Gordon Barton McLendon (June 8, 1921 – September 14, 1986[1]) was a radio broadcaster. Nicknamed "the Maverick of Radio", McLendon is widely credited for perfecting, during the 1950s and 1960s, the commercially successful Top 40 radio format created by Todd Storz.[2] He also developed offshore pirate radio broadcasting to both Scandinavia and the British Isles. In addition, he was active in circles of conservative business-political power in the 1960s until the time of his death.
^Texas State Historical Association, McClendon, Gordon Barton
^Jones, Jack (September 16, 1986). "Radio Pioneer McLendon, 65, Dies in Texas". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 3, 2015.
Gordon Barton McLendon (June 8, 1921 – September 14, 1986) was a radio broadcaster. Nicknamed "the Maverick of Radio", McLendon is widely credited for...
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a U.S. radio network of the late 1940s and early 1950s founded by GordonMcLendon, which mainly broadcast live recreations of Major League Baseball games...
England. The radio broadcasting vessel was owned, at that time, by GordonMcLendon and Clint Murchison of Dallas, Texas, and leased to a British company...
formed by Texas broadcasting and political interests that included GordonMcLendon and Clint Murchison Jr. On 31 May 1960 the hold of the MV Olga was...
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show in 1967. By most accounts, McLendon was handily defeated, but, by then, most radio stations had followed McLendon's lead and would not play the record...
President in 1980, re-elected in 1984, and was elected president in 1988. GordonMcLendon, radio broadcaster Ralph Yarborough, incumbent Senator since 1957 George...
were already there. McLendon established beautiful music AM station KABL (a tribute to the San Francisco cable cars, named by McLendon's executive assistant...
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Keystone Broadcasting System Liberty Broadcasting System (created by GordonMcLendon, father of Top-40 Radio; a subsidiary of the telecommunications company...
entirely of ads, went on the air in Los Angeles, after radio broadcaster GordonMcLendon came up with the idea for a service where listeners would pay for classified...
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