tuckman
A 2007 interview of Tuckman by Jay Kugelman

Pacifica Radio Network

Stations

Programs

Personnel

Current	Dennis Bernstein Blase Bonpane Don Bustany Deepa Fernandes Jack Foley Jim Freund Amy Goodman Juan González Doug Henwood Michio Kaku Sasha Lilley Mwiza Munthali Jeremy Scahill Roy Tuckman

Former	Aimee Allison Charles Amirkhanian Larry Bensky Mary Frances Berry Jerry Brown Pratap Chatterjee Marc Cooper Bob Fass Dorothy Healey Lewis Hill Pauline Kael Saul Landau Julianne Malveaux William Mandel Richard Pryor Kenneth Rexroth Nicole Sawaya Susan Stone Chris Strachwitz Elsa Knight Thompson Alan Watts

Federal Communications Commission v. Pacifica Foundation
Public broadcasting in the United States
National Federation of Community Broadcasters

Persondata
Name	Tuckman, Roy
Alternative names
Short description	American Radio Personality
Date of birth
Place of birth	Los Angeles, California, United States
Date of death
Place of death

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