Word: wsb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...journalism. On some stations, in fact, there are hopeful signs. A number of dabblers in happy talk are sobering up after their earlier excesses, and have settled on an informal format far superior to the original portentous and lugubrious style of TV news. Atlanta's WSB has toned down its forced spontaneity, and the ABC-owned station in Chicago, WLS, which was among the first to succeed with news giggles, has recently reverted to being just as straight and enterprising as (but no more than) any other news gatherer in town. The test for WLS, and the Chicago audience...
RADIO in the twenties went a long way towards consolidating what had been up to then several different strains of rural music. In 1922, WSB broadcast from Atlanta the first country music show, with an unprecedented response of 9,000 letters requesting more songs and artists. Record companies brought portable recording studios and the musicians flowed out of the hills...