Dick Pike
Dick Pike (November 7, 1924 – August 16, 2003) was a disc jockey and general manager who turned WNOP (740) into a jazz station.
Dick (Richard) Pike | |
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Born | November 7, 1924 Chicago, Illinois |
Died | August 16, 2003 78) Elsmere, KY | (aged
Career | |
Station(s) | WNOP |
Station(s) | WJW-TV |
Style | Disc Jockey |
Career
Pike worked most of his career at WNOP, a jazz station with studios in Newport, KY. When Pike returned to the station in 1961 - as General Manager - he instituted the Jazz format with his personal record collection.[1]
Pike also spent time at television station WJW, in Cleveland, before returning to WNOP as general manager. [2]
Pike also introduced acts at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1964 for George Wein[3]
Death
Pike died August 16, 2003 in Elsmere, Kentucky.[1]
gollark: I really need to figure out why monitoring seems to say that the fans hit 19k RPM every few minutes, though, since they... are not 19kRPM fans.
gollark: It's also maxing out half my CPU cores or something.
gollark: Apparently this AV1 transcode is running at literally less than 1FPS.
gollark: GIF badAVIF good
gollark: GIF is generally not the best format.
References
- Dick Pike Obituary
- Billboard, Dec 28, 1959, page 17 https://books.google.com/books?id=0QoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA14&dq=dick+pike+WNOP&as_brr=1&ei=I87VStPFJqbKyQTVj7meDg#v=onepage&q=dick%20pike%20WNOP&f=false
- "Record Research" (62). August 1964. Cite journal requires
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