WNTD
WNTD (950 AM) is a radio station licensed to Chicago, Illinois. It is owned by Relevant Radio, Inc. Its has separate day-time (1,000 watts; non-directional) and night-time (5,000 watts; directional) transmitter locations. It is currently one of three stations in the Chicago market that airs Relevant Radio, a Catholic talk format, 24 hours a day. History WAAF The station was licensed by the Department of Commerce on April 7, 1922. It was one of the first radio stations licensed. It was owned by the '' Chicago Daily Drover's Journal'', with its transmitter and studios at the Union Stock Yards.AM Histories
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Daddy-O Daylie
Holmes Daylie (May 15, 1920 – February 6, 2003) was a radio jock on radio stations in the 1940s and 1950s that rhymed and rapped playing bebop and was one of the early pioneers of black-appeal radio. His upbeat patter and rhyming delivery from the 1940s to 1970s on stations WAAF, WMAQ, WAIT, WGN and other broadcast outlets and television stations brought Daddy-O-Daylie, as he was known, fame and following amongst both black and white audiences. He was inducted into the Black Radio Hall of Fame in Atlanta in 1990. Early life Daylie's mother died giving birth in Covington, Tennessee and his father passed away 5 years later; then an older brother, Clinton (he was the youngest of 12 siblings,) took him in. The family moved to south side Chicago while he was still a child. He attended John D. Shoop elementary and in 1938 he graduated Morgan Park High School where he was captain on the schools basketball team. This got him a six-month stint with the Harlem Globetrotters, which trave ...
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