Rick has a wide area of interests and is a contributor to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. He was born on
December 6, a long time ago in the small community of
Clearfield, Pennsylvania. Rick lived for his first few years in
Philadelpha, P.A. but moved at the age of four to the Maryland suburbs of
Washington D.C. just six miles from the
White House. He knew from the age of 12 when listening to his first
transistor radio that he wanted to be on the radio. Among his first influences were
The Joy Boys on WRC radio in Washington. One of the co-hosts of that show was
Willard Scott who later went on to be the Weatherman on NBC-TV's
Today Show.
Rick's broadcasting career began at the age of 15 when he worked at his first radio station as a board op on a
Classical MusicF-M station in
Takoma Park, Maryland. Rick went on to work at several other radio stations in the D.C. suburbs including an overnight stint with nationally known controversial and combative T-V talk show host
Morton Downey, Jr. on WWDC.
Rick interned at
KTVX-TV in
Salt Lake City where he worked in television production for their two evening newscasts. After college he moved to
Billings, Montana where he helped to put
KHMT on the air for the first time and worked as Promotions Director. He then went to
Missoula, Montana and
KECI-TV where he worked as a
news reporter covering
Missoula County news and was the station's sports anchor. Later Rick would move to
Bend, Oregon where he reported, produced and co-anchored news casts at
KTVZ-TV.
Rick later worked at a News/Talk station in
Yakima, Washington. Before moving to Yakima in the summer of 2005 he lived on the west side of the state as a long-time resident of
Federal Way.
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