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Percy Sutton, Charlie Douglas, Maria Martin & Rusty Walker Among Radio Hall of Fame 2024 Legends of Radio Inductees


Chuck Blore, Maria Martin, Rusty Walker are among the Radio Hall of Fame 2024 Legends of Radio Inductees

Blore served as a disc jockey and program director of several radio stations, launching his career in El Paso, Texas, before moving to Los Angeles in the late 1950s and overseeing KFWB-AM. The Road Gang, hosted by Douglas, played country music and offered conversation and companionship for radio audiences that primarily included truck drivers. The theater was renovated and reopened in 1985 and included a cable television studio that was used to produce the variety show It’s Showtime at the Apollo.

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