Jack Popejoy

Jack Popejoy was already a long-time KFWB listener when he was invited to join the team in 1986. He's been getting up early to join Judy Ford as Morning Anchor since the beginning of 2001, although they've worked together as a team in various day parts going back to the early '90s.

Jack's background includes an AB in Astronomy from Amherst College, followed by years of covering the space program on radio and TV.  He's often been seen and heard covering a variety of science topics, and has concentrated on the Southern California earthquake hazard since coming to KFWB. He is frequently seen lurking in the halls and offices at Caltech, the USGS, and the Southern California Earthquake Center. His other career option was professional baseball.

Jack has been involved in emergency planning and management, contributing his expertise to the Los Angeles Emergency Operations Organization for more years than any other individual. He's taught workshops in crisis management and emergency communications for more than two decades. He was on the steering committees of both the Great Southern California ShakeOut (with more than 5 million participants) and the Los Angeles International Earthquake Conference in November 2008.

Jack finds someplace new to visit every year, and has stamps from all seven continents on his most recent passport (try getting a stamp from Antarctica...technically, that's illegal). Recent trips also include Ecuador (Galapagos & Amazon Basin), Kenya, Egypt, Eastern Europe, Peru, New Zealand, China, Botswana, Turkey, and Bali. He's known for getting into political discussions with local cab drivers before leaving airport property.

 Despite getting shark teeth imprints on his foot on The Great Barrier Reef in 2003 and visiting face to face with lions, elephants, and giraffes in Africa in 1995 and 2007, he went to the northern Hudson Bay in late 2006, petting the polar bears.  He finished both Peru's Inca Trail and New Zealand's Milford Track. (No, didn't hike the whole thing...just the last mile or two of each.)

 Jack was also a regional semi-finalist to go up on the Space Shuttle before the Journalist-in-Space program was cancelled in the wake of the 1986 Challenger disaster.

 Over the years, Jack has also appeared on KTLA, KCOP, KIIS, KLOS, KTWV, KPOL, KZLA, KTZO, KSAN, and a bunch of stations that start with "W".