Formerly with Citadel Media, Rick Dees has moved his programming lineup 2/1 to Westwood One, including Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 and Top 20 countdowns for CHR, Hot AC, and Mainstream AC Stations. The ...
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Rick Dees has signed a production deal with imaging outfit Benztown. Benztown will provide Dees Entertainment with production services for its portfolio of programs hosted by the award-winning ...
Rick Dees has signed on to be the voice of the Rewind TV network. Nexstar Media Group is launching the digital subchannel September 1. “Rewind TV will air the TV comedy hits of the 80s, 90s and beyond ...
Five days before his song "Disco Duck" hit #1, Rick Dees was fired. At the time, Dees was working as a DJ on the Memphis AM station WMPS. He'd recorded "Disco Duck" as a sort of side-hustle goof, but ...
One of my best friends in college was Rigdon Osmond Dees III of Greensboro. You know him as Rick Dees of radio and music fame. I first heard Rig on the radio in Greensboro while traveling from ...
Rick Dees, shown here ahead of the 2001 Radio Music Awards. Twenty years later, he's now a Rewind TV station voice. From Disco Duck and ruling Memphis’ morning show ratings in the mid-1970s to his ...
Los Angeles has many extremely talented and popular radio personalities. We reminisced about Jim Healy recently, plenty of others come to mind: Casey Kasem, “Emperor” Bob Hudson, Wink Martindale, Al ...
Five days before his song "Disco Duck" hit #1, Rick Dees was fired. At the time, Dees was working as a DJ on the Memphis AM station WMPS. He'd recorded "Disco Duck" as a sort of side-hustle goof, but ...