(by Editor-in-Chief Ed Ryan) So many of us can remember getting that Chickenman cassette in the mail and playing it over and over as soon as it arrived. The creation of one of radio’s most brilliant minds, turns 50 this year. Dick Orkin was born in Williamsport, PA, in 1933, and by age 16 he was ready to tackle radio.
Orkin began as a fill-in announcer at WKOK in Sunbury, PA. After earning his BA in speech and theater from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA, he attended the Yale School of Drama, then returned to Lancaster to become the news director at WLAN in 1959. Orkin would move on to KYW in Cleveland, and in 1967 he took a job as production director at WCFL in Chicago, where he created Chickenman.
We are proud to have Dick Orkin on the cover of the current issue of Radio Ink magazine. Interviewing such a creative genius was an extreme pleasure. And now we want you to read what Orkin had to say.
Here is our cover story interview with the great Dick Orkin
