Art Linkletter, the radio and television talk-show pioneer who was best known for eliciting hilarious remarks from the mouths of babes and who late in life was a popular motivational speaker and author, challenging seniors to live as zestfully as he did, has died. He was 97. …
Radio host and one-time Johnny Carson talk show rival Les Crane, who found later success as a software developer and publisher, has died at the age of 74. …
Comedian Kenneth Keith Kallenbach, a long-running member of Howard Stern’s “Wack Pack,” has died after falling ill in jail. He was 39.
Kallenbach contracted pneumonia while in custody on a charge of attempted child abduction …
Actor, writer and musician Gordon Clyde was known to radio listeners for his satirical and topical piano and song spots on BBC Radio 4’s Start the Week and Woman’s Hour. He also had his own weekly show on the BBC World Service. …
LONDON, England (AP) — Actor Barry Morse, who played a detective pursuing the wrongly accused Dr. Richard Kimble in 1960s TV series “The Fugitive,” has died, his son said Tuesday. He was 89. …
The actor’s Web site estimated he played more than 3,000 roles on radio, TV, stage and screen over a seven-decade career. … Read full obituary
PAOLI, Pa. (AP) Veteran Philadelphia broadcaster Hy Lit, whose career as a rock deejay on the city’s airwaves spanned half a century, died Saturday. He was 73. … Read full obituary
Whether as a television beast or a radio shock-jock, Stan Zemanek was a professional stirrer. The Sydney broadcaster, who died today aged 60 of a brain tumour, wore political incorrectness like a badge of honour and bragged about being radio’s most complained-about personality. … Read full obituary
March 27, 2007 — Jerry Girard, a sports broadcaster for WPIX-TV in New York from 1974 to 1995, died Sunday in Hawthorne, N.Y. He was 74. … Read full obituary
Screenwriter and author Ted Berkman, whose film credits include “Bedtime for Bonzo” and “Fear Strikes Out,” has died. He was 92. … Read full obituary
Neil Strawser, who anchored CBS News radio coverage of President Kennedy’s assassination, died Saturday. He was 78. … Read full obituary
Raymond “Cowboy Ray” Hofstatter, a recurring character on “Mancow’s Morning Madhouse” radio show, died Tuesday night as a result of lingering injuries from a hit-and-run auto accident last fall, WGN-Ch. 9 reported. … Read full story
Avril Angers, who has died aged 87, was a comedian, actor, singer and star of radio, theatre — and pantomime. On television she had a career that spanned six decades, beginning in the postwar period with Terry-Thomas, taking in such shows as Coronation Street and Dad’s Army along the way, and ending in the 1990s with Common As Muck and All Creatures Great and Small. … Read full obituary
Dr. Don Rose, the radio personality who entertained generations of listeners in the Bay Area, died in his sleep Wednesday.
Rose commanded the airwaves in the 1970s and 80s with his morning show on KFRC-AM. He came up with nicknames for many local cities, like “Pinhole” for Pinole, “Sacra-tomato” for Sacramento, and “Berserkly” for Berkeley. … Read full obituary
John Peel, who championed rock/pop music made by people other than chart acts has died aged 65. On his radio show from the sixties to the present day he would give exposure to all forms of music not normally accessible on radio to the UK public. … Read full obituary
NEW YORK (AP) — Disc jockey Scott Muni, the gravelly-voiced radio host whose encyclopedic knowledge of rock ‘n’ roll made him “The Professor” to three generations of New York listeners, has died at 74. … Read full obituary
Singer, songwriter and actor Sheb Wooley — who also recorded a series of parody hits as Ben Colder — died Tuesday (Sept. 16) at Skyline Medical Center in Nashville. He was 82. Wooley had suffered from leukemia for the past five years, his widow, Linda Dotson, told CMT.com. … Read full obituary
Bob Hope, whose mastery of the comic monologue and the topical wisecrack carried him from vaudeville to Broadway musicals and then on to worldwide fame as a radio, film and television star of the first magnitude, died Sunday night in Toluca Lake, Calif., according to The Associated Press, which cited his long-time publicist, Ward Grant. Mr. Hope was 100. … Read full obituary
…but there’s a much more interesting story here:
Radio show host killed; husband arrested
The host of St. Louis radio’s top-rated morning news show was found shot to death in her home, and her husband was charged Wednesday with first-degree murder. …
Stacy Keach Sr., father of actors Stacy and James Keach and an accomplished character actor in his own right, died Thursday of complications of congestive heart failure. He was 88. … Read full obituary
LOS ANGELES — The estranged mother of broadcaster “Dr. Laura” was found murdered, Laura Schlessinger announced to her radio audience Friday. The body of Yolanda Schlessinger, 77, was found this week in her Beverly Hills condo. Police released few details other than that the killing occurred weeks ago. … Read full story
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