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SPORTS BROADCASTERS DEATH REPORTED

(FOX NEWS) – A loss in the sports world of NASCAR was
announced
by the National Motorsports Press Association
on Monday, January 27th.

Longtime broadcaster Bill Weber died on Dec. 13, the
organization kept his death private until recently. No
cause of death was given. He was 67. 

Interestingly, he worked as a magician in Florida after
the end of his broadcasting career
.

Bill Weber Gallery | Trading Card Database

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NOTHING SKETCHY ABOUT CBS RADIO NEWS

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REMEMBERING PORTLAND RADIO STATIONS


KKEY Radio station at 13th & Burnside in Portland,
Oregon.

No photo description available.

From July 4, 1954 when the station first signed on with the
callsign KHFS until 1956, then KKEY was owned by the
Weagant family of Vancouver, Washington.

After trying several different formats throughout the 1950s
and ’60s, in 1971, KKEY went all talk with such hosts as
Jack Hurd, Alan Hirsch, Peter Marland Jones, Jerry Dimmitt,
and Rick Miller.


On May 1, 2023, then owners Bustos Media surrendered
KXET’s license to the FCC, who cancelled it the same day.
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)


Jack Hurd and wife Kathryn.  

Who remembers the old KKEY Radio... - McMenamins History

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RADIO HISTORY DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1926

Amos and Andy (1928) - YouTube


On January 12, 1926, the two-man comedy series “Sam ‘n’
Henry” debuted on Chicago  radio station WGN. Two years
later, after changing its name to “Amos ‘n’ Andy,” the show
became one of the most popular radio programs in American
history.

Though the creators and the stars of the new radio program,
Freeman Gosden and Charles Carrell, were both white, the
characters they played were two Black men from the Deep
South who moved to
Chicago to seek their fortunes.

By that time, white actors performing in dark stage makeup—
or “
blackface”—had been a significant tradition in American
theater for over 100 years.

Gosden and Carrell, both vaudeville performers, were doing
a Chicago comedy act in blackface when an employee at the
Chicago Tribune suggested they create a radio show.

Amos 'n' Andy — Radio Hall of Fame

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‘’AMERICA’S OLDEST TEENAGER’’ WAS BORN

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Richard Wagstaff Clark (November 30, 1929 – April 18, 2012)

Dick Clark was a television and radio personality and producer
who hosted American Bandstand from 1956 to 1989.

He also hosted five incarnations of the Pyramid game show from
1973 to 1988
and Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, which
broadcast New Year’s Eve celebrations in New York City’s
Times
Square
.


List of Famous People Who Have Type 2 Diabetes  R.I.P Dick Clark ~ vintage everyday

American Bandstand (1952)

The Other Side of Town.......: Say, there Bandstanders, we have one more question for those cool ...

"The Dick Clark Show" Episode #2.32 (TV Episode 1958) - IMDb

Television stars of the 1960s | Abc photo, American bandstand, Old tv shows

"World's oldest teenager" Dick Clark was anything but a golden oldie | MLive.com
Dick Clark hosting the New Year’s eve special from New
York’s Times Square.

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