Because O'LINERS and L.A. Air Force have been so closely related in radio people's minds for so long, a lot of people aren't sure which is which. Here's a brief history....

O'LINERS is the name of Dan O'Day's company. Originally, O'LINERS was a monthly comedy service. The Whole O Catalogue is the mail-order catalogue published by O'LINERS.

L.A. Air Force was the brainchild of Terry Moss. Terry was a terrific major market radio personality, production whiz, and entrepreneur. His first radio-related entrepreneurial venture was CalRock, a monthly aircheck service circa 1973. O'Day (then a small market disc jockey in Florida) was one of CalRock's subscribers.

L.A. Air Force was born a year or two later with the creation of the first (vinyl) volume of the legendary Cheap Radio Thrills series. (It's now a 3-CD set that is for sale in our catalogue.) Again, O'Day (by then a major market jock) was one of their first customers.

O'Day arranged with Moss to offer Cheap Radio Thrills to his O'LINERS subscribers, and a mutually rewarding friendship and business association was begun.

Moss's impetus simply was to create and market radio-related products that he, himself, would want to purchase. This philosophy led to five vinyl volumes of Cheap Radio Thrills, plus production packages that included The Hollywood Production Library, Super Tracks, Laser Trax, Jock Shots, and Murder.

Moss also created the low-cost music scheduling software, MOM.

All of these products were marketed both by L.A. Air Force and by O'LINERS.

To further confuse the radio industry, at one time Moss was Editor-In-Chief of Galaxy, a show prep service founded by O'Day. (The very first editor was now-legendary disc jockey Ross Brittain.) Some years later, Moss purchased Galaxy from O'Day and became Publisher.