Edition #1362 |
Talent: "WILDE
CHILDE" DICK KEMP
Station: WYNR Chicago
Date: September 1, 1962
Time: 59:58
(unscoped)
32:20 (scoped)
The "Wilde Childe" was a winner everywhere he
jocked, including the station with that very name.
The fast-talking, witty Dick Kemp - heard here on WYNR's (Winner's) first day - was an entertaining force at the Chicago outlet intended as competition for the well-established WLS. But despite the best efforts of the Gordon McLendon owned station, WYNR's 5,000-watt signal was no match for the 50,000-watt blowtorch that was WLS. By 1964 WYNR was gone, replaced by an all-news station appropriately named WNUS. (McLendon liked call letters that sounded like a word).
Kemp was at KLIF Dallas prior to WNYR. His stops after WNYR include WYSL Buffalo, N.Y., WIXY Cleveland and WIXZ McKeesport, Pa. He moved to Alaska afer his radio days.
Enjoy Dick
Kemp on WNYR (UNSCOPED) here. 
Enjoy Dick
Kemp on WNYR (SCOPED) here.
(The Don Shuttleworth Collection)
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