Dick Curtis--Seattle Radio Icon

 Dick Curtis, veteran area radio voice and a friend, rival, and associate with Pat O'Day, has died, according to reports on facebook.  Curtis had worked on-air at KJR and also at KJR's arch rival, KOL.  

He worked with O'Day at Concerts West bringing national acts to the area.  Curtis was newsman at KYYX/KXA while I worked for that station.   He was later director at the Seattle campus of the Bailie School Of Broadcast.  

I believe his most recent work was as newscaster at KVI.  You can hear Curtis at 2:25 in this video.

Local Radio Guy Talks Sinatra

 

Veteran Seattle radio voice Dick Curtis dishes about his time handling Frank Sinatra tour on the SeaTac Media blog.  For a fascinating account of Frank Sinatra on tour in the mid-seventies, click here

Going Down Memory Lane--Seattle's KOL

There was a time when radio's DJs were so sharp, you could not wait for the song to end just to hear what they would say next. In this riveting report, we go back to Colorful KOL, a rock and roll station that was the perennial bridesmaid to KJR in the mid to late 60s in the Seattle Radio Market. It was at KOL, that my cousin Burl first made a name for himself. Burl, as well most of KOL's staff would eventually wind up at KJR. In fact, the unstable nature of the radio biz had DJs continually pingpong from one station to the other.