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Hey, Pittsburghers! (Or do you call yourselves Pittsburghites? "Pittsburgher" sounds like a fast-food item.) How nice of you to have a thread about 860 AM. On the Chicago board, there is a discussion regarding the first female DJ. Yvonne Daniels was the first in Chicago and Evelyn Scott was likely the first in Los Angeles. Scott apparently began in 1948 at KMPC but I don't know exactly when. I discovered that in August of 1948, Mary Dee Dudley launched a 15-minute program on WHOD-860. Her show eventually expanded to two hours. In 1956 the station became WAMO. (Yeah, Porky Chedwick!) The station is now Christian talk WAOB. In the good ol' American tradition of identifying everyone in terms of race and color, various obituaries and websites refer to Mary Dee Dudley as "first negro female DJ" or "first black female DJ" or "first African-American female DJ." She might also be the first female DJ, period. The research goes on.
https://sites.google.com/site/pittsburghmusichistory/pittsburgh-music-story/radio/mary-dee-dudley
https://sites.google.com/site/pittsburghmusichistory/pittsburgh-music-story/radio/mary-dee-dudley
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Thomps2525
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Schrodingers Cat (not his real name) noted on the Chicago forum that Vivian Carter Bracken, the "Vee" of Vee-Jay Records, worked at WGES and WJOB in 1948. So there are at least three women who became DJs in 1948. There are probably many more. Were there any prior to 1948? And did the deaths of so many men in World War II have anything to do with the rise of female DJs? This could be a good topic for a book!
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