Gary Burbank (born Billy Purser, July 1941 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American radio personality.
Burbank left WAKY in 1973; during his final program, there was an elaborate prank in which he pretended to be fatally shot by a disgruntled listener.
From New Orleans, Burbank went on to CKLW in Detroit/Windsor in the mid 70's, and then back to Louisville for a successful, lengthy afternoon gig on WHAS-AM.
Burbank's show in the late 1990s was syndicated out of WLW to other regional stations (including WTVN in Columbus, WAKR in Akron and WERE in Cleveland).
The network (and eventually, the program itself) was called "The BBC: The Broad-bank Burb-casting Corporation," a send-up of Gary Owens' classic line.
Burbank's show was also eventually heard, along with the rest of WLW's programming, on XM Satellite Radio Channel 173.
Despite Burbank's retirement, Earl Pitts' commentaries continued to broadcast on its network of affiliates including WLW.
[6] On September 23, 2009, Burbank returned to the airwaves at his old timeslot with then-hosts Eddie Fingers and Tracy Jones promoting his new book "Voices In My Head."