Joseph Albert Finan

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Sixty year veteran radio personality Joe Finan was born July 6, 1927 in Bulter, Pennsylvania. Died at 79 years of age in December, 2006. Served in the United States Navy 1944-45 and attended Carnegie Tech, now Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Started broadcasting career as weatherman in early 1950's at KYW television and radio personality on KYW radio in Cleveland, Ohio. While a top rated disc jockey at KYW, Finan was implicated in the 1960 payola scandal that also named Alan Freed and others. It led to Finan's departure from KYW and ended the career of Freed, who first coined the name Rock and Roll.

Finan was hired by KTLN-Denver owner Richard K. Wheeler and named program director of the top forty station. By 1963 Joe Finan pioneered a talk radio format and renamed the station K-Talk with the call letters KTLK. Finan, as a colorful and controversal talk show host was credited with the expose' of the Denver police department that became a major scandal and led to many changes inside that department.

Joe Finan returned to work in Cleveland radio before becoming a top rated talk show host on WNIR radio in Akron, Ohio until his death in 2006 at 79 years of age.

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