{"id":12710,"date":"2017-12-12T13:10:54","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T20:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=12710"},"modified":"2017-12-12T13:10:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T20:10:54","slug":"in-memoriam-delaney-utterback-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2017\/12\/in-memoriam-delaney-utterback-98\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: Delaney Utterback \u201998"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Delaney Utterback \u201998<\/b>, Aug. 24, at age 45. Delaney was the station manager of KRCC 91.5-FM, a Colorado College licensee, for eight years, and a member of the CC family for a quarter century.<\/p>\n

A Colorado Springs native, Delaney began listening to KRCC when he was 12 years old. He began working for the station in 1993 as a work-study employee, while studying English. In 1998, Delaney became the station\u2019s office manager and in 2007, he became the station\u2019s general manager. He took on a new role as digital manager in 2015, before leaving the station that June.<\/p>\n

\u201cDelaney Utterback was many things,\u201d said Jeff Bieri, KRCC\u2019s program manager. \u201cHe was a CC student whose love of music brought him into the fold at KRCC. He was an advocate for gay rights, and he was an artist in his aesthetics.<\/p>\n

\u201cDelaney was a believer in each individual\u2019s right to choose his or her own path, and encouraged creativity with a hands-off approach,\u201d added Jeff. \u201cBy his own admission, he was \u2018part-Vulcan,\u2019 and possessed an uncanny knowledge of the digital realm.\u201d<\/p>\n

During his tenure as station manager, Delaney established KRCC\u2019s online music archives, where listeners can hear music shows they missed. He also led the charge in implementing a new website and moving the station into high definition.<\/p>\n

In the programmatic realm, Delaney helped usher in an era of collaboration among public and community radio stations throughout Colorado, perhaps most notably playing an instrumental role in the creation of the Capitol Coverage project, in which 15 public radio stations collaborate to bring public policy reporting to communities statewide.<\/p>\n

\u201cDelaney was a big believer in providing listeners access to what\u2019s happening at the statehouse,\u201d said Andrea Chalfin, 91.5 KRCC\u2019s Morning Edition host and managing editor. \u201cAnd it\u2019s still going strong.\u201d<\/p>\n

Delaney also helped maintain KRCC\u2019s community presence with events such as the annual Blues Under the Bridge festival, which has since been named a Signature Event by the Colorado Springs Downtown Development Authority.<\/p>\n

Delaney\u2019s survivors include his husband, Christopher DuVal; his mother, Gaye Scheafer; his father, Gregory Utterback; and his sister, Lisa Wilson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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