Dennis Constantine

Dennis Constantine has spent close to 57 years in radio. He spent his first ten years in Top 40 radio (The Beatles Revolver was a new album in his first year on the radio)! His mentor Kerby Confer, was a popular DJ in Baltimore in the sixties at the Top 40 giant WCAO. In 1969, when Dennis joined the staff at WYRE Annapolis, he was quickly promoted to Program Director, and had the privilege of working with Kerby again, who joined the station to learn radio sales and management. Kerby taught Dennis what he was learning, and ultimately, Dennis worked every aspect of the station, from on-air, to sales, traffic, and engineering.
From Annapolis, Dennis took his skills to Miami in 1973 where he worked at the legendary stations WMYQ and Y100 in its early days. At one point, his program director at Y100, John Rook, asked if he’d like to go to Denver to work with Big Ron O’Brien to be his music director. So began his Colorado journey. After delivering number one ratings at KTLK, he moved to rock radio doing mornings and production at KBPI, a station rooted in progressive rock. In 1977, he convinced the owner buying an FM station in Boulder to hire him for a new radio station concept of a localized music station with its roots in acoustic singer-songwriters that became the birth of KBCO and Triple-A Radio.
When KBCO became the number one radio station in Denver, he started getting calls from other radio stations for help in developing their sound. He felt the key to KBCO’s success was its customization to fit into the Denver-Boulder radio scene. He took this concept to WHFS Baltimore-Washington and helped them transition into a Modern Rock station. When that station became tremendously successful, the faucet was opened, and within years, he had over two dozen successful client stations all across the country. He returned to programming radio stations in 1997 when he moved to Portland, OR as PD of KINK, and then to San Francisco in 2011 as PD of KFOG.
Dennis is in the Broadcast Pioneers of Colorado Hall of Fame and now lives in the mountains of Arizona with his wife Cheri and their companions, where he is still consulting stations, and does a daily afternoon show on his Flagstaff-Prescott client, KVNA-FM.