Music
IF NICE GUYS FINISH LAST, WHAT DOES THAT SAY ABOUT RICK DEES?
Feb. 3, 1985
Television
Comedy Doctor on Call: ABC, looking to bolster the comedy quotient on “Into the Night with Rick Dees,” is hiring Los Angeles producer Barry Kibrick as a comedy consultant on the late-night show.
April 19, 1991
The longtime DJ says on his last show that the choice wasn’t his. Clear Channel isn’t talking.
Feb. 11, 2004
Television’s late-night battleground is about to flare up again with new contenders trying to emulate Arsenio Hall’s success and fill the gap of Pat Sajak’s defunct CBS talk show.
June 28, 1990
Travel & Experiences
* Re “Old-World Charm Is Developer’s Magic Touch,” Jan. 16.
Jan. 28, 2001
Entertainment & Arts
Rick Dees gets morning gig at KHHT-FM
April 21, 2011
Rick Dees actually wrote a threatening memo (“All About Dees,” by Dennis McDougal, Feb. 3)?
Feb. 10, 1985
Is morning-drive radio ready for an extreme makeover?
Feb. 23, 2004
Into the Night With Rick Dees: While still being heard in the early mornings, KIIS-FM morning man Rick Dees will soon be seen on late-night television in an ABC comedy show premiering in July.
Jan. 30, 1990
California
A Los Angeles Superior Court jury determined Tuesday that radio and television personality Rick Dees and his business manager acted with “malice and oppression” in diverting profits from Dees’ Top 40 countdown program and awarded the pair’s former business partner a total of more than $10 million.
March 20, 1991