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The Founder’s Blog #2: 9.11.2001 and the Inside Workings of a Radio News Network

By Steve West September 11, 2024

As I write this, today is September 11. Many radio stations will have short memorial productions about the event, but for the majority of stations on the air today, it's'…

Rick Dees on WHBQ 560 Memphis | June 2 1977

By Ellis Feaster February 23, 2024

WHBQ 560 Memphis - Rick Dees - June 2 1977 From The Java Joel Murphy Collection Before he was cranking out the hits at 102.7 KIIS-FM Los Angeles, and…

Rick Dees on 560 WHBQ Memphis | June 2 1977

By Ellis Feaster August 7, 2023

WHBQ 560 Memphis - Rick Dees - June 2 1977 Before he was cranking out the hits at 102.7 KIIS-FM Los Angeles, and before he was rockin' the Southland…

Dewey Phillips on WHBQ 56 Memphis | November 1950

By Ellis Feaster July 25, 2022

WHBQ 56 Memphis - Dewey Phillips - November 1950 As the most popular radio disc jockey in Memphis in the late 1940s and the 1950s, Dewey Phillips was…

Dewey Phillips on WHBQ 56 Memphis | 1950s

By Ellis Feaster March 25, 2022

WHBQ 56 Memphis - Dewey Phillips - 1950s As the most popular radio disc jockey in Memphis in the late 1940s and the 1950s, Dewey Phillips was a…

Dewey Phillips, 56 WHBQ Memphis | 1952

By Steve West January 23, 2021

When did the Rock & Roll genre begin and where? It's possible it all started right here, in a tiny little studio in Memphis, Tennessee.

Wink Martindale, Saturday Morning Dance Party on 56 WHBQ Memphis | 1956

By Steve West August 20, 2019

...this aircheck was likely from a few months before the station actually went Top 40.

560 Memphis WHBQ Rob Grayson Chris Curtis George Kline Jack Parnell

Rick Dees in the Morning, 56 WHBQ Memphis – Part 2 | August 3, 1978

By Steve West July 17, 2019

"...The Rolling Stones, McKeever's favorite group, sometimes known to him as the Rolling Clones.... "