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A Tribute to Dick Purtan
A Tribute to Dick Purtan
Detroit radio fans.. get ready for A Tribute to Dick Purtan premiering on PBS 56 Thursday Sept. 15 at 9pm ET!
The new one-hour documentary follows the legendary journey of Purtan's career as a radio personality & community philanthropist, and features some of the most memorable moments from his top-rated morning show!
The new one-hour documentary follows the legendary journey of Purtan's career as a radio personality & community philanthropist, and features some of the most memorable moments from his top-rated morning show!
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Thank you for the heads up. Though 1 hour hardly seems enough time to highlight all he accomplished.
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It shows as being two hours on the dptv.org schedule although with the usual pauses for donations it might be only an hour or so of actual footage.
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When I saw the title of this topic I thought something had happened to him.
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Somewhere I have a 1/4" reel-to-reel "aircheck" tape of him. Not sure what year it's from. I should convert it to MP3 sometime and upload it somewhere.
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Re: A Tribute to Dick Purtan
A lot of the history between Tom Ryan and Dick Purtan's collaborations are featured in this documentary.
Well done to all involved in its' production.
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Putting that together was clearly a labor of love for collaborators like DPTV, Big Al, Michael Seltzer, Art Vuolo, Steve Schram, and Purtan's daughters, among others. Kudos to everyone that was able to get it done while Dick could still enjoy it.
I thought it was awesome that they worked in how much Purtan has devoted to giving back to the community through his philanthropy with Children's Hospital and the Salvation Army.
Also spot on was providing tons of credit for his family and support crew, including the tributes to Gene Taylor and Mark Andrews. Including every member of "Purtan's People" in the closing credits was a nice touch.
I thought it was awesome that they worked in how much Purtan has devoted to giving back to the community through his philanthropy with Children's Hospital and the Salvation Army.
Also spot on was providing tons of credit for his family and support crew, including the tributes to Gene Taylor and Mark Andrews. Including every member of "Purtan's People" in the closing credits was a nice touch.
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I think one of Dick's daughters was very sick as a child and that is when he started the hospital thing,
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It was a very enjoyable doc and well deserved. Whether he was in your wheel house or not the guy was a visionary.
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Just clicked on the link and it comes up “this video is private”
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Re: A Tribute to Dick Purtan
Those cut-ins always bother me when watching PBS programming, especially the music programming.MWmetalhead wrote: ↑Sat Sep 17, 2022 6:20 am I enjoyed the documentary; kudos to those who produced it!
The lengthy cut-ins every 20 minutes for fundraising purposes were annoying, though.