CHERRY HILL – Kal and Lucille Rudman, a local couple known for their philanthropy, have died within days of each other, according to a report.

The deaths were reported by Deane Media Solutions, a Cherry Hill company that bought the assets of Rudmans’ trade publications last year, run by Friday Morning Quarterback.

“Kal and Lucille have been married for 63 years and have dedicated themselves to serving the music and radio industries for over six decades,” said Fred Deane, a former employee of the couple.

The Rudmans also operated a foundation “which supported several charitable, educational and civic causes throughout the Philadelphia and South Jersey area,” Deane added.

“They are indeed legends on many levels,” he said.

According to Deane Media’s announcement, Lucille Rudman died Thursday morning. Her husband had died two days earlier, he added.

The terms of service were not immediately known.

Among other charitable actions, Kal Rudman donated $ 2,500 to repair damage to a church in Lindenwold after it was vandalized in January 2016.

He also offered a reward of $ 2,500 for information leading to an arrest in the case.

“I’m doing the job because I can… and I want it,” Rudman said in a statement provided to the Courier-Post at the time.

“I seek to find voids and important needs that matter to me, and in the big picture of the world, and I fill those voids and meet those needs,” he said.

Rudman was inducted in 2000 into the Broad Street Walk of Fame maintained by the Philadelphia Music Alliance.

The organization’s website notes its “strange ability to predict which songs and artists will become America’s favorites.”

Rudman was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University.

He was inducted in 2011 into the Klein College of Media and Communication Hall of Fame Alumni Hall, which in 2017 awarded Rudman his first Tribute Award.

The school noted that the Rudmans Foundation donated more than $ 2 million to the Temple University television program, including $ 1.2 million in 2010 to help fund a media production center.

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The foundation also helped pay to send students on the road to cover Temple football, men’s and women’s basketball and championship games, the school noted in announcing the 2017 honor.

The foundation reported $ 5.2 million in net assets in 2019, the latest year for which its federal tax returns are publicly available. He donated nearly $ 400,000 that year to support schools, health care facilities, universities and the Citizens Crime Commission.

Announcing his award, Klein College noted that Rudman started his career as a WCAM disc jockey in Camden, while also working as a teacher.

He accepted a position as editor and columnist for Billboard Magazine, then founded Friday Morning Quarterback in 1968.

“Due to his ability to predict the best hits, Rudman has earned the name ‘The Man with the Golden Ears’,” the Temple announcement said.

He was a frequent guest on TV talk shows, he said, and “also spent much of his career as a color announcer for what was then known as the World Wrestling Foundation.” .

Jim Walsh covers public safety, economic development, and other topics for the Courier-Post, the Burlington County Times, and the Daily Journal.

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