Seattle Broadcasting Legend Pat O'Day Dead at 85
| RADIO ONLINE | Wednesday, August 5, 2020 | 12:06pm CT |
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Veteran Seattle air personality Pat O'Day has died at age 85. He passed away at his home in the San Juan Islands. O'Day was best known as the afternoon talent at Top 40 KJR-AM/Seattle in the 1960s, before becoming the station's Program Director and then General Manager. After leaving KJR in the late 1960s, he became a concert promoter, presenting tours for Jimi Hendrix, Elvis, Led Zeppelin, Chicago, The Beach Boys, The Eagles, Neil Diamond, Paul McCartney, Frank Sinatra and many others. During the 1970's and early 1980's he owned KYYX-FM/Seattle, now KJAQ-FM.
In a Facebook post, his son Jeff O'Day wrote, "The Pacific Northwest will always seem a little empty without the legendary Pat O'Day. All we can do is focus on the incredible role he had in making the Emerald City a better place to live, and the difference he made in people's lives."
His son continued, "As his son, I could have never imagined a better role model for me as a Father. I have never met a more faithful, loving husband to his wife Stephanie. He will be in my thoughts every day for the rest of my life."
