Pattiz created a radio empire in the 1980s. He also served on the University of California's Board of Regents.
Norman Pattiz, a media entrepreneur who created the Westwood One radio network that brought rock concerts and personalities such as Larry King and Casey Kasem to millions of listeners, has died at 79.
“With Norm Pattiz’s passing, we have lost a true media visionary,” said Suzanne Grimes, president of Westwood One and executive vice president for Cumulus. “He founded Westwood One, which grew to become the largest radio network in the United States and one of the top media companies in the world. His legacy lives on in all of us at Westwood One.”The Los Angeles Lakers paid tribute Tuesday to Pattiz, a courtside regular at the NBA team’s games at the Forum and Crypto.com Arena .
An alumnus of Alexander Hamilton High School in Los Angeles, Pattiz was a TV advertising sales executive who went out on his own in the mid-1970s to form Westwood One, which distributed programs to radio stations across the country that carried national commercials.
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