LAS VEGAS ( FOX5 ) — DJ Mike O’Brian is putting the finishing touches on a career that has seen vast changes to the community he served for decades.

Whether on purpose or by accident, most Las Vegans have likely switched the radio dial to 96.3 KKLZ at some point over the last few decades.

If it happened to be during the morning commute, you probably heard the voice of Mike O’Brian: the man who has been a mainstay in Las Vegas radio since the 1980s.

“I tell my wife a lot of times, and my kids, I said, I really didn’t realize the impact that I had on so many lives, whether I did or not,” O’Brian said.

A child of South Chicago, O’Brian always had a career in radio on the brain. The road to that dream began in Phoenix at a religious radio station.

“I wasn’t playing religious music. I wa

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