Chapman realized that if he won Fort Worth, he could almost double the stations numbers. Fort Worth was the butt of all the jokes by DJs sitting in Dallas talking about people over in Fort Worth. Like a handful of other stations in town, at least until they all change formats again. It was the only way we could get a feel for the publics impressions on what we were doing. A little egotistical, perhaps. The individuality, the uniqueness. Suite 2100 I once wrote Ron Chapman meant more to Dallas radio than electricity. Ive got a speech at the Board of Realtors this morning, and Im getting my hair done., And I said, Hes giving me a real nice blow job., Oh, Lord. Thats what we started doing. Photos: Chapman Today: Dan Sellers; Chapman on TV: Courtesy of ABC Radio Networks. Dallas Cowboys want another playmaker on offense. Chapman first hit the Dallas airwaves in 1959 on the Mighty KLIF. Posted Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 8:33 pm CT. Dallasites are grieving the death today of deejay Ron Chapman, a man whose voice was a constant companion throughout the Metroplex for more than five . Ronald Chapman July 23, 2021 Ronald Monroe Chapman, 77, of Jordan, died peacefully in his sleep at 2:32 am on July 23, 2021 while at home surrounded by his loving family.
Late Radio Legend Ron Chapman Changed The Way Dallas Sounded The longtime host of KVIL died in April 2021 at the age of 85. Jody Dean was Chapmans producer at KVIL from 1987 to 1994. The late Ron Chapman, who died April 26, 2021 at the age of 85, as seen in 2014. Jun 16, 2005. Theyre gone. Maybe for forty-eight hours, max. He wants to control that station twenty-four hours a day, hotlining jocks in the middle of the night for mispronouncing some street name, says Tom Tradup, now general manager of a Chicago station and, until last July, the general manager at KRLD. CBS Radio's local market manager Brian Purdy, in announcing the format change, made just a brief nod to the station's past by insisting 103.7 is "not your mother's radio station any more," which hit a little close to home. The man had to be on the air at 5:30 in the morning. And this was totally not intended. The money was donated to charity. A computerized Young Chang Grand Piano is playing Gershwin via floppy disk over near the bar. Dallas, Texas 75201. So he and a couple of radio buds ( Hugh Lampman and Jack Schell) got some backers and found a little building on Mockingbird across from the Dallas Country Club, where they launched a station called KVIL. When he started hosting SumpN Else, I was a kid, and we loved to dance, and I would go over there to dance.
Ron Chapman: Final Morning on KLUV - Rainbow Connection Tribute (with His talent rose above us all. About 20 years ago, Id barely started working at KVIL and was the overnight deejaythe lowest life form in radio, with an equivalent lifestyle.
Ron Chapman back in Radio A D Magazine feature on Chapman from December 1989, reproduced this week in honour of his life, stated that he had a wife called Nance (pronounced Nancy) Murray, for three years at that point. Turns out that a few years back, during a race around the world for a promotion, Chapman arrived late at the airportno ticket, no cash, no passport. His family is asking for time right now to process the loss and thanks the community for . pic.twitter.com/XuaDWmWvEm. So settle down with one of these throws. Chapman was known for doing the unexpected, once airing his show from a haunted house and another time while skydiving. "And when he left, that was it.". They thought we were going 50 miles. KVIL was always my mom's station, hogging up most of the pre-sets in the '76 Cordoba and later the '79 LeBaron station wagon; it was either Ron Chapman or a Helen Reddy 8-track. Born October 11, 1942 in Ashland, KY, he was the son of the late Otis Guy and . We could go New Age. The Zoo crew used to regard KVIL's mushy adult-contemporary playlist as a punchline.
Ron Chapman American radio broadcaster (KVIL) dead at age 85 But the precise age, her birthday, and zodiac remain unknown. I just never mellowed out. Chapman admits. That was, perhaps, the last Most Meaningful Moment on local radio. Chapman invited him to come watch the show at some point. Okay, so were in a commercial break. We did that to our audience constantly. Some 12,000 did, and KVIL donated $240,000 to charity.
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Dallas radio legend Ron Chapman dies at 85 Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. When the show aired its final broadcast, Chapman played as its swan song Turn! Thats just the wrapper. Bud Buschardt worked as the unit manager on Away We Go and Sumpn Else, two television shows that Chapman did for WFAA Channel 8 in the mid-60s. Especially this woman right here., And Brad says, Well, how about if we start the play and say, The quarterback comes up to the line of scrimmage. Chapman says he and Nancy were in excellent health at that point but age was a factor for him wanting to retire. Oh, Lord. Dean later called it a dream come true. Born plain old Ralph Chapman in Haverhill, Massachusetts, Ron began performing at the ripe age of three. Skip to content. But there is more to the message than merely commercialized feminism.
Ron Chapman Obituary KVIL - - InsideEko.com News Media | Facebook A ratings war is brewing between two oldies stations, and a controversial gadget might decide who wins. A secretary, yeah, sure, absolutely, but she wont be for long. Warmth, a man who seems to genuinely feel that his biggest contribution to the world is sending his listeners off to work happy and chipper, so that each in her own little way can help make a kinder, gentler Dallas. Ron Chapman was born on January 25, 1936 in Newton, Massachusetts, USA. The station would cycle through many owners, all of whom readily admittedthey were really buying Chapman-- "a warm and fuzzy tyrant," D called him in 1989, which he took as compliment. Ron Chapman made Vocal Majority . And so, Ive always wanted to be YA-HA! Give me a spotlight and let me go., On Monday, the Texas Radio Hall of Fame paid tribute to Chapman by noting on Facebook: Three time radio Hall of Famer and Dallas radio ICON Ron Chapman has passed. To this day I still get the shakes whenever I hear Chicago's "If You Leave Me Now," Gerry Rafferty's "Right Down the Line"and anything by Anne Murray or Barry Manilow. He died Monday at age 85. He also hosted a televised series from Northpark Center in the 1960's for a three-year stint. I was off the wall, and he loved it. And yet, he would never ask me to be one of the [featured] dancers. KVIL-FM, born in Highland Park on August 25, 1961,died, officially, on Jan. 18, 2017.
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RADIO: Thank You, Ron - D Magazine Broadcasting great Ron Chapman, who introduced himself to Dallas radio in 1959 under the pseudonym of Irving Harrigan on AM pioneer KLIF, and who elevated his legend after more than 30 years at KVIL-FM and another five at KLUV-FM, died Monday of natural causes. Hollywood actress Morgan Fairchild first met the radio maestro when she was a student at Lake Highlands High School. Legendary radio host Ron Chapman has passed away. Chapman's booming voice is now a shadow of its former self, the result of a stroke suffered just before Christmas in 2012. He moved to Dallas in 1959 a year before the Dallas Cowboys became a team and was known for a decade as Irving Harrigan, who shared a microphone with Charlie Brown. His co-hosts real name was Jack Woods, and together the two became a radio juggernaut at KLIF, known then as The Mighty 1190. Their rise coincided with the Top 40 dynamism of the Beatles, the Beach Boys and the Rolling Stones.
Why Ron Chapman Was An All-Time Great - Radio Ink So, Chapman can afford to surprise his wife with a 4.9-carat diamond, keep houses in town and country, and fly to Madrid on a whim., Born in January 1936, Ralph Frederick Chapman was the youngest of three children raised in the back rooms of his dads store during the Depression. And brother, let me tell you something: It was a different age., In 1989, The Dallas Morning News devoted a High Profile cover story to Chapman, noting that peers described him variously as a genius, tyrant and hero. Here and there, she reveals a snippet about her husband. You tend to say things like the mayor when you mean Dallas and the mayor of Fort Worth when youre talking about them. Before SumpN Else finished its run, Fairchild had already scored her first movie credit, appearing as Faye Dunaways double in the Oscar-winning film, Bonnie and Clyde. An announcement in this newspaper heralded his arrival, along with the promise that KVIL would play music that was "always in good taste, but contemporary in all ways" -- a rather unwieldy slogan. KVIL is a commercial radio station dual-licensed to Highland Park and Dallas, Texas. Everyones going to do a 50-mile hike. This is a secret, but we take a lot of the staff to the big derrick at Six Flags and put them on top. By Emily Jimenez, NewsRadio 1080 KRLD. Nance prayed for her. Info. First published on April 26, 2021 / 11:54 AM. You had left "Sump'n Else" and you're still at WFAA directing the church remotes. He was so popular in Dallas in the 70s, 80s and 90s that his station, KVIL, sold for more than the Dallas Cowboys. On the mike, butter wouldnt melt in his mouth.
Broadcast Hall of Famer Ron Chapman, Who Began at WHAV in 1953, Dies at 85 The Left Hand of God is Fort Worth. I can tell you that little secret and know the competition will pick up on it, and theyll work on it. Hes like the man who juggles chain saws while singing Verdi. Paul: Okay, so let's go back to Bud's career. Jody Dean was Chapman's producer at KVIL from 1987 to 1994.
Robert Bird Brown Obituary - Dead | Robert Bird Brown Cause of Death April 26, 2021 Son of Mercy 0. Ron Chapman received an obituary from the KVIL community. In honor of his life, we reproduce this 1989 profile of Chapman. While Ron was 85 years old at the time of his death, Nance Chapman's age remains a mystery. Baby, it's cold outside.
Ron Chapman, DFW radio legend, dies at age 85 - Blogger Consultants studied and copied KVIL, launching dozens of lite-rock imitations across the country. The Texas Radio Hall of Fame shared the news of the passing of Dallas radio icon Ron Chapman. He was an actor, known for Dallas Cowboys . She said, How do you expect me to do a good job after all Ive been through? I said, Thats it, weve been talking too long. Ronald V. Chapman, age 80, passed away Tuesday, October 11, 2022 at Mount Carmel East Hospital in Columbus. From 1965 to 1968, he became Dallas rarefied answer to Dick Clark and American Bandstand, as host of the wildly popular Sumpn Else, a teen dance show carried live from NorthPark Center on WFAA-TV (Channel 8). To a person, everyone interviewed for this story believed that Chapman, if riled, could end his career. He always brought light to every room entered. Who could follow Ron Chapman? He knew you dont talk down to your audience, you speak up to them, and thats when Ron enjoyed his greatest success., Dean added that Chapman helped transform radio in the city into a shining example of what the media can do and should be. At the haunted house, Chapman took along a producer and equipped her with a microphone. Done in slick, black marble, it is an oversized rectangle, big enough for Ron to pace in. To pace in. And its also a public service if you use it right.. For nearly thirteen years, with a few scattered intermissions. He directed his in more positive directions, into the station and into work.. He served with the Army in South Korea from 1957 to 1959, producing a radio show for Voice of the United Nations Command.
Meet Jody Dean: A man for this season: Lost job leads to a better life Even Ron Chapman was not at all shocked to hear of its demise when I called him Wednesday afternoon to tell him his beloved KVIL was now, um, the Amp. . When Ron met Nance twenty years ago at a charity telethon, he was immediately struck by her good looks, he says, recalling that he trotted out a bunch of glib compliments before saying, By the way, Im Ron Chapman. Her reply: Oh. Hes now a program director for ABC Dallas radio and an adjunct professor of TV production at the University of North Texas.We did Sumpn Else at NorthPark. And then they put me on from midnight to six. Trust me, Chapman didnt laugh at all. She loved going to NorthPark to dance with other teenagers during the daily weekday broadcast of SumpN Else. I dont believe that any one person can be in that much control and yet allow for the station to be the living, breathing organization it has to be in order to survive. We just hit. RIP Ron pic.twitter.com . To Chapman, a working divorced mother with two kids was the woman of his dreams. anyway? And Ron said, Why, I am in charge of the talent show, of which there wasnt one at the time. Hes now retired and owns a winery called Orangewoods near San Diego.In, Im going to say 62 or 63, Jack Kennedy, I think, did a 50-mile hike. He will later say that its almost like having an extra lobe in his brain. I tell them, you cant do that.
Dallas Radio Icon Ron Chapman Dies at 85 | KLIF-AM @garycogill : RT @HawkeyeOnAir: I'm saddened to tell you that legendary Dallas DJ Ron Chapman has passed away at 85. The store was open from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. As writer Diane Reischel put it in The News story: The store was the childrens living room, the customers their audience., His sister, Florence Littauer, said her baby brother was so clever and funny that people would pay me for him to speak. As The News noted, The parents his mother was a violinist challenged the children to think creatively. "It's a shame it's gone, but KVIL had a great history," he said. In 1968, Chapman joined KVIL-FM, a station known for pioneering the Adult Contemporary (AC) format. And Ron says, When youre doing your broadcast, I want you to think that these people here are your audience. April 26, 2021 / 11:54 AM In 1969, Chapman joined the staff of KVIL-FM/Dallas-Fort . In 1968, Chapman joined a team that purchased KVIL-FM, a station known for pioneering the Adult Contemporary (AC) format. He is an amalgamation of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader, a warm, fuzzy presence who intrudes benignly into the consciousness of hundreds of thousands of women every morning. I cannot say I will miss KVIL, mostly because I haven't listened to it in years -- couldn't tell you its format since, oh, 1985? In those days KVIL was so big the Postal . The radio industry took to social media to reflect on Chapman's life and career. He was one of the greatest radio people to ever sit behind the mic. And the guy was the typical model. Early on. Long before the KLUV World Tour, our travel program began as the KVIL World Tour, pioneered by my parents and Dallas Radio legend Ron Chapman. Gratefully I accepted, and drove off in his North Dallas wheels while they towed my Fort Worth bomb away. Chapman knows how to be reassuring to women who are fighting an uphill battle day after day. His family is asking for time right now to process the loss and thanks the community for their "kindness, understanding and prayers.". Chapman joined KVIL in 1969 where he would remain a fixture for 32 years. By signing up you agree to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, Stand with us in our mission to discover and uncover the story of North Texas, We can't say goodbye to KVIL until its legendary voice Ron Chapman gives it a proper sign-off, CBS Radio has rebranded 103.7 on Your FM Dial as the Amp, Charles Meeks acquired a broadcast license from the feds to open up shop in 1958, Woman arrested in killing of 3 children at Italy, Texas, home in Ellis County, Frisco Liberty battles back vs. Lubbock Cooper to claim UIL Class 5A state championship, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones defers comment on revival of sexual harassment lawsuit, What we know after 3 children killed, 2 wounded at Ellis County home, The Cowboys are closer than you think to a total makeover at running back, American Airlines, flight attendants file for mediation during contract negotiations, New Uptown office tower lands second major lease, Years after North Texas bid for Amazons second headquarters, retail giant halts plan, Mesquite to become the site of new 2,500-home community, North Texas builders see influx of activity in new year, but challenges persist, Mark Wahlberg pours tequila for fans at Dallas restaurant during thunderstorm, Dude Perfects trick-shot town could find a home in North Texas, or somewhere else, Slow start for Luka Doncic? That's a very sad commentary on the times. But what me and Tom Murphy did was put together a morning show for teens, Murphy and Harrigan. The rest, as they say, is history. After 45 years in radio, Ron Chapman retired from his morning show on June 24, 2005.