News/Talk 95.1 & 970 KFYO—Hasty’s station—and Townsquare Media confirmed his death in a statement on their website Thursday afternoon.
The station and media group wrote that they were “deeply saddened to share the news that longtime host, beloved personality, and Lubbock institution Chad Hasty passed away peacefully in his sleep on Thursday morning.”
Townsquare Media Lubbock’s Market President Dan Endom wrote in a statement on KFYO’s website that Hasty was “not only a brilliant on-air host, but an even better friend.”
“Our deepest condolences go out to Jennifer and his baby girl, Ava,” Endom wrote. “It’s hard to imagine not seeing his welcoming presence roaming the halls of Townsquare Media Lubbock.”
Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, took to X on Thursday, writing that Texas had lost a “powerful voice for conservative truth, integrity and common sense.”
Burrows personally thanked Hasty for the “role [he] played in my own journey to and through the Texas House.”
“A painful reminder to, like Chad, enjoy the blessings of every single day we’re given,” Leach wrote. “Prayers for all those he loved and for all those who loved him.”
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz described Hasty as the “voice of Lubbock, Texas,” having “gone far too soon.”
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn wrote that Hasty was a “fixture of West Texas and of conservative radio’ in Texas, in response to Quorum Report editor Scott Braddock’s X post commemorating his ‘dear friend.’
The Grand Prairie native graduated from Texas Tech and went on to start his career in local and state broadcasting and conservative commentary.
Hasty joined Lubbock radio in 2003 and went on to become the voice of KFYO’s morning show, according to Townsquare’s statement. In 2021, “The Chad Hasty Show” moved to late afternoons.
News/Talk 95.1 & 970 KFYO will air a special tribute edition of “The Chad Hasty Show at 5 p.m.”