17 Facts About Kidd Kraddick

Kidd Kraddick's nationally syndicated morning radio show, The Kidd Kraddick Morning Show, is based in Irving, Texas, and aired throughout the United States, syndicated by Kraddick's company, YEA Media Group.

Kidd Kraddick was seen on the nationally syndicated Dish Nation television show weeknights around the United States.

Kidd Kraddick later worked in Fresno, California, Miami, Salt Lake City, and Los Angeles, where he worked comedy clubs as an emcee.

Kidd Kraddick moved to Dallas in 1984 and took over the night shift on the newly formatted rock-leaned top-40 station KEGL and established a following.

In 1990, Kidd Kraddick was named to the Ten Outstanding Young Americans list by the United States Junior Chamber.

Kidd Kraddick won a 1998 Marconi Award for Major Market Radio Personality of the Year while he was with KHKS and the next year he won Air Personality of the Year at the Radio Music Awards.

Kidd Kraddick began to syndicate the show in 2001 and moved the production to an independent studio in Las Colinas.

Kidd Kraddick became a member of the Texas Radio Hall of Fame.

In 2016, Kidd Kraddick was posthumously inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame.

In 1992, "Kidd Kraddick in the Morning" was born as a local radio program in Dallas.

Kidd Kraddick voiced a number of characters, making extensive use of voice altering technology in improvising characters as they came up during show discussions.

Kidd Kraddick has voiced other characters such as "Must Be Nice Guy", and other characters that added flair to the show.

Kidd Kraddick subsequently sold both entities; BitBoard is operated by Clear Channel Communications and The Morning Mouth is owned and operated by Talentmasters in Atlanta.

Kidd Kraddick attended the University of Miami for a semester, but dropped out to study broadcasting.

Kidd Kraddick had planned on remarrying in the near future to Lissi Mullen to whom he was engaged the week before his death.

In 2009, Kidd Kraddick was diagnosed with lymphoma, which he kept hidden from his coworkers and family.

Kidd Kraddick had three diseased vessels and one of his arteries had an 80 percent blockage.