Detroit radio vet Ken Calvert, voice of 'Bad Boys' Pistons, dies at 72
Tony Paul
Jakkar Aimery
Marnie Muñoz
December 21, 2023
Veteran Detroit radio broadcaster and rock DJ royalty Ken Calvert, who spent more than four decades as an on-air personality in the Motor City, has died.
His death was by announced by his colleague and a fellow radio personality.
Calvert died Wednesday at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, the Oakland County Medical Examiner's Office confirmed. His cause of death was not given. He was 72.
"We lost Ken Calvert today. I hope all of you know how much he loved being on the air in Detroit and cherished the time he talked with you and met you at King Chili cookoffs, golf outings and all over Detroit," Jim O'Brien of 94.7 WCSX said in a statement on Big Jim's House website late Wednesday.
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My late husband and I had Pistons season tickets during the 1980s and early 90s and Ken Calvert was always such a hoot. RIP, sir.
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Great times!
My late husband and I were sitting in our nosebleed seats in The Palace when a very well-dressed couple from Chicago came up to us and asked us if we would switch seats with them because they wanted to sit with their friends who were next to us. We were at first dubious, but the tickets had to be legit because they'd gotten in so we said, "Sure!" Well, we found ourselves 5 rows in, midcourt right behind Magic Johnson. A guy kept looking over at us and finally asked how we came to be sitting there. We told him and he started laughing, saying he'd just scalped those tickets for $2,000 and how he was so happy they made their way to Pistons fans. It was a great game. We felt like we'd won the lottery. And we won 86 to 77.
Good times, indeed. 