Sammy Moon ------1947-2013

[BobbyTbone]

We lost Sammy Moon Wednesday night. 65 years old. Sammy was president of Mason & Moon Advertising and many will also remember Sammy from WKY radio in the early to mid seventies. Godspeed, Sammy.

 

[Fred Hendrickson]

Sammy Moon began doing overnights at WKY shortly after I started weekends there while still a junior in high school in 1968. He probably started about 1969 after Cal Haynes had been let go for not showing up for a weekend shift. My recollection is that Sammy had come from Texarkana where he was a jock. He eventually did 12n-3pm for a while, I believe replacing Don Wallace after he moved to Channel 4 full-time with Wallace Wildlife. Sammy had a nice, attractive young wife at the time and they had me over to their modest apartment a few times back then. But they divorced, and I never got to know his second wife or his sons. He eventually went into sales at WKY, which presumably led to his work in advertising and later his own agency. But I remember he loved Top 40 radio programming and we had many conversations about great jocks and stations in major markets, and used to listen to airchecks together. I had almost no contact with him after his departure from WKY, though, except a phone call to his agency during my time in sales at KZBS in 1989. I do know numerous people who worked for and with him in his advertising capacity, all of whom have naturally seemed to think the world of him! During his days at the Big 93 he was always a very nice, easy-going guy with a unique sense of humor. My understanding is that on this past Wednesday, he had picked up a client at the airport and took him to his hotel room, and walking back to his car he had a sudden heart attack and died almost instantly. He will doubtless be missed by all who were close to him.