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   Louis Epstein to radioacti...@gmail.com   
   Re: Ken Calvert, WJR sports guy and FM d   
   23 Dec 23 00:34:46   
   
   From: le@main.lekno.ws   
      
   radioacti...@gmail.com  wrote:   
   > Late last night received this sad news (from a Motown pal) that my former   
   > part-time WJR colleague Ken Calvert has died.   
      
   Not to be confused with the Congressman from the "Inland Empire"   
   region of California...though they were close in age.   
      
   > Didn't know well the Detroit Piston's play-by-play voice (and never worked   
   > with him on any broadcasts), but I always found him an upbeat, genial fellow   
   > when occasionally running into him in the WJR/Detroit station hallways during   
   > my mid-1990s tenure there as a commercial newstalk call-in host.   
   >   
   > I'll leave it to his many Great Lakes State fans to add more data, at least   
   > until Wiki editors catch up with his unfortunate demise.   
   >   
   > BRYAN STYBLE/Florida   
      
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