In mid-August 2023, RBR+TVBR reported that Alice Cooper was ready to wind down his nightly offering. Indeed, the United Stations-syndicated Nights with Alice Cooper concluded its 19 1/2 years in syndication during the week of September 4, with programs being offered through Sunday, September 10.
A source told RBR+TVBR that he did not retire or quit radio. Rather, the decision to conclude his syndicated program is tied to the sale of United Stations. “New management is taking the programming in a different direction,” the source said.
It is now known that Cooper is back, thanks to the launch of a new program this evening by the longtime host and recording artist.
Introducing Alice’s Attic with Alice Cooper, distributed by SupeRadio. This sees Cooper, a Detroit-born rocker known for “School’s Out” in the early 1970s and the 1989 comeback hit “Poison,” take the helm for a five-hour program available for both weeknights and weekends.
The show is available via digital download with music or content only, and inventory includes 3 minutes per hour weeknights between 7pm and 8pm, and four minutes per hour between 8pm and midnight weeknights. Weekend inventory is five minutes per hour.
Launch stations include Lotus Communications-owned Rocker KLPX-FM in Tucson, and WEZX “Rock 107” in Wilkes Barre-Scranton.
Hubbard Radio Classic Rocker KSLX-FM in Phoenix is believed to be bringing back Cooper, too, for the 7pm-midnight time slot. He’d been heard on KSLX for nine years, and before that was featured on sibling KDKB prior to its switch from Rock to Alternative.
Cooper joined the KDKB lineup in January 2004. By September 2004, stations such as KZEL in Eugene-Springfield, Ore., couldn’t get enough of his program. “Everyone gets a kick out of hearing Alice Cooper on the radio,” then-Program Director Russ Davidson said in a Radio & Records interview. “They especially like his choice in deep cuts. It’s him, broadcasting from a ‘toxic waste site’ out in the middle of the Arizona desert, just doing his thing.”
