A STAR IS BORN! ‘THE LIFE AND TIMES OF DICK PURTAN’
This tribute video ‘The Life And Times Of Dick Purtan,’ was produced in April 2004 as part of the program to honor Dick Purtan with aLifetime Achievement Award presented by The Adcraft Club of Detroit and the Detroit Radio Advertising Group. It features a special collection of personal Purtan photographs that span the history of his career. On February 11, 2010, Dick Purtan announced that he would retire from radio and WOMC on March 26, 2010 — Steve SchramRadio personality Dick Purtan in the studios of Q95-FM in January 1992. Purtan, who has worked in Detroit radio for 45 years, broadcasted his last show at WOMC-FM on Friday, March 26, 2010. Purtan, while in retirement these days, is socially alive and well here, and you can find him anytime at his website today at dickpurtan.com (Photo credit: Detroit News)Former WNIC and WOMC radio executive Steve Schram with Dick Purtan at the 2005 Motor City Radio Reunion in Novi, MI., September 27, 2005. (The DP video presentation above courtesy Steve Schram; photo courtesy Scott Westerman)
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Great one! Great man too!