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NAT WRIGHT Has Died

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Tommy Roberts Jr

Broadcast Pioneers member Nat Wright passed away on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 26th. Nat's health problems go back for a little while. In October of 2008, he was hospitalized for being anemic. Then, he went to rehab. On November 5th of 2008, he had open heart surgery. He was recuperating well for few days when his heart shut down. He was hospitalized for 21 days and then in rehab returning home for Christmas of last year.
 
Learned of his passing this morning at church. Nat has always been supportive of my work at RDV-FM and will be greatly missed. A service to celebrate his life will be held on Saturday, December 5th at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Glenside at 11AM.

The following is from the Philadelphia Broadcast Pioneers' website

Nat Wright. Nat joined WIP in August of 1961 from WWDC in the nation's capital. In Washington, Wright did a popular personality music program and also had news experience. Upon joining WIP, he became a swing guy. That is, working 3 days a week doing news and 3 days doing fill in music. In the fall of 1967, station program director Dick Carr (a member of the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia) asked Wright to do the all night show (The Dawn Patrol) just for a little while until WIP could figure out what to do in that time period. He became Nat, the All Night Rat and did the shift for 17 years.

Bill Hower
 
After that I remember him being at WBUD in Trenton where he fit in well with their MOR/Oldies/Standards/personality format along with WNEW's Jack Pinto.

WIP had a great lineup of unique personalities in it's day. Of the 1960's group, Bill Weber still has a 2 hour weekday shift on WHAT. How many homes in the region back then had a scratch pad by the phone with the running total of the Cash Call jackpot?
 
Oh yeah, we had a blackboard (one of those "message center" things) by the phone with the Cash Call amount in the corner. I remember when I was old enough to update the amount, I was eager to do it.
 
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