Radio founders Radio founders Allan Waters ( August 11, 1921- December 3, 2005) was a Canadian businessman and media icon. Waters was one of the founders of CHUM Limited, a Canadian media corporation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Allan Waters"
Claude Fournelle is a radio profesionnal from Montreal, Quebec. He is the founder of Québec-Radio internet radio station and is involved in the Quebec sovereignty movement. ...more on Wikipedia about "Claude Fournelle"
Edward S. “Ted” Rogers, Sr. ( June 21, 1900 – May 6, 1939) is regarded as the founder of Rogers Communications although it was established in 1967. He is not to be confused with comedian Ted Rogers. He died at the age of 38. ...more on Wikipedia about "Edward S. Rogers, Sr."
Gordon Barton McLendon (born June 8, 1921 in Paris, Texas; died September 14, 1986) is widely credited for perfecting, with great commercial success, the Top 40 radio format during the 1950s and 1960s which was first invented by Todd Storz. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gordon McLendon"
J. Conrad Lavigne ( November 2, 1916- April 16, 2003) was a pioneering Canadian media proprietor. ...more on Wikipedia about "J. Conrad Lavigne"
Jack Kent Cooke ( 25 October, 1912 – 6 April, 1997) was a Canadian entrepreneur who became one of the most widely-known executives in North American professional sports. He is particularly remembered for owning the Washington Redskins and the Los Angeles Lakers, bringing professional ice hockey to Southern California in the form of the NHL's Los Angeles Kings, and building the Great Western Forum in Inglewood, the former home of the Lakers and Kings, one of L.A.'s most recognizable landmarks. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jack Kent Cooke"
Lowry Mays is the founder and current chairman of Clear Channel Communications. After a stroke in 2005, Mr. Mays relinquished his position as CEO of the company to his son, Mark. He is a graduate of Texas A&M University, Class of 1957, and has been a major contributor to the school. It is for him that the university's Mays School of Business is named. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lowry Mays"
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Raymond Green was born in 1913 in Torrington, Connecticut, and went on to be a pioneer in broadcasting. He was the CEO and Founder of WFLN Radio in Philadelphia and in 1946. He went on to be an announcer and manager at NBC ...more on Wikipedia about "Raymond Green"
Sheldon Drobny, married to Anita Drobny is Chairman Emeritus of Paradigm Group II, LLC, an investment firm that serves as managing partner of Paradigm Millennium Fund, LP, which entities together are a principal and largest shareholder of the Company. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sheldon Drobny"
Stephen Dunifer is the founder of Free Radio Berkeley in Berkeley, California. Free Radio Berkeley, an unlicensed micropower pirate radio station, was involved in a protracted legal case with the Federal Communications Commission in the mid- 1990s They were eventually acquitted of all charges, marking a major victory for micropower radio. FRB eventually stopped broadcasting and turned all their resources to developing new micropower technology and training activists in the use of pirate radio. They were replaced on the dial by Berkeley Liberation Radio, which has also been a target of the federal government. Stephen Dunifer is also author of several books on the micropower movement. He was coeditor along with Ron Sakolsky of Seizing the Airwaves. ...more on Wikipedia about "Stephen Dunifer"
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