Radio Talk Show Host. Ken Sasso's passion for broadcasting spanned over 40 years working in major radio markets and owning and operating radio stations. His radio career began at the age of 14 when, after buying his own tape recorder, he sent off demonstration tapes to local radio stations and landed his first job to which his father had to drive him for the Saturday night broadcasts beginning at midnight. From 1967 to 1969 he hosted a show on WDCR in New Haven, Connecticut where he was known as Bradley Field, also the name of the local airport. After that he was featured on various radio stations including WCCC Hartford, Connecticut; WHB Kansas City, Missouri; WFAA Dallas, Texas; WXYZ Detroit, Michigan; KGFT/KBIQ Colorado Springs, Colorado; WWL New Orleans, Louisiana; KING Seattle, Washington; KAUM & KZFX, both in Houston, Texas; and finally, at the time of his death, on KOA Denver, Colorado, where he reached 38 states, parts of Canada and Mexico. Sasso also worked for ABC Radio in on-air and management capacities as well as vice president of operations for Salem Broadcasting, a nationwide operator of AM and FM stations, which included KNUS-AM (710) in Denver. Prior to joining KOA, Sasso owned nine radio stations in Colorado and had been involved in consulting and in the management of radio groups over the years. Most recently, at the time of his death, he owned radio station 1310 KFKA in Greeley, Colorado, which was operated by his two sons, Jason and Damon. Sasso was also an accomplished jazz saxophonist and used personal private recordings of himself playing the saxophone as the introduction music to his KOA program, "The Ken Sasso Show," done from a studio he built in his residence in Colorado Springs. He was also a published photographer, and model railroader whose work was featured in "Model Railroader" magazine. Some of his other accomplishments included being a private pilot, a law enforcement career in which he attained the rank of captain with the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office in Louisiana and a successful business entrepreneur. He succombed unexpectedly to conjestive heart failure at the age of 57 during a very brief stay in a Colorado Springs hospital.