Rick Dees is returning to morning radio but is bumping country music from L.A.’s airwaves in the process. Emmis Communications’ KZLA-FM, which has aired a country format since the early 1980s, stunned ...

Rick Dees doesn’t have a face for radio. Turns out that’s a good thing — and pretty rare in the biz, where talent is notoriously camera-unfriendly. When KIIS-FM hired Dees to host mornings in 1982, ...

I grew up listening to Rick Dees. He arrived in Los Angeles to work at KHJ way back in early 1979 when I was 16 years old. KHJ program director Chuck Martin, in an extremely successful attempt to ...