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John Deeks Hamilton (March 29, 1934 – March 26, 2020 was an American radio personality and longtime host of San Francisco's KGO On the Go.

Hamilton began his 49-year accomplished career in radio at CFJC in Kamloops, BC, moving to various markets throughout the province (CKDA in Victoria and CKWX in Vancouver), Arizona (KBUZ in Phoenix) and California (including KQBY in San Francisco, KCBQ in San Diego and KPAT in San Francisco) before settling at KGO 810 AM Radio.

Born in Vancouver, BC Canada to Dorothy Deeks and Harris Hamilton, he studied broadcast journalism at NYU. He and wife, Shirley had two sons and two grandchildren. Hamilton's three passions in life were family, radio broadcasting and travel. He was an accomplished skier, hiker and golfer. Hamilton, along with his family, traveled the world as avid outdoor enthusiasts.

During his years with KGO, he covered major stories including Pope John Paul’s visit, the Golden Gate Bridge 50th Anniversary, the Oakland Hills fire and various winter Olympics (Innsbruck, Lake Placid and Sarajevo) plus many World Cup and professional ski races. His travel show, On the Go with John Hamilton had a large and loyal listenership including his mother, who would wake up early every Saturday morning in his hometown to hear his special introductory salutation, “Hi Mom!”

In 1968, Hamilton ventured out on his own by starting one of the first independent snow reporting services for radio in the nation. He is considered the "father" of snow reporting on radio because he centralized the information so that it was delivered to stations timed, tailored and ready to air by professional broadcast journalists. The company was called All Media, Inc (AMI News). At that time, radio was the most immediate way to reach listeners with snow conditions until the world wide web. Hamilton saw how important real time reports could mean to the snow sports industry and started the first distribution of conditions and other content to some of the largest news and travel websites in the world. He also helped create OnTheSnow.com which became the most visited snow sports website in the industry.