When Rick Dees left KIIS-FM after 23 years, it was treated more like a farewell than a new beginning. Truth is, Dees is more active today than ever, and we’re not just talking about his morning drive ...

One of my best friends in college was Rigdon Osmond Dees III of Greensboro. You know him as Rick Dees of radio and music fame. I first heard Rig on the radio in Greensboro while traveling from ...

Call it nostalgia. Call it boredom from hearing the Imanbek remix of “Roses” by Saint Jhn way too many times. Call it COVID-19 propelled mental instability. I’ve been listening to vintage airchecks of ...

Compass Media Networks & Marketing has struck an agreement with Dees Entertainment for affiliate and ad sales for all of the Rick Dees programming – primarily weekly countdown shows and daily long ...

Rick Dees has signed a production deal with imaging outfit Benztown. Benztown will provide Dees Entertainment with production services for its portfolio of programs hosted by the award-winning ...

This was posted on May 7, 2012 by RODNEY HO/[email protected] on his AJC Radio & TV Talk blog I am here to cement my reputation as the ultimate radio/chart geek. On Long Island in the 1980s, I grew up not ...

Five days before his song "Disco Duck" hit #1, Rick Dees was fired. At the time, Dees was working as a DJ on the Memphis AM station WMPS. He'd recorded "Disco Duck" as a sort of side-hustle goof, but ...

KOST (103.5 FM) listeners had a big surprise in store when they tuned in last Monday. Instead of morning woman Ellen K, they heard none other than Rick Dees. Dees, of course, was the longtime morning ...

Longtime radio staple Rick Dees, the host of the internationally syndicated "The Rick Dees Weekly Top 40," returns to a Los Angeles-based morning show on rhythmic adult contemporary station Hot 92.3… ...

Rick Dees, a morning-radio fixture for two decades at KIIS-FM (102.7), is returning to the L.A. airwaves May 4, when he takes over a.m. duties at KHHT-FM (92.3). “To be given this opportunity is just ...

After a seven-year absence, Rick Dees is returning to morning radio. For 23 years, Dees was the guy that woke LA up in the morning. The guy whose name is synonymous with morning radio will be ...