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LAST CALL: Al Conin, whose nine-year reign...

By David Haldane, Helene Elliott and Bill Billiter

LAST CALL: Al Conin, whose nine-year reign as the radio voice of the Angels ends after Sunday’s season finale, plans on issuing a “thank you” statement to listeners before signing off. Conin’s contract was not renewed by radio station KMPC for what general manager Bill Ward called reasons of “artistic judgment.” . . . “One of the nice things that’s come out of this,” says Conin, “is the way people have reached out to me.”

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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