Loveline

Loveline began in 1983 as a Sunday night segment on Los Angeles radio station KROQ, hosted by DJ Jim "Poorman" Trenton and DJ The Swedish Egil. About a year later, Trenton added a segment called "Ask a Surgeon", hosted by his friend Dr. Drew Pinsky, then a fourth-year medical student at the University of Southern California. The two segments soon merged into their own show, co-hosted by Trenton and Pinsky. Over the years, Trenton's relationship with the station grew rocky, and in August 1993 he was replaced by former MTV VJ Riki Rachtman; around this time, the show switched from weekly to five nights a week. Dr. Drew and Rachtman were joined by Adam Carolla in October 1995, just as the show was first being syndicated nationally. The trio hosted together for several months, but Carolla and Rachtman often competed for airtime, leading Rachtman to resign suddenly in April 1996. Adam Carolla and Dr. Drew have hosted the show since, until Carolla's departure on November 3, 2005.