Television Appearances
While working at KROQ in the mid-1980s, local Orange County TV station KDOC had a program called "Adventures with the Poorman" hosted by Trenton.
In the late 1980s, Trenton hosted a show on KDOC called "Request Video". This was a live show featuring videos of primarily rock and independent bands. In addition, Trenton took live phone calls and interviewed bands. His show was the first to interview the then-unknown Gwen Stefani and her band No Doubt. He quit after 15 months, complaining that the show did not pay him.
In 1994, Trenton hosted a nightly television show on KDOC called The Love Channel. Trenton owned the show and bought the airtime from KDOC, giving him full control of its content and advertising revenue. However, the show was failing to support itself financially, as its ad revenue could not break even with KDOC's high airtime fees. Knowing the end was coming, Trenton did the live show in the nude. KDOC pulled it from the air the next day.
In 1999, Trenton again returned to the television landscape, producing a program called Poorman's Bikini Beach. Like The Love Channel, Poorman owned and controlled the show, renting airtime from various television stations. However, unlike The Love Channel, the show was not live, and was much cheaper to produce and air. It ran off-and-on over subsequent years, frequently switching television stations. It would typically air sometime between 11pm and 1am. The program ran for several years on Los Angeles station KJLA. Trenton canceled the program on January 17, 2011, after expressing dissatisfaction that he had to pay for the airtime himself. Poorman's Bikini Beach briefly returned to California TV on UHF station KBEH in September, but was canceled on January 6, 2012. Again, Trenton had purchased that airtime and sold his own ads for the show.
Trenton also had brief stints at KTTV's Good Day LA and the Los Angeles UPN station's news program.
He appeared as an extra on the program Boardwalk Empire, which aired in October, 2012.
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