OKC Radio: Longtime DJ Ronnie Kaye Out At 92.5 KOMA

Ronnie Kaye

Long-time radio DJ Ronnie Kaye announced in a Facebook post on Saturday morning he's been let go from Oklahoma City radio station 92.5 KOMA.

The Oklahoman reports Kaye, who has been on radio and television airways for more than 60 years, said his "career has been terminated" after a comment he made on Oct. 9, which was Indigenous Peoples Day or Columbus Day. Kaye, 84, did not specify in the Facebook post what comment he made.

"I had no intentions of offending the Native American Heritage," he wrote in the post. "I would have preferred to do this on air but I wasn't given the opportunity to do so. Thank you, listeners."

Kaye, inducted into the Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2004, entertained generations of listeners with mixes of music, special guests and more. His first radio station job was at KLCN in Blytheville, Arkansas, doing play-by-play for a county basketball tournament while still in high school in the mid-1950s.

After stints in Arkansas and Lawton, he began a 19-year run on WKY in Oklahoma City.

"His 65 share in 1963 was the highest rating ever achieved in radio," his biography on the association's website states.

During his career, he played music ranging from early rock 'n' roll to disco to country. In recent years, he played the 1970s and '80s "oldies" on KOMA.