Gary King

Gary Dennis King (July 24, 1934 – August 28, 2019) was an American businessman and radio personality. He founded WYAR, in Yarmouth, Maine, in 1998. He established the Heritage Radio Society three years earlier.

Early life King was born in Pownal, Maine, in 1934, to Charles King and Marion Noyes. then a program director. Three years later, WYAR went on the air in the basement of their home on Cousins Island, Maine. He served as the station's chief operator and manager for the next fifteen years.

Personal life In 1956, King married Lois Brown, whom he had known since he was eight years old. They had four sons.

King played the banjo, and was a member of the Ken MacKenzie band, a local group.

Death King died in 2019, aged 85, after a battle with Parkinson's disease. He had survived his wife by fifteen years. They are both interred in Yarmouth's Old Baptist Cemetery.