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Bio of Brad Edwards
EDWARDS, Brad: KGBS, 1969-71; XPRS, 1971-73; KUTE, 1973; KDAY, 1974; KGBS, 1975-77; KFI, 1983. Brad, born Claude Hooten, died July 24, 2019, following a bout with cancer. He had retired to Mesa, Arizona, after selling his radio station KUNK (SKUNK/fm) in Ft. Bragg.
“He was a big-hearted kind dude who’ll be truly missed by those of us lucky enough who knew or worked with him,” said Bill Gardner. Bill Powers remembered: “He was the first one I broke the ice with on getting into radio and he was so kind to answer my various questions.”
“When I left KGBS in 1977 after the station became automated, I went to Tehran to work at the National Iranian Radio & TV Network. They reneged on everything they had promised. I had to make a daring escape from the country,” remembered Brad when interviewed for Los Angeles Radio People.
Brad was a graduate of Montebello High School, and he grew up in Grant’s Pass, Oregon. After his Tehran experience, he worked at KDIA-San Francisco and KLIV-San Jose at the same time. During the next decade he worked at KAGY-El Paso, “Magic 108”-St. Louis and two stations in Houston, “Magic 102” and KKBQ.