"the Southland's longest-running radio host"

Tom Dixon, who was a familiar voice to classical-music lovers for more than 50 years as a Los Angeles radio host, has died. He was 94.

Dixon already was a seven-year broadcast veteran in 1946 when he became a host on the classical station KFAC. It remained his home for the next 40 years. When he retired in 1998 at 82, Dixon was known as the Southland's longest-running radio host.