Veteran broadcaster Lyal Richardson dies at 92
Veteran radio and TV broadcaster Lyal Richardson has passed away at the age of 92.
A mentor to many emerging broadcasters, Richardson was working on a radio show on the Gold Coast when he died yesterday.
Said to be one of the oldest living DJs in the world, working well into his nineties, for years Richardson fronted the radio show Sentimental Journey on Saturday Night on the ABC.
Richardson also worked on the show Toast of the Town on 2KY, and Australia’s first fully integrated sports show on TV, the Westinghouse World of Sport on Nine.
Graham Webb, a radio broadcaster who hosted Sydney’s first Top 40 in the 1950’s and how works at Bay FM 99.3, paid tribute to “friend, mentor, colleague and fellow DJ” Richardson in an audio tribute sent to Mumbrella:
What a trouper! We’ve lost one of the greats. I used to listen to him in the fifties, the late show on 2KY when he played all the ‘platters that mattered’, stuff the mainstream stations didn’t have: great rock’n’roll that even Lawsie, the Good Guys and Withers didn’t seem to be able to obtain — and usually well before them — even if they did catch up. Gonna gather up my ageing bones and play some, Elvis, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee in his memory! Pity the neigbours, guys!
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