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Fred Ronald "Ron" Lundy (June 25, 1934 – March 15, 2010) was a popular radio announcer in New York City from the early-1960s to his retirement from WCBS-FM in 1997. He became known as one of the country's best-liked and most listened-to midday radio personalities, with more than thirty years on the air in the nation's largest metropolitan area.
Lundy was born June 25, 1934 in Memphis, Tennessee, the only child of Fred Sr., a railroad engineer, and Mary Lundy. He served in the United States Marine Corps after graduating from high school. Following the completion of his military stint, he... MORE
Fred Ronald "Ron" Lundy (June 25, 1934 – March 15, 2010) was a popular radio announcer in New York City from the early-1960s to his retirement from WCBS-FM in 1997. He became known as one of the country's best-liked and most listened-to midday radio personalities, with more than thirty years on the air in the nation's largest metropolitan area.
Lundy was born June 25, 1934 in Memphis, Tennessee, the only child of Fred Sr., a railroad engineer, and Mary Lundy. He served in the United States Marine Corps after graduating from high school. Following the completion of his military stint, he returned to his hometown and attended a local radio broadcasting school on the G.I. Bill. At the same time, he worked across the street at WHHM-AM, where he got his first on-air experience one night when he substituted for the regular disc jockey who failed to report for his shift. This resulted in Lundy being hired as a full-time radio announcer by Hodding Carter for WDDT-AM, the latter's new station in Greenville, Mississippi.
After a stop in Baton Rouge, Louisiana at WLCS-AM, Lundy was brought to WIL-AM in St. Louis, Missouri in 1960 by Dan Ingram, who was the station's program director until the LESS
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