Lars Kristopher Larson (born March 6, 1959)[1] is an American conservative[2][3] talk radio show host based in Portland, Oregon.

Larson began his broadcasting career at age 16, at KTIL in his hometown of Tillamook, Oregon, learning his trade under Mildred Davy.

From 1977 to 1979,[citation needed] Larson attended the University of Oregon in Eugene, but quit "after just a year to work in radio and television".

[5] Larson served as news director for KATR in Eugene from 1977 to 1978 and KBDF from 1978 to 1979 with internships at KEZI television and KPNW radio.

[1] In 1992, he helped to create the KPTV news magazine program Northwest Reports, a weekly one-hour show which debuted in September of that year.

The program won a regional Emmy Award for a story that exposed careless handling of customers' private financial information by certain local banks.

[8] The program lasted more than four years, but was canceled in fall 1996,[8] after which Larson resumed anchor duties on KPTV's 10 O'Clock News.

In 2002, Larson was listed in Talkers Magazine's Heavy Hundred (the most important radio hosts of 4,000 nationwide) for the first time.

On August 14, 2003, Larson was hired by Westwood One Radio Network to host his own show for national syndication.

[17] His father served in the United States Navy, and when he began a career in forestry, the Larson family lived in Montana, California (Happy Camp, Somes Bar, and Dorris), and Klamath Falls, Oregon, before settling in Tillamook, Oregon, when Lars was a teenager.

[19] On March 18, 2008, in the context of a discussion about Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama and U.S. policy toward Israel, Larson called former president Jimmy Carter an anti-Semite on CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight.