{"id":273370,"date":"2026-04-30T19:29:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T19:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/273370\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T19:29:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T19:29:20","slug":"west-texas-radio-host-chad-hasty-dies-at-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/273370\/","title":{"rendered":"West Texas radio host Chad Hasty dies at 43"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfyo.com\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">News\/Talk 95.1 &amp; 970 KFYO<\/a>\u2014Hasty\u2019s station\u2014and Townsquare Media confirmed his death in a statement on their website Thursday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The station and media group wrote that they were \u201cdeeply saddened to share the news that longtime host, beloved personality, and Lubbock institution\u00a0Chad Hasty\u00a0passed away peacefully in his sleep on Thursday morning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Townsquare Media Lubbock\u2019s Market President Dan Endom wrote in a statement on KFYO\u2019s website that Hasty was \u201cnot only a brilliant on-air host, but an even better friend.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur deepest condolences go out to Jennifer and his baby girl, Ava,\u201d Endom wrote. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to imagine not seeing his welcoming presence roaming the halls of Townsquare Media Lubbock.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Burrows4TX\/status\/2049902263053779234?s=20\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">took to X on Thursday,<\/a> writing that Texas had lost a \u201cpowerful voice for conservative truth, integrity and common sense.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Burrows personally thanked Hasty for the \u201crole [he] played in my own journey to and through the Texas House.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA painful reminder to, like Chad, enjoy the blessings of every single day we\u2019re given,\u201d Leach wrote. \u201cPrayers for all those he loved and for all those who loved him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz described Hasty as the \u201cvoice of Lubbock, Texas,\u201d having \u201cgone far too soon.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Sen. John\u00a0Cornyn wrote that Hasty was a \u201cfixture of West Texas and of conservative radio&#8217; in Texas, in response to Quorum Report editor Scott Braddock\u2019s X post commemorating his \u2018dear friend.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Grand Prairie native graduated from Texas Tech and went on to start his career in local and state broadcasting and conservative commentary.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hasty joined Lubbock radio in 2003 and went on to become the voice of KFYO\u2019s morning show, according to Townsquare\u2019s statement. In 2021, \u201cThe Chad Hasty Show\u201d moved to late afternoons.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>News\/Talk 95.1 &amp; 970 KFYO will air a special tribute edition of \u201cThe Chad Hasty Show at 5 p.m.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News\/Talk 95.1 &amp; 970 KFYO\u2014Hasty\u2019s station\u2014and Townsquare Media confirmed his death in a statement on their website Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-273370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}