Dan Donovan

Dan Donovan (Blaine Harvey) worked at WFIL Radio as a Boss Jock for ten years before heading to the mid-west and Minneapolis.

Dan was born in Philly and began his radio career at WGET in Gettysburg. He grew up in the area in Biglerville, just 8 miles from the battlefield. The small town only had 800 people (now 1,200) in it. Reports tell us that his first "microphone" was a Lincoln Log with a thumb tack.

His "second" microphone, according to his brother Gordon Harvey, was an illegal radio station on his parents' sun porch. He was broadcasting to the whole town until the FCC came in and shut him down.

Then he worked in York, Pennsylvania and WSBA. He studied journalism at the Pennsylvania State University and volunteered at the campu radio station and then went to Providence, Rhode Island where he worked at WICE.

From there, it was just a short hop, skip and a jump to Boston and WMEX. Then on to WCBM in Baltimore. Then back to the city of his birth, Philadelphia where he got fame as one of WFIL's Boss Jocks. He stayed there for a decade.

Then he went to the Twin Cities and KS 95 FM in 1979. In 1991, he moved cross town to KOOL 108 where he did afternoon drive. City Page of Minneapolis named him in 2006, the Twin Cities Best FM Radio Personality. In 2007, he celebrated with everyone a half century of broadcasting experience.

Donovan passed away on August 31, 2014 at age 73.