WFUV/New York City PD Rita Houston Dies at 59
| RADIO ONLINE | Thursday, December 17, 2020 | 8:26am CT |
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 Rita Houston |
It is with great sadness that WFUV shares the news that Program Director Rita Houston, the north star of the station's sound and its public service, passed away on Tuesday, 12/15 after fighting cancer for six years.
"She was a New York original, a trailblazing woman of exceptional talent," writes Chuck Singleton, FUV's general manager.
As impressive as all of Rita Houston's awards, accolades and accomplishments might have been, it was her luminous, lionhearted spirit that touched us most profoundly. Two weeks ago, Rita remotely recorded her final episode of "The Whole Wide World" with her longtime friend and colleague, Paul Cavalconte. That last show will air tomorrow, 12/18, beginning at 6pm EST. Paul describes it as "a frank, unvarnished, brave expression of who [Rita] is and how deeply this connection to music, and her audience, matters to her."
