Remembering Sean Demery
Demery’s other programming stints include WYMS (88Nine Radio)/Milwaukee, KITS (Live 105)/San Francisco and KXRK (X96)/Salt Lake City. Other stops on his colorful radio journey: KIOY (K104) and KYNO-FM/Fresno, KGGI/Riverside, KTFM/San Antonio, KLRZ/Salt Lake City, KMTT (103.7 The Mountain)/Seattle, two stops at WNNX (99X)/Atlanta, and Radio Central in San Francisco, to name a few. He also spent many productive years working with Mike Henry at Paragon Media Strategies. Henry commented, “For 28 years, Sean was the most creative and funniest guy I ever knew. Then, for the last nine months, he became the strongest and most courageous person I’ve ever known. He was an incredible person and like a brother to me. I’ll miss him greatly, but he’ll always guide me for the rest of my days.”
Cliff Berkowitz, Sean’s college radio roommate, remarked, “We all know that Sean forever changed radio with his brilliance as a music director. We have all admired his inventiveness on the air and his ability to relate to listeners. But for those closest to him, we will miss his ever-present humor. We will miss the way he would call us ‘Nerds!’ and laugh about it. We will miss his abiding friendship. We have lost a part of ourselves and the person I will always love as a brother and a Godfather to my children.”
[Ed. note: I first met Sean in the fall of 1980 at the late, great KYNO-FM/Fresno, where I was privileged to work with him and a remarkably talented team that also included Kidd Kraddick, Steve Craig, Rick Stacy, Jeff Davis and Eddie Monson, to name a few. Sean was a blindingly bright light; a brilliantly funny and deeply inspiring person whose earthly presence will be sorely missed. — Kevin Carter].