The first venture was Project Atlanta in 1963, which had ties to British political leaders, bankers, the music industry and to Gordon McLendon, who had helped Radio Nord broadcast from a ship off Sweden.

By most accounts, McLendon was handily defeated, but, by then, most radio stations had followed McLendon's suggestion not to play the record.

Drake-Chenault perfected the Top 40 radio format, which had been created by Todd Storz, Gordon McLendon and other radio programmers in the late 1950s, which took a set list of popular songs and repeated them all day long, ensuring the widest possible audience for the station's music.

In 1959 Gordon McLendon, who had interests in Top-40 radio in Dallas as well as other markets decided to " counter-program " in San Francisco since several Top-40 stations were already there.

This radio ship had been originally converted and outfitted ( under the name MV Bon Jour ) as the home of the offshore Swedish station Radio Nord by the radio interests of Gordon McLendon and financed by fellow Texan Clint Murchison.

From local radio station KLIF, Gary Delaune, Joe Long ( who had reported the President's arrival at Love Field earlier from KLIF News Mobile Unit # 4 ) and Gordon McLendon ( having returned to the radio station from the Trade Mart ) relayed the bulletins as received.

By this time McLendon had successful stations in El Paso ( KELP ) Dallas ( KLIF ) and Houston ( KILT ) and used the El Paso and San Antonio stations as farm teams for the larger markets.

According to Time magazine articles of the era, McLendon only paid Major League Baseball $ 1, 000. 00 per year for the rights to broadcast the games, but in 1951, the leagues raised the price to $ 250, 000. 00 per year, and prohibited broadcasts in any city which had a minor league franchise and in the northeastern and midwestern United States.

The original plan had been to launch a Top 40 format on KROW, but after McLendon and his team visited the market and discovered there were already several Top 40 stations, they decided there wasn't room for another one.

In early May 1959, KROW began " stunting " with a continuous loop of a song called " Gila Monster ," the theme song from a horror film that Gordon McLendon had co-produced that year.

On March 10, 2009, in the Alabama towns of Kinston, Samson and Geneva, Michael McLendon killed several people before committing suicide.

On March 10, 2009, in the Alabama towns of Kinston, Samson and Geneva, Michael McLendon killed several people before committing suicide.

McLendon, American football running back, holds several national HS records.

* On March 10, 2009, a gunman named Michael McLendon went on a mass shooting spree at 9 locations in Geneva County from the town of Samson to the city of Geneva killing 11 people and wounding over 15.

After three weeks of intense speculation throughout March 1949 as to whom the governor might choose for the Senate, attention focused on individuals ranging from the senator's widow, who expressed no interest ; Scott's former campaign manager, Capus Miller Waynick ; another Scott supporter, Major Lennox Polk McLendon, a lawyer from Greensboro, North Carolina ; former Senator Umstead ; and the governor himself.

He finally convinced McLendon that a new Winnipeg station would likely hurt KCND, since Winnipeg advertisers would probably no longer be allowed to deduct their American advertising costs from their taxes for much longer.

In 1974, a group led by Israel Asper bought the assets of Pembina, North Dakota television station KCND-TV from broadcaster Gordon McLendon, moving the station to Winnipeg as independent station CKND-TV.

The fifth point was originally Seminole Avenue, which met the intersection from the northwest, but the Seminole point was converted to a plaza and there is no longer a five-point intersection, though some regard McLendon Avenue, extending east from Euclid's southern intersection at Moreland, as the new fifth point.

This station was the behind-the-scenes creation of American Top 40 broadcasting pioneer Gordon McLendon and Clint Murchison, owner of the Dallas Cowboys football team, both from Dallas, Texas.

Taking a clue from KIXL in Dallas, McLendon surprised everyone with the establishment of a Beautiful Music AM station named KABL ( a tribute to the famous San Francisco Cable Cars ) which became a successful legend in the city through the 1990s.

Leftwich was cut from the Steelers on September 18, 2010 in a temporary move to make room for defensive lineman Steve McLendon, who was signed due to an injury to Casey Hampton.

* 2000 McLendon ( M ) Ehealth refers to all forms of electronic healthcare delivered over the Internet, ranging from informational, educational and commercial " products " to direct services offered by professionals, non-professionals, businesses or consumers themselves.

Under McLendon ownership, KTSA once obtained Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) permission to change its call letters from KTSA to KAKI, reportedly to honor San Antonio's military personnel ( with " KAKI " meaning " khaki ", a type of fabric used in military uniforms ).

This lasted until Waterman Broadcasting bought the stations from McLendon in 1965 and signed off 101. 5 and started KTFM on 102. 7

The current calls WGCI came from then-owner Globetrotter Communications Inc., who purchased 107. 5 and sister station 1390-AM for $ 4. 5 million from Gordon McLendon on February 5, 1975 and made the stations urban contemporary and disco.

A three-time All-America player at Tennessee A & I ( now Tennessee State University ), Barnett led his team to three consecutive NAIA national championships for Hall of Fame Coach John McLendon.

Sponsor quotes John McLendon of the McLendon-Ebony station group as saying that the Southern Negro is becoming conscious of quality and `` does not wish to be associated with radio which is any way degrading to his race ; ;

* October 8 – John McLendon, American basketball coach ( b. 1915 )

* McLendon, Sally and John R. Johnson.

* Wilt Chamberlain is elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, along with coaches Sam Barry, Eddie Hickey, John McLendon, Ray Meyer and Pete Newell, and referee Jim Enright

In Cleveland, Steinbrenner's coach was the legendary John McLendon, who became the first African-American coach of a major pro basketball team.

* John B. McLendon was the league's first black coach.

Although fellow Kansas alum John McLendon actually invented the four corners offense, Smith is better known for utilizing it in games.

* John Franklin McLendon

He scored 1, 770 points playing for Hall of Fame coach John McLendon.

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Dennis W. Dickson ( Mayo Clinic ), Mark Cohen ( Case Western Reserve University ), Richard Prayson ( Cleveland Clinic ), Douglas C. Miller ( University of Missouri ; until recently at NYU ), John Trojanowski ( University of Pennsylvania ), Roger McLendon ( Duke University ) and John Donahue ( Brown University ).

McLendon entered his former place of employment, Reliable Metal Products on the northeastern side of Geneva, where he took his own life.

Stafford married radio pioneer Gordon McLendon in 1973, and was then briefly married to Dick Ebersol of NBC Sports and former producer of Saturday Night Live in the 1980s.

* Gordon McLendon, pioneer of American commercial broadcasting who attributed his beginnings in radio to Atlanta, Texas.

Picked by Billboard magazine to be the Standells ' next hit, the song was banned by Texas radio mogul Gordon McLendon who deemed the record to have sexually-suggestive lyrics.

She was a founder and director of the Survey of California Indian Languages, in this capacity she advised nearly fifty dissertations, including those of many linguists who would go on to be influential in the field, including William Bright ( Karok ), William Shipley ( Maidu ), Robert Oswalt ( Kashaya ), Karl Teeter ( Wiyot ), Margaret Langdon ( Diegueño ), Sally McLendon ( Eastern Pomo ), Victor Golla ( Hupa ), Marc Okrand ( Mutsun ), Kenneth Whistler ( Proto-Wintun ), William Jacobsen ( Washo ), and others.

Although Todd Storz is regarded as the father of the Top 100 format, Gordon McLendon of Dallas, Texas is regarded as the person who took an idea and turned it into a mass media marketing success in combination with the development in that same city of PAMS jingles.

Lightfoot McLendon is a classmate of Will ’ s who lives in the impoverished section of Cold Sassy known as Mill Town.

Radio programmer Gordon McLendon, who has been credited with pioneering top 40, all-sports, background music and telephone talk formats, is also an acknowledged pioneer in the all-news format.