R.I.P.: Former KONO Radio Personality Don Couser

Don Couser

Don Couser, a legendary KONO on-air radio personality and deejay in the 1960s and 1970s, died early Thursday morning.

He was 72, according to mysanantonio.com

Couser is remembered as the host original host for the locally produced KONO-TV dance show, “Swingtime,” which was patterned after Dick Clark’s “American Bandstand.”   His Top-40 antics included his beloved, often sassy alter-ego character George the Duck.

“He had a real good duck voice,” recalled Bruce Hathaway, the pioneering radio deejay and personality who welcomed the Rolling Stones on the British band’s first visit to San Antonio in June 1964.

KONO program director Roger Allen praised Couser’s theater-of-the-mind approach and quick wit.

Couser also worked at WOAI and KDOK.  He was inducted into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame in 2010.

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