Listening to Black radio DJs as daily companionship (the 'Good Guys' era)

CTL-E-1317 · Practice · other · 1963–1979

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

The lived practice of tuning to Black DJs — voices, patter, dedications, community announcements — as distinct from the music alone.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from LIFE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-LIFE-001:CTL-LIFE-E-054; source research type(s): practice.

Sources

David Hoekstra/Chicago Sun-Times via Media Confidential (April 2013); Congressional Record H2072–H2073
Congressional Record H2072–H2073; T Dog Media (April 2013)

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