Dick Burch ― Overnight Jock #1 ― March, 1967
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| Dick "Buffalo" Birch's claim to fame is
that while he was hired as one of the very first WRKO jocks, he did just
ONE show! The story goes that the station first ran jock-less overnight, awaiting the arrival of Burch. When Burch finally arrived and kicked off the new station as WRKO, at midnight. However, the famous strike began two weeks into the first month of WRKO, and Burch reportedly couldn't afford to wait out the strike (you don't get paid while you're striking), and so he moved on. (Ironically, Burch's previous position was at RKO General's WOR-FM, where he was the station's first morning-drive personality at the new album-rock station) When I found him (by phone) in 1999, Dick was living in California. |
| Radio Timeline | ||||||
| APD = Assistant PD | MD = Music Director | MH = Morning Host | NX = News | NXD = News Director | OM = Operations Manager | PD = Program Director |
| Station | Freq. | Location | From | To | Notes |
| KAND | 1310 | Dallas TX | 7-1961 | 10-1961 | (station info may be wrong) |
| KOMY | 1240 | Watsonville CA | 12-1961 | 4-1962 | |
| KEWB | 910 | Oakland CA | 4-1962 | 7-1962 | |
| KROY | 1240 | Sacramento CA | 10-1962 | 10-1963 | MH got Robert W. Morgan a job there |
| KISN | San Jose CA | 1963 | (station info may be wrong) | ||
| KXOA | 1470 | Sacramento CA | 1964 | 1965 | |
| KOL | 1300 | Seattle WA | 4-1966 | ||
| WOR-FM | 98.7 | New York NY | 7-1966 | (AoR) | |
| WRKO | 680 | Boston MA | 3-13-1967 | left when station's union went on strike | |
| KILT | 610 | Houston TX | 1968 | ||
| WCBS-FM | 101.1 | New York NY | 1-1971 | ||
| WHEN | 620 | Syracuse NY | 1972 | ||
| WMAQ | 670 | Chicago IL | 11(?)-1973 | 1974 | |
| KHJ | 930 | Los Angeles CA | late 1983 | 1985 |
| If you can help fill in the blanks, please let me know! |
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| Dick Burch at KXOA (1965) | Dick Burch in 1966 | Dick Burch in 1967 |
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