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Remembering Mike Lyons

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Veteran Florida broadcaster Mike Lyons lost his battle with pancreatic cancer this morning (October 8). Mike was part of the staff at the legendary
WORJ in Orlando in the 70's, programmed WQXM in Tampa and hosted mornings at WDIZ in Orlando for many years. After doing independent record promotion in Milwaukee for a number of years, he returned to the Orlando area. On his Facebook page, Mike's WORJ co-worker Neal Mirsky reported "Mike fought very hard to beat this terrible disease and in the end he passed peacefully, surrounded by his sister Deb and his close friends Robin & Rick Birkbeck, Lee Arnold and myself."
 
wow, so sad.....i remembering listening to Mike and Carren sheldon on the rude awakening on WDIZ back in the early 1980s. Loved that show, they came along just before Baxter and Mark i believe. The Rude awakening made my crappy job on a construction site more tolerable. Won several concert tickets from them back in the day.......including one of my all time favorite shows, Cheap Trick at the Lakeland Civic Center...i still have the stub from that show....

RIP mike......
 
Update:
Veteran Florida broadcaster Mike Lyons lost his battle with pancreatic cancer this morning. Mike was part of the staff at the legendary
WORJ in Orlando in the 70's, programmed WQXM in Tampa and hosted mornings at WDIZ in Orlando for many years. After doing independent record promotion in Milwaukee for a number of years, he returned to the Orlando area. On his Facebook page, Mike's WORJ co-worker Neal Mirsky reported "Mike fought very hard to beat this terrible disease and in the end he passed peacefully, surrounded by his sister Deb and his close friends Robin & Rick Birkbeck, Lee Arnold and myself."
Funeral arrangements are pending.
 
Mike was a terrific friend and one of the most naturally talented disc jockeys I have ever known. He permanently added the word "whazmo" to my vocabulary.

Without Mike's help, I never would have been able to open what became Orlando's first professional comedy club which, in turn, led me back onto the air at Y-106 as part of their morning show.

Also through Mike, I met Carren Sheldon who remains one of my best friends.

He will be missed.
 
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