Station suspends DJ for prank on Kile’s widow
Phoenix ? A radio station suspended the disc jockey who called Darryl Kile’s widow in an on-air prank and asked if she had a date to Thursday’s playoff game.
The incident enraged St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa and prompted apologies from the radio station and the Arizona Diamondbacks.
KUPD-FM disc jockey Beau Duran was suspended Friday for at least a week, said Chuck Artigue, market manager for the Sandusky Group, which owns the station.
Flynn Kile hung up the phone after Duran called her Phoenix hotel room. Her husband, a starting pitcher for the Cardinals, was found dead in his bed at the team’s hotel in Chicago on June 22.