Veteran Pittsburgh Radio Personality Retires

PITTSBURGH, PA — Radio personality Phil Kirzyc, who cemented his local broadcast legacy with 25 years at Pittsburgh's number one rock station, has retired.

Kirzyc most recently spent about a decade doing the morning drive shift at WPKL-FM, a classic hits station in Uniontown.

Kirzyc worked for a radio station in Connecticut and Pittsburgh pioneering alternative rock station WXXP-FM in the 1980s. But he is best known for his quarter-century performing various jobs at local rocker WDVE-FM, where he was nicknamed "The Kielbasa Kid."

According to his page on the website for WXXP, (the station still has an online presence), Kirzyc worked covering news and sports on the legendary DVE morning show with Scott Paulsen and Jim Krenn from 1988-96. He also had a 7 p.m.-12 p.m. weekend on-air shift during that time.

Kirzyc also began doing pregame shows for all home Steelers games beginning around the time Bill Cowher replaced Chuck Noll as the team's head coach in 1992.

Kirzyc also worked as the in-studio host for the Steelers pregame, halftime and post-game shows and also worked a 7 p.m.-12 p.m. shift at the station.