Our radio columnist remembers KMET DJ Mary Turner.
If you were a listener to KMET during the station’s rise to dominance in the 1970s, you remember “The Burner” Mary Turner, one of the early female pioneers of progressive and album rock radio. On the KMET airwaves from 1972 to 1982, she in many ways represented exactly what KMET was to its listeners: intelligent, passionate and human.
Did the fact that she was a woman in an industry dominated, especially back then, by men? Turner told Barrett, “I think being a woman helped more than anything else. The time was right for it, and I happened to be in the right place at the right time.” She produced short interview and music information segments for KMET that evolved into nationally syndicated special programs called Off the Record; these specials reached an estimated 25 million listeners and are highly respected to this day. She was among the first to ever interview a young Bruce Springsteen for her regular evening air shift.
Turner is preceded in death by her husband Norm Pattiz, who she met through her radio shows. Pattiz, founder and former chairman of Westwood One radio networks, passed away just this past December.
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