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Paramount Pictures reportedly paid WLS $75,000 for the rights in 1943. [6] ABC Barn Dance, a filmed TV series featuring some of the radio performers, was telecast on ABC from February 21–November 14, 1949. Hosted by Jack Stillwell and Hal O'Halloran, the 30-minute musical variety format presented a mix of folk music with country and Western ...
Jack Leroy Cooper (September 18, 1888 – January 12, 1970) was the first African-American radio disc jockey, [1] [2] [3] described as "the undisputed patriarch of black radio in the United States." [ 4 ] In 2012, he was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame .
Music radio, particularly top 40, has often acted as both a barometer and an arbiter of musical taste, and radio airplay is one of the defining measures of success in the mainstream musical world. In fact, the rise of rock music to popularity is intimately tied to the history of music radio. Early forms of rock had languished in poor areas of ...
[15] (The Chicago Reader had previously reported, in November 2009, a mortgage total of $4.79 million "that'll come due in 2011.") [16] More than four and a half years later, in July 2017, Crain's revealed that the MBC's mortgage deadline had been pushed back from the end of 2015 to the end of 2017, and that as of August 2016 the museum "owed ...
WUSN (99.5 FM) is a country music radio station in Chicago, Illinois. Owned by Audacy, Inc. and branded as "US 99", it is based at Two Prudential Plaza in the Loop , and transmits from atop the John Hancock Center with an HD Radio signal.
The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign holds the WGN Radio Station Studio Orchestra Music Library and Records, 1925–1956, [42] which consists of scripts, programs, production notes, correspondence, music library rental records, sheet music manuscripts, and music scores with ...
The unlikely pair, who both had shows on NBC at the time, took the stage to perform the theme song from "Green Acres," to rousing laughter. Naturally, they went on to be crowned champs of "Emmy Idol."
Yvonne Daniels (September 16, 1937 – June 21, 1991) was an American radio host in Chicago from the 1960s to 1991. Daniels was a member of the first all-woman radio team in 1967 for WSDM and the first woman radio host for WLS in 1973. Daniels was posthumously inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 1995.