Wesley South

CTL-E-1200 · Person · unspecified

Verified evidence grade of this record

Original WVON "Good Guy" (1963); co-founded Midway Broadcasting Corporation with Pervis Spann (1979), launching WXOL on 1450 AM in August 1979; as WVON co-owner, opted to flip the station to talk format in 1986, creating Chicago's first Black talk-radio format.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from BMI-002; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-BMI-002:wesley-south; source research type(s): person. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

Congressional Record (Davis 2013); Illinois HR0201
Congressional Record (Davis 2013)

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