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WLS Channel 7 - Kennedy And Company - "WLS Deejays" (1972)

Fenway1912

Fenway1912

Here's a rare segment from the morning show Kennedy and Company on WLS Channel 7, hosted by the late Bob Kennedy. This was the predecessor to AM Chicago (which was begun after Kennedy's death in 1974), and is considered in some corners to be an ancestor to the recently-ended The Oprah Winfrey Show.

This segment was devoted to the disc jockeys of WLS Musicradio 89, which was the top-rated Top 40 music station in Chicago at the time. Featured are Chuck Buell, J.J. Jeffrey, "Superjock" Larry Lujack, John "Records" Landecker, Bill Bailey, Gary Gears (later the voice of many a program promo for Channel 7), and Fred Winston.

http://fuzzymemories.tv/#videoclip-3719
 
Watched it Fenway...great stuff....Bob Kennedy and Sandi Freeman were suppose to go network with ABC for their new Good Morning America, and I beleive that planned ended when Bob Kennedy passed from a brain tumour......
 
Northwest Bobby said:
Watched it Fenway...great stuff....Bob Kennedy and Sandi Freeman were suppose to go network with ABC for their new Good Morning America, and I beleive that planned ended when Bob Kennedy passed from a brain tumour......
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...A.M. America, actually (the network went with Good Morning America after A.M. America stiffed). I assume this is the same Sandi Freeman who popped up on WTBS/17 Atlanta and CNN in its earliest years, and was replaced with Larry King when she couldn't reach terms on a new contract with Turner Broadcasting?...
 
I know Kennedy is a common name, but is this Bob Kennedy related to Wally Kennedy from Chicago, who has been in Philadelphia for over 30 years on radio and TV, currently on KYW 1060? Wally began his radio career on WEAW Evanston.
 
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