{"id":227865,"date":"2021-06-14T15:39:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T20:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=227865"},"modified":"2021-06-16T10:28:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T15:28:59","slug":"longtime-jmst-radio-personality-ole-olson-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=227865","title":{"rendered":"Longtime KSJB Radio Personality Ole Olson Passes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Jamestown\u00a0 (The Flag Radio)\u00a0 A legend in the Jamestown and North Dakota broadcasting community has passed away.<\/p>\n

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The North Dakota Broadcasters Association confirms to WDAY Radio that\u00a0KSJB on-air personality Ole Olson (Norman Kidd) had a heart attack while driving, which took his life.<\/p>\n

Olson’s career spanned over 50 years behind the microphone serving the Jamestown and surrounding communities. He was honored with the NDBA Pioneer Award in 2008 and was a recipient of the Merit Award from the ND High School Activities Association.<\/p>\n

For several years, Ole was behind the mic at home and on the road broadcasting play by play for local and regional sports teams.<\/p>\n

Olson had officially retired from full-time radio\u00a0September 28th, 2012, but worked there part-time until his passing Monday.<\/p>\n

He’s most noted for covering the blizzard of 1966, and also helping deliver two babies while behind the microphone.<\/p>\n

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Jamestown\u00a0 (The Flag Radio)\u00a0 A legend in the Jamestown and North Dakota broadcasting community has passed away. The North Dakota Broadcasters Association confirms to WDAY Radio that\u00a0KSJB on-air personality Ole Olson (Norman Kidd) had a heart attack while driving, which took his life. Olson’s career spanned over 50 years behind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":227872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227865"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228045,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227865\/revisions\/228045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/227872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}