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WSBC hired the nation's first full-time African-American radio announcer, Jack Cooper, who on November 3, 1929, began hosting The All-Negro Hour, a vaudevillesque entertainment program. [18] [19] On April 1, 1933, Gene Dyer purchased WSBC from C.J. Gordon, who had operated it since August 1932. [20] At the time, Dyer also owned WGES in Chicago ...
The Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC) is an American museum, the stated mission of which is "to collect, preserve, and present historic and contemporary radio and television content as well as educate, inform and entertain through our archives, public programs, screenings, exhibits, publications and online access to our resources."
Sold to private interests in 1966 and again to Amway in 1977, Mutual purchased two radio stations in New York and Chicago in the 1980s, only to sell them after Amway's interest in broadcasting began to fade. Radio syndicator Westwood One acquired Mutual in 1985 and NBC Radio in 1987, consolidating the networks operations. Throughout the 1990s ...
American Radio Archives and Museum offers one of the largest collections of radio broadcasting in the United States and in the world. [12] It has a collection of 23,000 radio and TV scripts, 10,000 photographs, 10,000 books on radio history, and 5,000 audio recordings.
ABC News Radio is the news radio service of ABC Audio, a division of ABC News in the United States. Formerly known as ABC Radio News, ABC News Radio feeds, through Skyview Networks, five-minute newscasts on the hour and news briefs at half-past the hour, to its network affiliates. ABC News Radio is the largest commercial radio news organization ...
WSCR (670 AM) – branded 670 The Score – is a commercial sports radio station, licensed to Chicago, Illinois, which serves the Chicago metropolitan area.Owned by Audacy, Inc., WSCR is a clear-channel station with extended nighttime range in most of the Central United States and part of the Eastern United States.
The All-Negro Hour was an American broadcast show that was the first radio program to feature an exclusively African American cast of performers. [1] This sixty-minute variety show was created and hosted by Jack L. Cooper who was known as the first African American radio broadcaster. [2]
The FCC "History Cards" were collections of 5-by-8-inch (13 by 20 cm) index cards, maintained for each AM, FM and TV broadcasting station. They were introduced in early 1927, at the time of the establishment of the Federal Radio Commission (FRC), and were taken over by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) after its formation in 1934.