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 is 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
• Touched the Rosetta Stone
• Learned to scuba dive in 1978
• Hand-feeds large Leopard Sharks every Thursday morning
• Moved to L.A. in 1981
• First L.A. job was "WKRP in Cincinnati"
• Spent about 20 years with KCET as "The King of Pledge"
• Dove to 3500 feet in the Alvin submarine
• Has seen two total solar eclipses
• Successfully challenged an FBI subpoena - 2002
• Has cradled the Stanley Cup
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