March 12, 1945 - September 3, 2010
Rest in Peace, my friend
Rest in Peace, my friend
Added....from RadioDailyNews.com: "Jay Blackburn, who'd served in Vietnam in combat, died in San Antonio where he and his wife Chancey lived. His major radio achievement was the creation of The Loop in Chicago with his partner Bruce Miller Earle. He and Earle consulted and/or programmed many radio stations in the United States and aboard, working for Art Holt, a radio station broker and station owner whose career goes back to years with Gordon McLendon.
Jay authored "The Radio Gypsies" and was a mentor for Claude Hall's eNovel "I Love Radio." "Jay and Bruce Miller Earle were close friends dating back to the 1960s," said Claude Hall, once Radio-TV Editor of Billboard Magazine and later a college profession. "I considered them lovable radio rascals and will miss Jay Blackburn immensely."
Read J's obituary from Legacy.com here.
Read Claude Hall's thoughts on J here (scroll down to "Blackburn Matters")
Bruce Miller Earle corrects the record on WLUP here (scroll down to "Loop Matters")
Read Chicagoland Radio & Media's post here.
Chicago Sun-Times article on J (9/8/10) here.
Listen to WLUP's March, 1977 sign-on here (via Tom O'Toole; MP3 download)
More on J. Blackburn from this blog here.
