Ken Copper

Ken Copper came to WDAE in May of 1975 from the Lakeland/Winter Haven market.  He took over mornings from Rick Morgan who had seen the insanity of waking each day at 4 a.m. and had moved to the afternoons.  Bill Campbell did middays for a while and then John DeHaven saddled up when Bill left for Atlanta and WGST. Marc Champion, Page Bryant and Stan Major were doing talk shows in the evenings.  Ron Ebben, Dennis Crandall, Bob Clark and Katherine Bradley constituted most of the excellent news department.  Ken always enjoyed his morning “chat with Ron” which was never designed to be heard by management.  Lt. Al Ford was in the air every morning and Pat George, “boy janitor to the stars”, was cleaning up, hanging around and chasing women.

In August of 1976 Ken was hired for afternoon drive at KOGO in San Diego.  After five years in San Diego, Ken began what he refers to as his “West Coast Tour” of:  Mornings at K-101 in San Francisco, and KTAC in Seattle/Tacoma.  Then it was on to ownership of KKLZ-FM in Las Vegas, which he put on the air in February of 1984.  Tiring of a “real job” with real responsibilities, Ken sold the station and returned to San Diego in 1986.  Back in San Diego, Ken spent five years in afternoon drive at KCBQ AM & FM, seven years in morning drive at KBZT-FM and for the last few years has been holding forth in the afternoon at Clear Channel’s KPOP with partner Cynthia Heath-Kerrigan.

Ken spends his mornings doing voice over work for various regional and national advertisers.  Among his clients are:  Fox Sports, Upper Deck, Featherlite, The History Channel, Hasbro and others.  Ken is still married to Linda and has two daughters:  Kelly, an artist living in New York City and Katie, an assistant D.A. in San Diego.