Barney Keep with Bob Hazen of The Benj. Franklin Savings
& Loan Association who also had a radio show on KEX.
On February 14, 1979 BARNEY KEEP, KEX Morning Radio icon
broadcast his last KEEP TIME show, from Portland’s Civic
Theater. The last TODAY’S CHUCKLE that morning…”Old
disc jockeys never retire , They just go off the record."
Byron George “Barney” Keep (1917 – 2021)
Freeman Gosden (“Amos”) and Charles Carrell (“Andy”).
On January 12, 1926, the two-man comedy series “Sam ‘n’ Henry”
debuted on Chicago’s WGN radio station. Two years later, after
changing its name to “Amos ‘n’ Andy,” the show becomes 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.
Gosden and Correll celebrate the tenth anniversary of the
show on NBC in March 1938.
Radio KXL signed on the air from Portland, Ore. in 1926.
https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Station-Albums/KXL-Portland-OR-Moving-Ahead.pdf
Suspense is a radio drama series broadcast on CBS Radio from
1940 through 1962
One of the premier drama programs of the Golden Age of Radio,
it was subtitled "radio’s outstanding theater of thrills" and focused
on suspense thriller-type scripts, usually featuring leading
Hollywood actors of the era.
Approximately 945 episodes were broadcast during its long run,
and more than 900 still exist.
Lurene Tuttle (left) and Rosalind Russell.
WABC radio fired DJ Alan Freed on November 21, 1959 after
he refused to sign a FCC statement denying that he had
accepted money for promoting records, a practice known
as "payola."
While WABC cited its "contractual right to terminate," the
dismissal happened amid a larger payola scandal that
ultimately ruined his career.
Albert James "Alan" Freed
(December 15, 1921 – January 20, 1965)
