2006-06-29 17:29:10 · 4 answers · asked by radioshowwife 1 in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
Edward R. Merrel.
2006-07-06 06:51:31 · answer #1 · answered by CottonPatch 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Talk radio has existed since at least the mid-1940s. Working for New York's WMCA in 1945, Barry Gray was bored with playing music and put a telephone receiver up to his microphone to talk with bandleader Woody Herman. Soon followed by listener call-ins, this is often credited as the first instance of talk radio, and Gray is often billed as "The Father of Talk Radio".
Joe Pyne and John Nebel were also among the first to explore the medium in the 1950s.
Two radio stations—KMOX, 1120 AM in St. Louis, Missouri, and KABC, 790 AM in Los Angeles—adopted an all-talk show format in 1960, and both claim to be the first to have done so. KABC station manager Ben Hoberman and KMOX station manager Robert Hyland independently developed the all-talk format
2006-07-07 16:53:06 · answer #2 · answered by MTSU history student 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Barry Gray is often called "The Father of Talk Radio" because he got bored playing music and started having call in conversations with Woody Herman (the bandleader of his show). People started calling in to the show on their own after that.
This happened in 1945, but the format wasn't used widely until the sixties.
2006-07-07 11:02:32 · answer #3 · answered by Jo B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That reminds me...Rush is on. See you later.
2006-07-07 12:36:53 · answer #4 · answered by bystander1212 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋