Rock Radio Scrapbook
AIRCHECK OF THE WEEK
For week of
November 2, 2014
Edition #807
Talent: DALE
DORMAN
Station: WRKO
Boston
Date: January
3, 1970
Time: 8:40
"He was the king."
Boston was Dale Dorman's kind of town.
Dorman spent 40 years on the air in the Hub, starting in 1968 at Top 40 rocker WRKO. In 1978 he moved to WVBF for a couple of years before beginning an 18-year stay at WXKS (KISS 108). Dorman spent his last five years in radio doing weekends at WODS (Oldies 103) ahead of his retirement in 2008.
Dorman got his start in 1964 at WCHN-AM-FM in Norwich, N.Y., not far from Homer where the future jock was raised. He went to WOLF Syracuse, N.Y., in 1965 before heading west for late '60s stops in KYNO Fresno, Calif., KBTR Denver, and KFRC San Francisco. Then it was on to Boston where he spent the remainder of his 44-year career.
"Dale was a really smart guy," said Matt Siegel, host of the "Matty in the Morning" show on KISS-108. "His work ethic was tremendous, he was very hardworking and loyal. He was one of those guys that everyone in radio knew of. He was the king."
Dorman was inducted in the Massachusetts Radio Hall of Fame in 2010. He died October 21, 2014 in Tewkesbury, Mass., after a long illness. He was 71.
Hear Dale Dorman at WRKO here.
(The Bill Dulmage Collection)
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