Redding’s Rick Healy Announces Retirement
• Northern California radio pro Rick Healy, a fixture in the Results Radio building in Redding, CA since 1989, announced his retirement as PD/afternoon drive talent at Country KNCQ (Q97), effective Sept. 30.
After attending the Bailey School of Broadcasting San Jose, Healy landed his first professional radio job in scenic Red Bluff, CA in 1983. He joined Top 40 sister KEWB/Redding when it was still the “Killer B” owned by Bob Breck, and joined KNCQ for afternoon drive in Dec. 1989 under McCarthy Broadcasting. Healy was promoted to OM in 1998, and Results Radio purchased the cluster the following year. Healy was named PD of KNCQ in 2011, and we are told that the station has been No. 1 ever since.
All told, Healy has worked for the same group of stations in the same building for 34 years, or as Healy likes to describe it, “Four full paint jobs, and three wall-to-wall re-carpetings of the building.” When asked to reflect on his lengthy and amazingly stable career, Healy said, “To quote the immortal Chico Escuela, ‘Radio’s been very, very good to me.”
Looking to his post-retirement life, Healy plans to further beautify his five-acre spread east of Redding and visit his grandkids in SoCal anytime he feels like it.
Redding OM Jennifer Jones has now begun the search for the person to fill Healy’s large shoes. Q97, Today’s Country is a big station with live dayparts weekdays from 6am-10pm and enjoys massive community involvement, fire and winter road live reports, the works. Qualified candidates are invited to express your interest in this opportunity by emailing applicant@resultsradio.com. EOE.
