Ten Years Later: Remembering Casper Radio Legend Brian Scott

If you've been keeping track, things around the radio ranch are pretty heavy right now. Last week, we lost our longtime co-worker and friend, the legendary Frank Gambino. While the shock of his sudden passing is still fresh, we also have to remember that another Casper radio and community legend was lost 10 years ago.

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Brian Scott passed away on September 18th, 2016. 10 years ago this week. If you knew Brian, you know what the community lost. If you didn't know Brian, there's only one guy who can tell you who Brian was and the legacy that he left behind.

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Casper broadcasting pioneer Bob Price has shaped radio, television personalities, and broadcasting brands in Wyoming for years. He knows exactly how to express what so many are feeling.

Here's a message from Bob as the 10-year anniversary of Brian's death approaches.

September 18th marks ten years since we lost Brian Scott.

Ten years. I find that difficult to believe.

Brian died in a motorcycle accident in Montana while returning from a fundraiser in Canada. And while a decade has passed, for those of us who knew him, worked with him, and especially listened to him, there are moments when ten years doesn’t seem very long at all.

Brian took over the K2Radio morning show after me, and I have always believed no one could have done it better.

That isn't because he tried to do what I had done. Quite the opposite. Brian made the program his own. But he understood something about radio that mattered greatly to me and mattered just as greatly to him.

Radio is a one-to-one medium.

There may be thousands of people listening, but when that microphone comes on, you are talking to one person. Maybe that person is sitting at the kitchen table with a first cup of coffee. Maybe driving to work before daylight. Maybe feeding cattle, opening a business, getting the kids off to school, or simply beginning another Wyoming morning.

Brian understood that person on the other side of the radio.

He respected the listener. He talked with you, not at you. He could make you laugh, make you think, and make you feel that somehow you were part of the conversation.

That's a gift. Brian had it.

Perhaps I am thinking about all of this a little more deeply this year because just last week we lost another extraordinary member of our Wyoming broadcasting family, Frank Gambino.

Frank and Brian were different personalities, different voices, different broadcasters. But both became part of people's lives in that peculiar and wonderful way radio allows.

And I find myself looking around these days and realizing that my own "studio" of friends, broadcasters and associates is diminishing much too quickly.

That is one of the harder things about growing older. The voices that accompanied so much of your life begin, one by one, to go silent.

But maybe they don't disappear altogether.

Because you remember.

You remember Brian saying something that made you laugh on the way to work. You remember Frank talking sports as though the two of you were simply having a conversation. I remember the studios, the hallways, the microphones, the people who wandered through our lives and somehow became family.

And you and I, dear listener, have something very special.

We have all those mornings.

We have the stories.

We have the laughter.

We have the voices.

And we have a lifetime of cherished memories to see us through.

So on September 18th, ten years after we lost Brian Scott, I'll remember a gifted broadcaster who took over my morning show and did it immense justice.

More importantly, I'll remember my friend.

And I suspect many of you will, too.

Thanks for listening, Brian.

And Frank.

We haven't forgotten.