Pat O'Day dies at 85

Pat O'Day, afternoon DJ at KJR in Seattle from 1960 to 1974, died August 4 at his home in the San Juan Islands. He was 85. O’Day, born Paul Wilburn Berg in Norfolk, Nebraska, studied broadcasting at Tacoma Vocational-Technical Institute (now Bates Technical College) and began in radio in 1956 at KVAS in Astoria, Oregon.  He later worked at KLOG in Kelso and KUTI in Yakima.  In January 1959, he moved to KAYO in Seattle and changed his name to Pat O'Day because Dale Berg "had no magic." O'Day joined KJR on New Year's Day 1960 and eventually became program director and station manager.  He remained at KJR until 1974.