R.I.P.: Cape Cod Broadcaster Don Moore Dies

Don Moore

Donald Moore died Friday at age 77 from complications of a staph infection after a 14-year battle with Alzheimer's disease.

He was 77, according to the Cape Cod Times.

Moore built the award-winning radio station WQRC-FM in 1970, followed by TV station WCVX-TV in 1985 and radio station WOCN-FM "Ocean 104" in 1994.

"In addition to his incredible technical skills, which is what he was known for, he also had a terrific sense of programming and music, and that's an unusual combination," said Dick Golden, who worked with Moore at WQRC from 1972 until Moore's departure in 1985.

"Don used the radio station as an instrument to improve the quality of life on Cape Cod," Golden said. "It represented the tastes of a large portion of people who lived on the Cape."

In 1978, Moore won WQRC an Armstrong Award for the station's daylong coverage of the 75th anniversary of Guglielmo Marconi's first trans-Atlantic wireless broadcast transmission originating from a station near Wellfleet.

Moore worked as an audio engineer for WHDH radio in Boston, where one of his roles was that of camera operator in the Boston Red Sox dugout, before building WQRC in 1970.

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