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“The Arch” Takes Over Music Radio in St. Louis

The date was April 10, 2005. Smooth jazz listeners who turned on their radio station in St. Louis that day found something completely different from...

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“Voice of St. Louis” Opened to the World

Wrapped about in a holiday garb of music and speeches, KMOX, the new superpower broadcasting station known as the “Voice of St. Louis,” was officially...

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Always A Showman

Dizzy Dean It’s hard to imagine baseball fans pledging their loyalty to a radio play-by-play man named “Jerome” or “Herman” but they loved him. To...

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An Inside Look At KWK’s Golden Days

In 1946, GIs who served on both war fronts were being assimilated back into society, and they were spending money freely, priming the nation’s economic...

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Blandwagon Artist True Showman

One of radio’s busiest and most successful entertainers is Al Bland, veteran KMOX comedian, dialectician, philosopher and creator of the highly amusing “Blandwagon.” Patterned after...

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Buster Brown Goes to the White House

It was his first day on the job as the voice of Buster Brown on KMOX in 1926. No one, not even Bryson Rash himself,...

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Change At the Top at KMOX

J.L. Van Volkenburg has been appointed Director of Operations subsequent to the resignation of William H. West who has served in that capacity for the...
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Delmar King, Versatile KWK Star Reveals His Secret Ambition

When Del King, announcer at KWK, sings the title role as a star of the Metropolitan Opera, then he will be truly happy. He confided...

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Don Hunt, KMOX’s “Uncle Billy” Author of Radiomusicomedy

Versatility – one of the first requisites of a radio station attaché – is shown in the remarkable combination of talents of Don Hunt, chief...

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Dr. Jockenstein – Operating On Your Mind

by Kerry Manderbach “This is Doctor Jockenstein…operating on your mind. Here on W-W-W-W-ESL, East St. Louis!” Who is Dr. Jockenstein? And how did he get...