Dick Purtan on air at the 23rd annual WOMC Radiothon for The Salvation Army Bed & Bread Club - Feb. 2010
Born
July 11, 1936 (1936-07-11) (age 87)
Occupation
American radio personality
Paul Richard Purtan (born July 11, 1936) is an American radio personality. His last radio job was as the morning radio show host on WOMC serving the Detroit, Michigan, radio market. Purtan was also a disc jockey at WKNR, WXYZ, CKLW, WCZY-FM which became WKQI in 1989 and WOMC from 1996 until his retirement in 2010. Previous to coming to Detroit at WKNR "Keener 13" in 1965, Purtan worked at WOLF in Syracuse, New York and WSAI in Cincinnati; he began his radio career in his hometown of Buffalo, New York at WWOL under the station-mandated name "Guy King"[1] and also worked for a very short time at WBAL in Baltimore (only to be forced to leave the station after his witty, sardonic humor clashed with the station's conservative ownership).
^Warley, S. (2005). Serving Their Communities: 50 Years of the New York State Broadcasters Association. New York State Broadcasters Association. p. 149. ISBN 9780977611706. Retrieved 2015-04-12.
thus increasing ad revenue. The entire on-air staff was let go, and DickPurtan was brought in from CKLW to host the station's morning show at the start...
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being introduced in 1979. DickPurtan joined the station for mornings in 1978, coming over from WXYZ. Largely due to Purtan's popularity, CKLW remained...
stations, including at WNBC. His first radio job was WWOL in Buffalo with DickPurtan, then WKWK, in Wheeling, WV. After that, he continued at several venerable...
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addition, his former WXYZ-TV co-anchor JoAnne Purtan, daughter of former longtime WOMC morning host DickPurtan, joined Clark as co-host the following week...
With Z95.5 featuring future Radio Hall of Fame inductee DickPurtan, much was made of Purtan's "return" to AM radio. However, the simulcast ended during...
C. Minor, Suzy Nakamura, Andrew Newberg, Lyn Okkerse, Tim Pryor, Jackie Purtan, Angela Shelton, Len Stuart 1994 – Tom Gianas, Nancy Hayden, Todd Stashwick...
of WING, Dayton), Bob Harper, Mark Edwards, Dick Wagner, Bob Wayne, Steve Young, Bob White, Paul Purtan, Ron "King B" Britain (later of WCFL Chicago)...
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