On Radio: O’Day is still Seattle’s voice


Pat and me in Roche Harbor, 2004

Of all the voices that have crossed the radio airwaves in Seattle the past half-century, none may be so immediately identifiable to so many people, even today, as Pat O’Day’s.

A half-century, as it happens, is the appropriate time frame to consider O’Day’s place in Seattle radio lore, as he celebrates this week the 50th anniversary of his first day on the air in this market.

(More from Bill Virgin in the Seattle P-I)