Doug McIntyre

After four years hosting KABC's overnight show Red Eye Radio, McIntyre inherited the morning drive position when veteran host Ken Minyard retired in October 2004. On September 24, 2009, McIntyre announced that he was leaving effective the end of the day's broadcast.[2] Commencing May 8, 2011, he hosted Doug McIntyre's Red Eye Radio which was broadcast on flagship station 770 WABC in New York, as well as 100 other stations across the country. On December 9, 2011, it was announced that he would be returning to KABC, Los Angeles, to host a new morning drive show, Mcintyre In The Morning, effective January 3, 2012.[3] McIntyre was teamed with former KFI afternoon news anchor Terri-Rae Elmer. Elmer exited the program in December 2016. McIntyre was joined by Leeann Tweeden in February 2017. In November of that year, McIntyre and Tweeden broke the Senator Al Franken story that resulted, ultimately, in Franken's resignation from the United States Senate. In December 2018, McIntyre announced that he will be leaving KABC. His final program was December 14.[4]

On July 22, 2019,The New Yorker published Jane Mayer's long investigative article.[5] The Tweeden section was based on study of online images, videos and articles, but added extensive interviews with people on 2006 tour and others with Franken, such as two actresses who had performed the same skits in earlier years. Mayer dissected Tweeden's claims in detail and showed that almost nothing was true. Tweeden refused to talk to her, but McIntyre and KABC news director Nathan Baker did:

McIntyre and Baker confirmed to me that nobody fact-checked Tweeden’s account. They evidently didn’t ask for the names of the people on the U.S.O. tour whom Tweeden said she had confided in at the time; in fact, they made no effort to reach anyone who’d been on the trip. They didn’t check the date of the photograph, or look at online videos showing other actresses performing the same role on earlier tours. They didn’t realize that although Tweeden claimed she never let Franken get near her face after the first rehearsal, there were numerous images of her performing the kiss scene with Franken afterward. Nor did they review the script or the photographs showing Tweeden laughing onstage as Franken struck the same “breast exam” pose.

Terry Gross interviewed Mayer July 25, 2019 on NPR's Fresh Air.[6] The interview played relevant audio excerpts, including 2004 interview with Franken describing kissing skit with Karri Turner. Mayer reiterated "Both of them said they did no fact-checking."

Doug McIntyre is a frequent television guest. He has appeared on Lou Dobbs Tonight, Bill Maher's Politically Incorrect, and HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher. Doug has also appeared on The History Channel, as well as Fox News Channel’s The O’Reilly Factor and Hannity & Colmes. Doug hosted his own segment on CNBC’s The Dennis Miller Show. McIntyre also wrote at least two episodes of The New WKRP in Cincinnati.

Doug writes a weekly column for the Los Angeles Daily News, which appears every Sunday. Additionally, he has written for The Daily Beast, American History Illustrated, LA Jazz Scene, and The Los Angeles Times. An amateur historian, McIntyre is an expert on the Wright brothers.

McIntyre and his wife Penny Peyser wrote, produced, and directed Trying to Get Good: The Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon (2008), a feature-length documentary film of Jack Sheldon. It won Jury Prizes at the Newport Beach Film Festival and at the Kansas City Film Makers Jubilee, and won Audience Prizes at Newport Beach and the Indianapolis International Film Festival. It also won an audience prize at the prestigious Nashville International Film Festival.