2006 in Radio - Deaths

Deaths

• George Balzer, 91, wrote for Jack Benny's radio and TV shows, natural causes.
• Ernie Baron, 65, Filipino radio/TV host and meteorologist, myocardial infarction brought about by diabetes.
• Dick Bass, 68, American pro football player and radio analyst.
• Ramona Bell, 47, wife of broadcaster Art Bell, asthma attack.
• Dick Brooks, 63, American NASCAR race car driver and radio broadcaster, heart attack.
• Harry Browne, 72, American libertarian writer, politician, U.S. Presidential candidate and radio talk show host.
• Pye Chamberlayne, 68, American radio journalist, heart attack.
• Nick Clarke, 58, BBC Radio 4 presenter and journalist, cancer.
• Casey Coleman, 55, Cleveland sports broadcaster who won 4 Emmy Awards, pancreatic cancer.
• Steve Crosno, 66, longtime El Paso radio DJ whose career spanned nearly 50 years, kidney failure.
• Jaye Michael Davis, 62, veteran U.S. radio deejay, motorcycle accident.
• Robert Dentith, 29, British radio presenter of "The Unsigned Show" on Kerrang! Radio.
• Mike Dickin, 63, British talkSPORT radio presenter, car accident.
• Sir John Drummond, 71, former controller of BBC Radio 3 and The Proms.
• Ernest Dudley, 97, British novelist, journalist, screenwriter, actor, radio broadcaster.
• George Edwards, 87, American radio host for WQXR.
• Paul Eells, 70, voice of the Arkansas Razorbacks football and basketball for radio and television, car accident.
• Kurt Emmerich, 76, German radio reporter.
• Alan "Fluff" Freeman, 79, former BBC Radio DJ, natural causes.
• Len "Boom" Goldberg, 74, longtime station voice and DJ for WMMS in Cleveland, Ohio, and the first station voice for New York's WHTZ "Z100" upon their 1983 launch, heart attack.
• Christopher Glenn, 68, American CBS News radio and television news anchor, liver cancer.
• Larry Henderson, 89, first regular broadcaster on CBC's The National, natural causes.
• John Hinde, 92, Australian film reviewer and journalist.
• Dick Johnson, 69, veteran Maine radio broadcaster and news reporter, complications of a heart attack.
• Bob Lassiter, 61, American talk radio personality.
• Al Lewis, 82, American actor (Grandpa Munster on The Munsters), Green Party political candidate, restaurateur, and radio host.
• Don Lunn, 72, Australian breakfast radio DJ.
• Scott Mateer, 46, American Grammy-nominated songwriter and DJ, complications of diabetes and high blood pressure.
• Gwen Meredith, 98, Australian writer of all 5,795 episodes of the long-running radio serial Blue Hills, after heart trouble.
• Mavor Moore, 87, Canadian writer, actor, radio & TV producer and founder of theatrical institutions, illness.
• Lister Sinclair, 85, Canadian playwright and CBC broadcaster, pulmonary embolism.
• Jack Snow, 62, former National Football League player and radio announcer, complications from a staph infection.
• Ralph Story, 86, American radio broadcaster and television show host (The $64,000 Challenge), emphysema.
• October 20 — Mary Gay Taylor, 71, radio journalist for WCBS-AM.
• Stan Torgerson, 82, radio announcer for Ole Miss football and basketball games.
• Michael Vestey, 61, former BBC correspondent and radio critic on The Spectator magazine.
• Paul Walters, 59, BBC radio and TV producer.
• Ross Warneke, 54, Australian television commentator and radio broadcaster, cancer.
• Neville Willoughby, 69, Jamaican radio broadcaster, car accident.
• Robert Eric Wone, 32, American general counsel to Radio Free Asia, stabbing.