Rich Dickerson

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Rich Dickerson is a retired talk radio host for WZZR 94.3 FM in South Florida and presenter of the show The Love Doctors.[http://www.southflorida.com/citylink/sfe-cl-050405cover,0,3827485.story Article About Love Doctors] In 1975, while program director at WVTS,{{cite web |url=http://terrehauteliving.com/coverstory/248/ |title=Terre Haute Living » Articles » You and What Army? |accessdate=2010-05-27 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100419050117/http://terrehauteliving.com/coverstory/248/ |archivedate=2010-04-19 }} Rich is attributed with inadvertently inciting fans of the band Kiss to start the official Kiss fan club, the Kiss Army.{{cite web|url=http://www.antimusic.com/morley/05/BillStarkey.shtml|title=Interview with Bill Starkey|last=Seaver|first=Morley|date=2005|work=MorleyView|accessdate=2008-05-13}}Gooch, Curt and Jeff Suhs. KISS Alive Forever: The Complete Touring History. Billboard Books, 2002. {{ISBN|0-8230-8322-5}}

By July 1975, WVTS had begun to play KISS records, often referring to the KISS Army. Some of the letters included threats to blow up the station.{{cite web |url=http://www.indstate.edu/iq/Geek_Issue/Kiss_Army.htm |title=A KISS Army of One: The Birth of the Ultimate Rock 'N' Roll Club |accessdate=2006-11-20 |last=Jarman |first=Jason |date=Spring 2005 |publisher= iQ Magazine |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20060909004331/http://www.indstate.edu/iq/Geek_Issue/Kiss_Army.htm |archivedate = 2006-09-09}} Before long, listeners started calling the station asking how they could enlist.

Dickerson worked with Starkey and Evans to provide advance promotion for a KISS concert at the new Hulman Civic-University Center in Terre Haute. He retired on December 16, 2016, leaving an indelible mark on the show The Love Doctors and the people of South Florida.