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The distinguishing mark of a traditional top-40 station was the use of a hyperexcited disc-jockey, and high tempo jingles. The format was invented in the US and today can be heard worldwide. Todd Storz and Gordon McLendon invented Top 40 radio. Bill Drake and Rick Sklar have had a lasting modern influence. [2]
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 .
It aired beautiful music, light classical music, recorded music and show tunes along with news reports. [7] The station had an ERP of 40,000 watts, and its transmitter was located atop Chicago's Randolph Tower. [3] WSEL was owned by Chicago Skyway Broadcasting Company. [3] A previous station in Chicago had briefly operated on 104.3 MHz in 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 tunes. In 1964, it became a nationally syndicated program through Mid-America Video Tape Productions, then a subsidiary of television station WGN-TV in Chicago (the predecessor of Tribune Entertainment). [7]
Chicago's music scene has been well known for its blues music for many years. "Chicago Blues" uses a variety of instruments in a way which heavily influenced early rock and roll music, including instruments like electrically amplified guitar, drums, piano, bass guitar and sometimes the saxophone or harmonica, which are generally used in Delta blues, which originated in Mississippi.
In 1983, KDAY-AM became the first radio station to play wall-to-wall rap music, thanks to an ambitious new music director and some soon-to-be famous DJs. When L.A. invented rap radio: The rise of KDAY
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.
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