Wolf Ready To Call It A Career

• After a remarkable 40-plus-year radio career split between Portland, Los Angeles and Portland — the last 11 years at iHeartMedia AC KKCW (K103)/Portland, midday host Janine Wolf announced she has decided to hang up the headphones at the end of the year. She broke the big news on her show Monday morning.

Wolf started her storied career in Portland, working at KUIK, KYTE, KGW and KWJJ before moving to Los Angeles, where she stayed for the next 25 years, cracking the mic at the legendary KHJ, Westwood One Radio Networks, KBIG (twice), KZLA, KNX-FM (later KODJ), and the former KHTZ (K-Hits). After returning to Portland, Wolf worked for KOOL and KXL before joining K103 11 years ago. The first nine years were spent as part of the morning show with Bruce Murdock and John Erickson, and when they retired in 2019, Wolf segued to middays, enjoying more civilized hours and a loyal following.

Wolf shared more details about her career and life decision in a blog post that reads, in part, “During my career I got to play Disco when it was brand new, was the first female disc jockey ever at the biggest radio station in Portland, Super 62 KGW, and got to be Country when Country was cool during the Urban Cowboy faze. I’ve done Top 40, AC, Rock, Soft Rock, Hot AC, Smooth Jazz, News, co-hosted a nationally syndicated home improvement talk show, co-hosted a national Country countdown show, was a TV booth announcer, a Los Angeles Emmy-nominated TV show host and producer, and the voice of Mexicana Airlines — and I don’t speak Spanish!”

Janine loves to travel, kayak, cook, sew and garden — and most likely these are just some of the things she will be up to as she enjoys her next chapter. As Wolf related in her post, “A Facebook friend wrote on my page, ‘You’re not retiring, are you? Don’t do it, it’s boring.’ What he doesn’t know about me is I’m rarely bored, so no worries!”