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Mary Dee (Mary Dudley) went on the air at WHOD radio in 1948. Gaining national attention, Dee broadcast from a storefront, "Studio Dee," in the Hill District of Pittsburgh from 1951 to 1956. She moved her show, Movin' Around with Mary Dee, to Baltimore and broadcast from station WSID from 1956 to 1958. In 1958, she moved to Philadelphia and hosted Songs of Faith on WHAT until her death in 1964.

Dee is widely considered the first African-American woman disc jockey in the United States. She was also one of the first two black women admitted to the Association of American Women in Radio and Television, and was successful in campaigning for the organization to forgo meetings in segregated facilities. (Wikipedia)

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#DJmonday Originally posted November 9, 2013.

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Montagsveranstaltungen haben immer was besonderes, um so mehr wenn es in einer besonderen Location stattfindet am #chiemsee… #eventdj #steghousechiemsee #djmonday #bavaria #eventlocation (hier: Munich, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiuVOB1o0ja/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Lamericano! #starting #mixing #djing #dj #djlife🎧 #djatwork #newvides #edits #djmonday #virtual8 #djbooth #djconsole (at Reina Music Bar)

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as a DJ I so wish there would be a Sunday #2 to relax the bone…but a new well already started so let’s do this…. 

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2sdaze #djmondays 😂😂😂😂 Hope y'all had a good start so far.

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#DJMonday John "Mr. Magic" Rivas debuted in 1979 on WHBI in New York City with “Disco Showcase.” Later, he moved to WBLS with the first exclusive rap radio show to be aired on a major station. His reign on the New York City airwaves lasted six years and was instrumental in broadening the scope and validity of hip-hop music. (Wikipedia)

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"Between 1954 and 1971, Miss Starr was the cowgirl queen of the living-room screen. With white hat topping her long platinum locks, a fringed and starred cowgirl outfit and boots, Miss Starr corralled youngsters every afternoon for Popeye Theater." – The Philadelphia Inquirer (1/28/2013)

Sally Starr began her broadcasting career in the late 1940s as host of Country Music Jamboree on radio station WJMJ in Philadelphia. She was the first top-rated female disc jockey in the country, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer, acting as announcer, writer, and producer for her show. In the 1950s she began hosting a popular weekday afternoon cartoon show on local television.

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#DJmonday Lee "Doc" Lemon, Cleveland disc jockey, "started a new seg on TV station WEWS, which runs for a solid hour, six nights weekly. Following this, he runs over to WDOK where he conducts a jazz disk show from 2 to 5 a.m. Then at 6 a.m., he shows up at WJMO, where he holds forth until 9:30. The latter shows are also on six days. The grand total is 45 hours per week. 

"Lemon’s avowed aim on his WDOK all-night show is to keep listeners awake. This is assuming he can do the same for himself." – Billboard, June 17, 1950

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"Teenage disc jockey contest is being aired five nights a week over WPTR, Albany, N. Y. Moderated by Martin Ross, WPTR disc jockey [above], programs each week feature two teenage contestants who compete for listeners' letter votes... Prizes awarded to the final winner include assorted gifts, a scroll, and an opportunity to do a regularly scheduled WPTR disc show." – Radio Showmanship, October 1949

Born Martin Schwartz, Ross began his broadcast career in 1942 at 14 with WBCA-FM radio in Schenectady, NY. Two years later, he joined WPTR in Albany and changed his name to Ross at the station's request. In 1948, Ross won the Ohio State University award for outstanding programming while news director at WPTR. He became news director at WNYS-TV in Syracuse in 1962, then joined WJW-TV in Cleveland in 1965. He became co-anchorman on the Cleveland station's City Camera News in 1967.

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#DJmonday  DJ Bob Mabry at KTOO-AM 1280, the “Kool Voice of Vegas,” broadcasting from Henderson.

Photos by Clinton Wright, photographer for Las Vegas Voice in the 60s-70s. Clinton Wright Photographs (PH-00379), UNLV Special Collections.

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BONUS WIMS PHOTO: "Chief Engineer Robert J. Schilling cues a record player prior to a taping session in the WIMS control room. Along with regular engineering duties, the WIMS technical staff is active in civic affairs."

WIMS has been broadcasting live from Michigan City, Indiana, since 1947.

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Jack Taylor's career began on Armed Forces Radio, then took him to WINN in Louisville, Kentucky (seen here), and in 1950, to WCFL in Chicago. He moved to WBBM Radio in 1954, then to his broadcast home for many years, WGN-TV, Chicago, in 1958. #DJMonday 

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"One of the most popular features on WDIA is 'Tan Town Jamboree,' the first program introduced by Nat Williams…The South's first Negro disk jockey, Nat is considered by both white and Negro listeners as one of the best early-morning personalities on the air when he broadcasts his 'Tan Town Coffee Club' at 6:30." – The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN), June 20, 1954

Nathaniel "Nat" D. Williams became the first black radio announcer in Memphis when he began broadcasting for WDIA in 1948. (This was in addition to his work as a high school teacher at Booker T. Washington High School, a columnist for the Pittsburgh Courier, a journalist for the Memphis World, and Master of Ceremonies for Amateur Night at the Old Palace Theater.) Williams was so successful at WDIA that the station switched to all-black programming and became the city's top station. After a boost to 50,000 watts, Williams and other WDIA personalities were heard across the Mississippi Delta.

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"[Barry] Gray, widely credited with creating the talk show format and a fixture on the airwaves for almost half a century… was an itinerant disk jockey – obstreperous and adolescent, he was once called – in California and Florida before being hired at WMCA in New York In 1950." — New York Times, 12/23/1996

From a 1965 press release: "The program originated in Chandler's restaurant, and subsequently was broadcast from such restaurants as Hutton's, the Delmonico Hotel and the Shelton Hotel. One difficulty with broadcasting from restaurants, however, was that only celebrities would agree to be interviewed there. Well-known government officials and political figures would not come to a restaurant to talk. 'Eleanor Roosevelt wouldn't come to a saloon,' as Barry Gray explains. In addition, guests waiting to go on-the-air at a restaurant often passed too much time at the bar. In 1957, to achieve better-balanced programs, the Barry Gray Show moved into the WMCA studios, where it has originated ever since."

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In 1951, D.J. Bob Sanders had the late night shift at WFBR in Baltimore, Maryland (Baltimore Sun, 6/14/1951). It’s a fair guess that the program was sponsored by White Tower Hamburgers. 

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