July 29 Radio History

In 1977...Clint Buehlmann did his last show on WBEN 930 AM, Buffalo, New York. He had been a highly-rated morning personality for about 40 years.




In 2002...Tex McCrary - WEAF/WRCA/WNBC, WOR - 2003, died at age 92 in Manhattan.

Tex McCrary

He a legendary New York public relations man and political strategist who with his wife, the actress and model Jinx Falkenburg, helped create and popularize the talk-show format on radio and television in the 1940's and 50's, died yesterday in Manhattan.

In their prime in the 1950's, ''Tex and Jinx,'' as they were widely known, had two radio shows, a five-day-a-week television show, a syndicated column in The New York Herald Tribune and still found time to make many personal appearances. They broadcast some of their shows from Peacock Alley in the Waldorf-Astoria where they interviewed guests as glamorous as they were.


In 2007…Newsman/radio-TV talk show host (Tomorrow, The Late Late Show, The Tom Snyder Show) Tom Snyder died from complications of leukemia at 71.