Charles Edward and radio personality in Chicago, at such radio stations as WIND and WGN. At WGN he co-hosted a popular show with Jack Brickhouse.
Charles Edward and radio personality in Chicago, at such radio stations as WIND and WGN. At WGN he co-hosted a popular show with Jack Brickhouse.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Hubbard attended the University of Baltimore, following his father's advice to prepare for a secure profession. While there, he found participating in shows to be more appealing. [1] During his sophomore year in college, he began working at radio station WITH as a disk jockey. During his years in Baltimore, he also worked at WCAO and entertained in theaters, night clubs and on a vaudeville circuit. [2]
Hubbard moved to Chicago in the mid-1940s. He worked at WIND-AM and hosted stage shows at the big Loop theaters. He also played the ukulele, performing at lounges around Chicago on weekends. In 1956, he joined WGN as a personality. In addition to his regular duties, that included hosting the morning drive time show until 1965, he appeared on the Saturday night "Barn Dance" show. He wrote some of TV scripts for Hawaiian Eye and Love, American Style . [ citation needed ]
Some sources give Hubbard partial credit for the success of Jerry Murad's Harmonicats' recording of Peg o' My Heart in 1947. An article in the Chicago Sunday Tribune noted, "His way of plugging the tune was the subject of articles in national magazines." [2]
In the early 1980s, Hubbard was host of a daily talk program on WVVX-FM. [3] Hubbard joined WJJD in March 1982, when the station adopted an adult standards format. [4] In 1983, he left WJJD and joined WAIT. [5]
Hubbard supplemented his work in radio by venturing into television. In the late 1940s, he was master of ceremonies for Dollars and Sense on Monday nights and Vaudeo Varieties on Friday nights. Both were on Chicago's WENR-TV, which became WLS-TV. [2] In 1956, he was selected to be host of Dance Party on WBKB-TV in Chicago. [6]
In 1947, Hubbard was elected the first president of the Chicago Disc Jockeys Association. [7]
In 1990, he moved from Chicago to Dallas, the new home of the Satellite Music Network, known later as ABC Radio Networks, where he was the afternoon host on the Stardust format and was heard on hundreds of stations. While with ABC, Hubbard teamed with Dallas radio legend Bud Buschardt. Prior to his move to Dallas, Hubbard broadcast at WJJD, again playing popular recordings of the 1940s/1950s. [ citation needed ]
Hubbard was married to Jackie Smith (née Alice Jacqueline Hartman) (died 1987), first publicity director of Mercury Records. Smith was the mother of Conrad Robert Falk, who would later, as an actor, adopt the stage name Robert Conrad. Hubbard thus was Conrad's stepfather for approximately a decade until he and Smith divorced around 1958. [ citation needed ]
Hubbard died, aged 89, on March 26, 2007 in a Fort Worth, Texas hospital from injuries sustained in an automobile accident in Grand Prairie, Texas. He was survived by his wife, Lill, who survived the crash; daughter Laura (Hubbard) Boone; three grandchildren, Robert Thomas, Jennifer Hawkins, and Evan Kusch – two great-grandchildren, Hannah and Aiden Hawkins; three stepsons, Robert Conrad, Lionel, and Luis; a stepdaughter, Lilly Bouzide; and two step-grandchildren. He outlived his youngest biological daughter, Jacqueline (Hubbard) Ross, who died of brain cancer in 2004.
WGN-TV, virtual channel 9, is an independent television station licensed to Chicago, Illinois, United States. Owned by Irving, Texas-based Nexstar Media Group, it is sister to the company's sole radio property, news/talk/sports station WGN. WGN-TV's studios are located on West Bradley Place in Chicago's North Center community ; its transmitter is located atop the Willis Tower in the Chicago Loop.
WGN is a commercial AM radio station in Chicago, Illinois, with studios on the 18th floor of 303 East Wacker Drive in the Chicago Loop. WGN has a news/talk format, along with broadcasts of Chicago Blackhawks hockey and Northwestern University football and basketball.
Robert Conrad was an American film and television actor, singer, and stuntman. He is best known for his role in the 1965–1969 television series The Wild Wild West, playing the sophisticated Secret Service agent James T. West. He portrayed World War II ace Pappy Boyington in the television series Baa Baa Black Sheep. In addition to acting, he was a singer and recorded several pop/rock songs in the late 1950s and early 1960s as Bob Conrad. He hosted a weekly two-hour national radio show on CRN Digital Talk Radio beginning in 2008.
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NewsNation is an American subscription television network owned by the Nexstar Media Group, and is the company's only wholly owned, national cable-originated television channel. The channel runs a mixture of entertainment programming for most of the broadcast day and a straight-news format during the evening and early overnight hours. Known for most of its history as Superstation WGN and WGN America, on March 1, 2021, the channel was relaunched from WGN America into NewsNation, a cable news network named after its flagship news program, as part of a planned expansion of its news programming.
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Sean Compton is a Chicago-based radio and television executive. Compton began his career in radio in 1990. In 1993 he became Program Director of Cincinnati radio station WSAI eventually rising to VP of programming in 1999 for Clear Channel Radio and Premiere Radio Networks. He currently serves as President, Networks overseeing cable network NewsNation, Antenna TV, WGN Radio, and content Acquisition for Dallas-based Nexstar Media Group. Compton left his VP of programming role at Clear Channel to join Tribune Company in 2008 as President of TV programming. In September 2019, Nexstar Media closed on its acquisition of Tribune Media naming Compton to his new position. Compton also created and manages classic television network Antenna TV. In April 2021 it was announced by Nexstar that the networks division was launching REWIND TV, a companion network to Antenna TV airing shows from the 80's and 90's. In 2004, while at Clear Channel, Compton created Donald Trump's daily radio political commentary “Trumped” that aired on radio stations across the U.S. until 2008. Compton created or produced the launch of other programs which included hosts Bob Costas, Arsenio Hall, Whoopi Goldberg and Ryan Seacrest.
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John Henry Drees was an American sportscaster who worked for ABC and CBS, as well as various stations in Chicago.
Robert Trendler was an American bandleader, songwriter, and musical director of the WGN Orchestra from 1956 till 1975. Trendler was known in Chicago as Mr. Bob the bandleader of Bozo's Big Top Band, on Bozo's Circus, a television program for children home from school for lunch.
Arthur Lawrence "Art" Hellyer Jr. was an American radio and television broadcaster whose professional career spanned the years 1947–2012 and included local and national network radio programs as a disc jockey, radio and television news reporter and anchor, sports reporter, game show television host, and live and recorded television and radio commercials.
Dick "Two Ton" Baker was an American singer and entertainer who was a prominent Chicago radio and television personality for three decades; the 1940s to the 1960s. He gained some national exposure in the United States through his recordings for Mercury Records and his Mutual Broadcasting System radio show.
