CONDOLENCES – Page 41 – RAMP – Radio and Music Pros

Condolences: David DePew

• This one was described to us as “a solid punch to the gut” — Duke Wright’s Midwest Communications staff

• We were saddened to hear that Lisa Lee, Senior Vice President of Creative and Content for the Academy of

• Phil Valentine, the stridently anti-vaccine conservative talk host on Cumulus News-Talk WWTN (Super Talk 99.7 WTN)/Nashville, died Saturday, August

• Our thoughts are with the family, friends and colleagues of Jim Russ, morning traffic anchor for Hearst’s WBAL and

• Flint, MI radio legend Peter C. Cavanaugh, best known for his influence at WTAC-AM 600 and WWCK-FM, passed away

• It is with heavy hearts that we report that Jeff Kelly, West Coast Commercial Production Director for Benztown, died

• Fez Whatley, best known and loved as half of the popular Ron and Fez Show that ran on terrestrial

• We were saddened to learn that veteran programmer Tod Tucker, OM of Cenla Broadcasting’s group in Alexandria, LA died

• Walter Yetnikoff, the colorful and legendarily volatile head of CBS Records during its heyday in the 1970s and ’80s,

• UPDATED: Dusty Hill, one third of ZZ Top, “That Little Ol’ Band From Texas,” for more than 50 years, has