CONDOLENCES – Page 62 – RAMP – Radio and Music Pros

Condolences: J.R. Reitz

• This one was a shocker today — J.R. Reitz, best known as the former longtime PD and morning personality

• Late last week we were deeply saddened to learn about the passing of a man who helped make an

• The body of Ray Taliaferro, former longtime talk host on KGO/San Francisco and a pioneer among African American radio personalities

• Former longtime major market programmer and research expert Dave Kelliher, a.k.a. Dave Roberts died Saturday, November 24 after a long battle

• UPDATED: We keep losing good people… the latest casualty is veteran programmer Jim Trapp, who, we are told, died

• We were saddened this weekend to learn that veteran radio journalist Sean Hall had been killed in a car accident

• Angelica Cob-Baehler, a longtime music-business management and publicity executive, died Wednesday, Nov. 21 after a long battle with cancer,

• That’s the term being used by both sides of Kasem’s seriously fractured family in a story that will be

• Roy Clark, legendary “superpicker” guitarist and singer, Country Music Hall of Fame and Grand Ole Opry member, Grammy, ACM

• The matriarch of “Purtan’s People” is gone — Gail Purtan, who was married to Detroit radio legend Dick Purtan for