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Pat Kane

Pat Kain was a friend and such a great talent.
Please pray for his wife and baby.
 
I think it is still very shocking for a lot of people in the radio community to hear that Pat has passed. Just earlier this week I received an email from him indicating that he is ready to make a return to radio and was looking at opportunities.

I had the pleasure of working with him for a few years at FM 97 and we stayed good friends over the years. Pat was very creative, intelligent and a downright nice guy off the air.

I'd like to think that he really didn't die, that this is another one of his famous pranks but sadly that is not the case.

Today is a very sad day for those who knew him.
 
Worked with Pat during my time at Citadel when he was Production Director. Great guy, terrible loss.
 
One of my best friends in the world. Last week I spoke with him and he told me that his daughter was starting to get a personality and that it was amazing. It's tragic that his daughter won't get to see the personality that made Pat a legend. I'm gonna miss you man. :'(

Will
 
This is truly a very sad day. I am posting today to this because Pat is the reason I am in radio today. Pat brought me on his original night show at WLAN FM97 when I was 16 years old as his intern. He taught me everything about this crazy business. The good, the bad, the ugly. We would spend countless hours after his show and on weekends working on bits, imaging, phone pranks, commercials and so much more. He was the best teacher anyone could ask for.

Pat was a great entertainer, a great radio personality, a great father, a great husband and truly a great friend.

Pat will be missed, but never forgotten.

Mike Miller
Kiss Morning Mess
 
I too, owe my career in radio to Pat. I was a "student" of his as a producer and friend of his night show at WLAN. Today talking with some friends, one thing kept getting repeated time after time...He wasn't just a radio jock, he was a professional, his charecter on the air made people think millions of things about him, but off air, there was only one thing that could be said when you got to know him..."wow". He was a totally different person off the air as he came across on the air, he could cross formats with out batting an eye, and could make you cry from laughing so hard on the air and off. He was a dedicated family man who recently became a father. Sitting at his wedding a few years ago, I remember thinking how I idolize the man. Today it became clear once again what an inspiration he has had on not only mine, but so many others. Pat, you are a great jock, a great mentor and truly a cherished friend. Walk with the angels, I love you bro.
 
I had the opportunity to work with Pat for almost 2 years while at Citadel Harrisburg and I am extremely shocked and saddened to hear the news of his passing. Pat was quite a guy....and absolutely amazing at everything and with everyone he touched in life. I learned a decent amount from Pat, especially when it comes to editing. He taught me to have fun with it and he sure was the master. His passing is a great loss to the radio industry. My thoughts and prayers are with his wife, daughter, family and close friends. ~Sarah
 
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Wow. What incredibly shocking and sad news.

I was lucky enough to work with Pat in DC at 99.1 WHFS, and again at the reborn 105.7 WHFS in Baltimore until they went all-talk a year ago. He was one of the funniest, smartest, genuine and talented people I've ever known in this business, and I always knew he had the potential to do some really great things if the right door opened up for him. His passing is such a loss...to me personally, and for our business as well.

I've relayed the news to everyone he used to work with at WHFS, and everyone is in shock...several of us also got email from him last night or during the past week. Everyone who is still in the area is interested in details about a memorial service or funeral for Pat...we'd all like to make a road trip up to PA together to pay our respects to him, and we also would like to do something for the family. If anyone finds out anything along these lines, please let me know at the e-mail address below. (Apologies to the moderators if posting my e-mail address isn't kosher.)

Pat, we'll all miss you...oh, and thanks for getting that Gunther and the Sunshine Girls video stuck in my head forever.

Spam
Imaging Director, 99.1/105.7 WHFS
Program Director, HFS2 (WHFS-HD2)
E-mail: spam at whfs dot com
 
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SpamAudio said:
Wow. What incredibly shocking and sad news.

I was lucky enough to work with Pat in DC at 99.1 WHFS, and again at the reborn 105.7 WHFS in Baltimore until they went all-talk a year ago. He was one of the funniest, smartest, genuine and talented people I've ever known in this business, and I always knew he had the potential to do some really great things if the right door opened up for him. His passing is such a loss...to me personally, and for our business as well.

I've relayed the news to everyone he used to work with at WHFS, and everyone is in shock...several of us also got email from him last night or during the past week. Everyone who is still in the area is interested in details about a memorial service or funeral for Pat...we'd all like to make a road trip up to PA together to pay our respects to him, and we also would like to do something for the family. If anyone finds out anything along these lines, please let me know at the e-mail address below. (Apologies to the moderators if posting my e-mail address isn't kosher.)

Pat, we'll all miss you...oh, and thanks for getting that Gunther and the Sunshine Girls video stuck in my head forever.

Spam
Imaging Director, 99.1/105.7 WHFS
Program Director, HFS2 (WHFS-HD2)
E-mail: spam at whfs dot com
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I had only met Pat in passing but know a lot of people who worked with him. My heart goes out to his family and close friends.
 
A lot of us got that email from Pat saying he wanted back in. What timing...

Anyway, for those who may not have heard (or heard of) Pat, here's a link to his site...take a listen.

I kept finding myself saying "damn, that's when radio used to be fun..."
www.patkain.com/noise.htm
 
Here is his obituary with the info on his memorial and burial

Patrick S. Kain

Patrick S. Kain, age 35, of Lancaster, PA, passed away unexpectedly on Thursday at Lancaster Regional Medical Center.

Born in Mt. Vernon, NY, he was the son of Vincent J. and Patricia J. Smith Kain of Pelham, NY. He was the husband of Stacy R. Nale Kain.

Patrick was a graduate of Pelham Memorial High School, Penn State University, class of 1995 with a BA in Communications and was currently enrolled at Weidner Law School.

[EDIT]

http://obits.lancasteronline.com/index.php?p=2067673

[EDIT-post truncated because originating material is copyrighted. URL provided by Radio-Info as a courtesy to other users.]
 
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I can't say enough good things about Pat Kain ... and I'm incredibly sad that I am writing this post. Life is just not fair. This proves it.

Once, while job hunting, I had applied for a gig ... and when I found out that Pat had also applied for it, I immediately emailed the program director and withdrew my application, telling the PD that I was no where NEAR the jock he was, and that Pat was the guy for the job. Sure, he'd have wiped the floor with me, but, I also respected him FAR too much as a person to EVER be any sort of hindrance to him and his MISSION to give radio the sound kick in the @$$ it needs SO badly - because Pat had a passion for radio you rarely see any more. I mean, you could tell that just listening to his work, but, you also just knew it hanging out with him. Some in the business may have abandoned the notion that radio is a medium for entertainment, preferring to turn their radio stations into jukeboxes hooked up to a transmitter ... but that wasn't Pat's idea of what radio should be.

And I will truly miss Pat as a person too. He was just one of those rare people you encounter in this world - forget the business - who was honest, decent, and a good human being - a no b.s. kind of guy. And to leave this world after receiving one of life's greatest blessings is truly tragic ... My heart goes out to his wife, daughter, and the rest of his family ... may God be with you all at this incredibly difficult time.

I don't know if there is a special place DJ's go to when they pass on ... but if there is, they'd better watch their @$$es - 'cause they're not gonna know what hit 'em. God bless you, Patrick Scott Kain. I miss you.
 
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Thanks to everyone who got back to me about Pat. A group of us from the old WHFS family
will be up in Lancaster on Monday evening to pay our respects.

Zack couldn't have summed up Pat any better. He was definitely all that.
 
I just heard of Pat's passing today. It really shocked me to the core. I have been emailing Pat for the past couple of weeks about him taking a trip out to the Bay Area CA to spend some time with friends, etc. I have so many fond memories of Pat. From competing against him in the morning in State College to spending time with him on-air at WLAN. Pat is the funniest, wittiest, genuine guy I've ever met. So sad.
 
I remember Pat Kane from his FM97 days, then I moved to the Bay Area, and I'm fairly certain Pat was on Channel 104.7 in San Jose right about the time I was moving back east to Pittsburgh. After that I hadn't heard his name mentioned until reading about him on here. Our thoughts and prayers are also with the Kane family. By coincidence I will be in Lancaster on Monday evening, but won't have time to stop at Fred Groff's.
 
I'm not sure what more to say that hasn't already been said. But there's something I wanted to share here -- knowing the 'radio' types read this stuff....

Live with passion. We've only got one life to live, so do it with passion.

Pat did. IMHO the greatest way to honor the life of Pat Kain -- if you are in radio -- is to live with passion.

Do something everyone says you shouldn't do. And do it better than everyone else would do it.
Take an intelligent risk and watch it pay off for you.
Find a cause -- like autism -- and do your part to make a difference in the life of one... because it touches all.
Hold on to your honor because it's all you have.
Remember the powerful responsibility we have as entertainers and as broadcasters.
Fight the fights worth fighting. By doing so you will have already won them...

... and do so with passion.

Crack the mic and believe that what you are doing can change the world. Pat did.

And Pat did it all on his own terms. His way.

We should all be so inspired to live the way Pat did. If you -- like me -- have allowed the coolness of complacency to set in your life -- professionally or personally ... then let Pat's last lesson do for you what it did for me:

Get fired up. Handle your business and get back in the game. And win it.

I'll share something with you guys... a bit of a conversation between Pat and I from just a couple of weeks ago... From what I read here, most of you might have had a similar conversation, but for two old teammates who had been through a few wars, ours was a bit more personal. We're both fathers. We've both lived somewhat public lives. We shared some stories, some experiences... And long story short, the conversation ended with Pat telling me that he was "proud of me" for several professional things... but above all, for the kind of father I've tried to become. I shared the same sentiments with Pat... because I have no doubt as to the kind of daddy he was... and is.

Pat, I'm still proud of you.

We've got just one life to live. Let's do it with passion. Pat would have wanted no less.

This is a crazy business. Friendships can be fleeting in this game. We all have our issues... and we've all got more baggage than a Samsonite factory... but every so often, someone comes who reminds us all what we can be if we really want to be. Regardless of what happens to us in our career.

For me, Patrick was that person.

God bless each of you. To those friends I've not spoken too in some time, you've never been too far from my thoughts.... even though we've been out of contact.... and to those I don't know... I share in the pain we all feel as we say goodbye to someone who touched so many...

For the most part, I've quit smoking. Fatherhood does that to you... long story. But I'll miss bumming one from Pat and smoking out on the roof... flicking the butts into the alleyway below...

... in another time and another place.

Cadillac Jack joins me in sending our most sincere condolences... as he said to me in an email earlier, this is a reminder of one's own mortality...


-tk.
 
Like Toby said... there isn't much more I can say that has not been expressed here. I remember getting all of my homework done in middle school by 7pm so that I could sit and listen to Pat's show on WLAN. I thought Pat was the best, I never missed a moment. A part of who I am on the air today is rooted in Pat's antics. I always thought he was the best phoner in business and have always tried to "get to his level."

I am in such shock right now, I don't know what to say. We've lost a legend in my eyes. I can I am saddened to write this post.

Pat... you'll be missed.
 
FM97 gave me so much free, unsolicited publicity back in the late 90s. Pat was a huge part of that. As many of you may remember, he used to play a lot of pretty alternative techno-industrial music beds while he talked, and I would call him up and say hey, nice remix from so-and-so. I'm sure it worked as well for the station as it did for me, but so be it. The result of it all was some pretty good friendships that stand up to this day, even without constant contact. I would only get to see Pat once in a while over the past few years, but we always were able to just pick up right where the conversation left off, especially if the conversation involved music.

It was inspiring to see a full house at the viewing last night. There was probably as large a showing from his bartending friends as there was from media, and many people in the media contingent didn't exactly have close commutes.

It was an honor to meet his parents, who naturally don't live around here, and pass along to them his impact on my life. Of course, there was plenty of that happening. I could tell that them hearing our little stories was helping them get through the senselessness of his early passing.

Many of us went out afterwards to a less formal setting which we knew Pat would have preferred anyway. It was decided to get a round to toast the guy. As strange occurences tend to happen, there was an extra shot. It was proclaimed that it was obviously Pat's. So it remained there for the rest of the night untouched, as if a jet were missing from formation.

We'll miss you, Pat!
 
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