After being the emcee at an event where she and other professionals were honored, I networked and kept in touch with many in attendance. Russ Parr | Source: The Washington Post / Getty. From host Jody Avirgan (30 for 30, FiveThirtyEight, Radiotopia) and the TED Audio Collective, Good Sport is your guide through an array of stadiums, pitches, pools and slopes that shed a light on the ups and downs of being human. Atlanta Radio Personalities Among National Black Radio Hall Of Fame Inductees. Learn how and when to remove this template message, North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement, RadioInsight.com . My mother instilled education in all of us, and made it a priority for us growing up. I think the black media in general, and WVON specifically, played a profound role in history and, in one case I can cite, the election of Chicago's first black mayor (Harold Washington). Jack Diamond hosted the Jack Diamond Morning Show in Washington, DC for ABC radio for 30 years! The Matt McGilf Show will air weekdays from 1pm until 3 right before . [27] On August 24, 1976, FM classical music station WFMT was allowed to simulcast on 1450 as an interim operator while the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) evaluated applications for a new license for the frequency. [48] The WRLL call letters were assigned to Midway's half of the time-share on 1450 at Cicero, Illinois. And it went right to Marmions Collin Wainscott. This city loves its institutions, those that it grows up with. NDIGO recently caught up with Samantha to chat about her Chicago roots, why she chose to attend an HBCU, how she got into journalism, her go to fashion choices, and, of course, her new job at WVON 1690AM. Chicago has WVON, ATL has WAOK!!! And two important guests I remember listening to were Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King. Melvin Lindsey, the originator of the "Quiet Storm" late-night music programming format and Washington D.C air personality the 1970-1980s. We were out in the midst of that. There was this feeling, there was this undercurrent that just ran throughout our community (that) the mainstream media kind of missed. Sway himself became the morning personality on KMEL-FM, and then was hired by MTV as an on-air host and journalist. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jake Halpern reveals webs of deception and dark underworlds, through interviews with federal agents and convicted criminals. Not everyone is pleasant to deal with all of the time. So I would watch and learn about being put together and neat. [13] They accepted the random issue call sign WXOL, while Migala chose WCEV ("We're Chicagoland's Ethnic Voice") as their call sign. But originally, journalism wasnt my major. Widely considered to be the first African-American radio announcer, Jack L. Coopers All Negro radio show aired in the 1930s on Chicagos WSBC. So it was listened to by almost everyone in Chicago who was African and American, and I'm sure whites and others listened, too, because of the music. Once that job ended for me, I knew I had to be creative and innovative. [29], In 1977, Combined Communications Corporation purchased Globetrotter Communications, and the following year Combined Communications merged with Gannett Co.[30][31] In 1982, Yvonne Daniels joined WVON as morning drive host. Known as one of the original shock-jocks, Greene was a trailblazer of talk radio; and his influence was such that he has been credited with quashing the riots in Washington, D.C. in the wake of Martin Luther King Jr.s assassination. Check out the latest episodes featuring Opal Staples and Myracle Holloway. 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WVON, in all of its glory, it has to continue that legacy of being honest, of being culturally specific. I don't know. We mixed that in there. Producing on that show was my break from producing tv news, and an introduction to the restaurant scene. People keep asking me, "What will the next 50 years look like?" In 1998, Joyner became the first African-American inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame. Say. Many people in the black community knew he was going to win. FM had this great sound: stereo. If you had a superpower, what would it be and why? Seven years later, their stories collided when a small town detective got a tip and became convinced that if he could solve one mystery, he'd solve the other. In 1994, The Fly Jock became one of the first nationally syndicated Black DJs when was hired to host his own program, the Tom Joyner Morning Show, which spread to 29 stations. King, Ike Turner, and Bobby Blue Bland. Jack has been career long friends with Mike Love of the Beach Boys, and has performed with a Beach Boys on many occasions, including at Wolf Trap. I knew that I had more experience in television, so I operated in that vision. WVON 1690 AM is a News/Talk radio station serving Chicago. They didn't know we were all black. in Cicero. WVON's origins lie in WHFC, which began in 1926, broadcasting from the Hotel Flanders in Chicago. This was not personal, right? Shes also had a long-standing career, and I think its partly because shes so real. ABC7 was there for WVON's star-studded gala in 2013, celebrating 50 years of elevating Black culture. [4] In the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, WHFC aired ethnic and African-American programming. Main Menu. Self-effacing where Magic was brash, Red Alert became a beloved figure of listeners and rappers alike. Season three, Never Seen Again, tells the story of two women, living on opposite sides of the country, who went missing in the summer of 1999. [1] Early life [ edit] Spann was born in Itta Bena, Mississippi, on August 16, 1932. Owned and operated by Pollack Broadcasting . "We are part of this nation, so we are the voice of a nation.". [4] WHFC's frequency was changed to 1450 in 1941, as a result of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement. Martin Luther King Jr. used this station as his bully pulpit in the latter part of his life, in the years he spent in Chicago, between '66 to '68. After college, Williams started her career in radio as an intern for Kiss 108 in Boston, and made the move to New York Citys Kiss-FM, where she eventually landed her own air shift; and then on to New Yorks Hot 97. Part cohost and part cosigner, Quivers has maintained a precarious and controversial role as a foil for Sterns arguably racist rants: Does her presence give Stern a pass, or does she keep him in check? The music was an inspiration. After starting as a DJat WGES in Chicago in 1952, Cordell moved to WGRY in Gary before working at WVON in Chicago. And I tell my sales staff, "We're not counting the people we reach, we're reaching the people that really count. Listen, where else can a Barack Obama, an Oprah Winfrey and a Michael Jordan, three of America's biggest phenomena of our generation (where else) could they have been had they not touched this soil? We had to get it done, and get it done efficiently fast. Officers also tried to rescue the Cordells but could not make it into the room where they were trapped because ofthe heat, authorities said. 30.11.2021. Chicago Defender had an opportunity to chat with Samantha Thomas about her career, new show, and about being a fearless woman in media. "Don Cornelius also started his career at WVON," added Spann-Cooper, referencing the late creator and. Stayed on the air, didn't play music but took telephone calls from people all over Chicago, the suburbs. 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