Norfolk Radio: Veteran Personality Dick Lamb Retires..Sort Of..

Dick Lamb

Dick Lamb's career in early morning radio began in 1979 when Jimmy Carter was in the White House. It ended almost 40 years later on Friday with his last appearance on "Dick Lamb and the Morning Wave" on Max Media's WVBW 92.9 FM.

Lamb told his listeners this week, "I believe it's time for a change," and announced that he will leave the job of hosting "The Morning Wave" to Paul Richardson and Jennifer Roberts.

"You guys are on your own," he told the two broadcasters who have been his partners on The Wave since July 2005.

"I'll miss it," Lamb told pilotonline.com. "I've been lucky as heck to have had such a good run."

What he won't miss is the sound of his alarm going off at 4 a.m. "It will feel good to know that I don't have to get up at the hour any longer."

It was 1955 when Lamb broke into radio with a station in Baltimore while he was still in school and working part-time as bag boy in a grocery store.

Lamb, a father of five who is in good health at the age of 80, has been both a local TV personality with WTKR and WAVY and later a radio icon – first with WWDE-FM, where he presided over "The Breakfast Bunch" for 26 years, and later with The Wave.

Old-old timers might remember when Lamb was a Top 40 jock in the 1960s on WGH 1310 AM, a station dominant in this market for several decades, and still part of Lamb's universe.

He will remain as director of operations with Max Media and will be heard on a voice track weekdays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the recently re-launched WGH. That's where Lamb in the 1960s was in a group of disc jockeys that included Gene Loving, George Crawford, Dale Parsons and Bob Calvert.