August 6 In Radio History

In 1939…Dinah Shore began her own Sunday evening radio show on the NBC Blue network.


In 1973...Wolfman Jack did his first broadcast on WNBC 660 AM, New York.

The Wolfman was paid handsomely to join WNBC in New York in August 1973, the same month that American Graffiti premiered, and the station did a huge advertising campaign in local newspapers that the Wolfman would propel their ratings over that of their main competitor, WABC, which had "Cousin Brucie" (Bruce Morrow).

The ads would proclaim, "Cousin Brucie's Days Are Numbered", and they issued thousands of small tombstone-shaped paperweights which said, "Cousin Brucie is going to be buried by Wolfman Jack".

After less than a year, WNBC hired Cousin Brucie, and Wolfman Jack went back to California to concentrate on his syndicated radio show.


In 1982...WQXI 790 AM in Atlanta is 1st to use Harris Corp AM stereo system


In 1991...Broadcast journalist Harry Reasoner died. He was 68.


In 1998…Baseball Hall of Famer Jack Brickhouse, a Chicago Cubs broadcaster for four decades, died of heart failure at 82.


In 2008...WHTT becomes WNYM 970 AM with conservative talk format