David Hall, the program director and afternoon DJ at Lightning 100, died Sunday, according to a statement from the radio station. The industry veteran spent time at WKDF and WGFX during the 1980s and '90s when those stations broadcast rock music.

He was a fierce advocate of many Nashville artists you hear on Lightning 100, a role which he relished as “David Hall Rocks Y’all,”  every weekday afternoon. He brought them to Nashville radio and the rest of the world via live broadcast and the internet every Sunday with Nashville Sunday Night. In local music, David championed everyone from Jason & the Scorchers in the 80’s, The Evinrudes and Leigh Nash in the 1990s, to Gabe Dixon and Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors, in 2012.