John Mack Flanagan (November 15, 1946 – March 31, 2018) was a
Top 40 radio
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Broadcast Legends the
Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame
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National Disk Jockey Hall of Fame Flanagan was born in Concordia, Kansas and moved to Roswell, New Mexico as a teenager. It was in Roswell that he first signed on to the radio, as an on-air host for the country music station KRSY. After a tour of duty as a radio broadcaster in Vietnam, Flanagan joined the air staff of San Francisco Top 40 powerhouse
KFRC ("The Big 610"), where his mid-day program followed that of
Dr. Don Rose
Don Rose (born Donald Duane Rosenberg; July 5, 1934 – March 30, 2005), also known as "Dr. Donald D. Rose" or just "Dr. Don," was an American radio personality on KFRC AM 610 in San Francisco, California from October 1973 to 1986. Prior to joi ...
. After leaving KFRC, he recorded commercials and voice-overs in a home studio before returning to live radio with KABL-FM, and finally retired from radio in 2000. In 2015 he published the autobiography, ''Tight & Bright: A Discjockey Vietnam Memoir''.
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1946 births
2018 deaths
American DJs
DJs from San Francisco