THE SHORT AND REVEALING BIO OF KEN KURTIS

• Raised mostly in Dover, Delaware

• A Jerry Mahoney dummy got him started

• First acting role - President of the Moon (6th grade)

• Speech team in high school

• Went to Northwestern University

• Reported on the NU student strikes of 1970 (post-Kent State)

• Led the NU student strikes of 1972

• Turned down a meeting with Alexander Haig

• Graduated with BS/Speech from Northwestern

• Father was a oenophile

• Fired from first radio job after 40 days & nights

• Always #1-rated DJ in his time slots

• Program Director of the Year - 1976

• Have two gold records ("Dancing Queen" & "After the Lovin' ")

• First L.A. TV job was "WKRP in Cincinnati"

• Spent about 20 years with KCET as "The King of Pledge"

• Dove to 3,500 feet in the Alvin submarine

• Hand-feeds Leopard Sharks and other fish weekly at the Aquarium of the Pacific

• Successfully challenged an FBI subpoena - 2002

• Has seen five total solar eclipses, including 2024 in Dallas
(six if you count Shanghai in 2009 but we were clouded/rained out)

• Flew in the Goodyear blimp (twice!!!)

• Has cradled the Stanley Cup

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