Mary Turner, regarded as the pioneer of rock radio in Los Angeles on KMET-FM, has passed away. She was 76 years old. So, what led to her de@th? We will talk about that in the next paragraph.
Mary Turner Pattiz Cause of De@th
Turner lost her life after long battle with c@ncer on Tuesday at her home in Beverly Hills, according to Jarrett Bostwick, the executor of her estate.
Turner was considered as the female radio voice with the most listeners in the 1970s and early 1980s. She was dubbed “The Burner” by Peter Wolf of the J. Geils Band, and Los Angeles baby boomers most fondly recall her time on KMET, a legendary FM station that was a must-listen for rock enthusiasts in the 1970s and 1980s.
After men had long dominated the radio industry, Turner was one of the trailblazing females to be given opportunities behind the microphone in the early 1970s. She had her opportunity as FM rock music genres spread and provided a contrast to the condensed playlists and fast-paced format of top 40 AM stations.
Through the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service, Turner’s two nationally syndicated shows were broadcast to military personnel in 40 different nations on Westwood One, the corporation her late husband, media mogul Norman Pattiz, created. She also served as the host of a TWA airline’s in-flight music program. According to a 1981 Gallup study, 23.4 million people heard her voice each week.
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Bio Of Mary Turner Pattiz
Turner was born on February 4th, 1947, in Maryland. Turner intended to work as a TV producer or director after earning his degree from Indiana University in the late 1960s.
She relocated to San Francisco, where she worked as an operator at the label Autumn Records, where Sly Stone labored as a producer, before securing a position in the promotion division of the local TV station KNEW. The progressive radio format, which aired album cuts rather than merely the popular singles heard on the AM dial, was first developed by Tom Donahue, who is credited with inventing KSAN-FM, the station she eventually went to.
Turner held an engineering position at KSAN-FM and filled in on the radio occasionally. When KMET changed from a free-form “underground” station to a more mainstream album-oriented rock programming in 1972, she relocated to Los Angeles to join it. KMET, which billed itself as “The Mighty Met,” was the second-most-listened-to station in the Los Angeles market by the decade’s end.
Along with B. Mitchell Reed, Jim Ladd, and Jeff Gonzer, Turner came to be known as one of the station’s hallmark hosts. Young male listeners were particularly drawn to her glass-like vocal delivery, with one even attempting to enter the station after hours to see her, according to Ace Young, a friend and former coworker at KMET.
She was forced to travel with two sizable German shepherds as protection after the incident. Even in the cramped space of a little studio, they snuggled up next to her.
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