Pat O'Day
Pat O'Day (born 1934 as Paul W. Berg) is a Pacific Northwest broadcaster and promoter. He is probably best known as the afternoon drive personality at Seattle's KJR 950 in the 1960s, he would eventually become program director and general manager. He owned KYYX – FM 96.5 Radio in Seattle in the mid-1970s and early 1980s. This frequency is now occupied by KJAQ. The current KYYX station in another city has no connection.
Starting in 1967, O'Day served as race announcer and commentator during Seafair for various radio and TV stations, most recently KIRO TV. The television station, however, announced it was parting ways with O'Day in 2013 and he would not return to broadcast the race.
Sets Guinness world record for water skiing non-stop (around Lake Washington)—four hours, fifty-two minutes, in 1959.
He is responsible for bringing the Seattle music scene to national prominence.
In 1998 a plaque featuring Pat O'Day with a photograph of him was added to the permanent disc jockey exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum in Cleveland, Ohio.
O'Day has lived in the San Juan Islands where he sells real estate.
O'Day is the author of, It Was All Just Rock 'n' Roll, by Pat O'Day and Jim Ojala, detailing his work in radio and the concert promotion company, Concerts West. (first edition published Oct 18, 2002, second edition, It Was All Just Rock-'n'-Roll II: A Return to the Center of the Radio & Concert Universe, published Dec 2003) ISBN
He has three sons (Garry, Jerry, and Jeff) and one daughter (Kelsey). Although a reputation for excessive drinking hurt him early in his career, he entered Schick Shadel Hospital in 1986 for treatment. Most, recently, he has been Schick Shadel's spokesman in both radio and television advertisements. In 2007 Pat O'Day joined more than two dozen other radio and music industry leaders as a member of the nominating committee of the Hit Parade Hall of Fame.
His story was featured in a 2015 documentary about radio DJs called I Am What I Play, directed by Roger King.
Almost everything known (published) about Pat O'Day's work in the radio and live music concert businesses can be found in O'Day's autobiography, It Was All Just Rock-'n'-Roll II: A Return to the Center of the Radio & Concert Universe.
The book is an exposition of O'Day's career as an on-air personality and manager in the radio broadcast industry, and an insider's view into the genesis of the modern live music concert industry. O'Day reveals many personal stories and cogent revelations about life in the entertainment and broadcast industries, as well as his exploits and accomplishments in the world of turbine jet-powered hydroplane boating, and his "U-95."
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