Detroit radio vet Ken Calvert, voice of 'Bad Boys' Pistons, dies at 72 [View all]
Tony Paul
Jakkar Aimery
Marnie Muñoz
December 21, 2023
Veteran Detroit radio broadcaster and rock DJ royalty Ken Calvert, who spent more than four decades as an on-air personality in the Motor City, has died.
His death was by announced by his colleague and a fellow radio personality.
Calvert died Wednesday at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, the Oakland County Medical Examiner's Office confirmed. His cause of death was not given. He was 72.
"We lost Ken Calvert today. I hope all of you know how much he loved being on the air in Detroit and cherished the time he talked with you and met you at King Chili cookoffs, golf outings and all over Detroit," Jim O'Brien of 94.7 WCSX said in a statement on Big Jim's House website late Wednesday.
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My late husband and I had Pistons season tickets during the 1980s and early 90s and Ken Calvert was always such a hoot. RIP, sir.
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