Nine-O-One Network Magazine
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Nine-O-One Network Magazine was a bi-monthly music magazine
Music magazine
A music magazine is a magazine dedicated to music and music culture. Such magazines typically include music news, interviews, photo shoots, essays, record reviews, concert reviews and occasionally have a covermount with recorded music.-Notable music magazines:...

 published in Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers....

, from 1986 to 1989.

Beginnings

The magazine originated during the heralded 1986 “Class of '55
Class of '55
Class of '55 is a 1986 album by Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison and Carl Perkins.While the album was in part a tribute to Elvis Presley, it was mainly a commemoration of those young performing hopefuls, the four album participants included, who came to Sun Records in 1955 to make music in...

” recording session in Memphis with Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...

, Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis is an American rock and roll and country music singer-songwriter and pianist. An early pioneer of rock and roll music, Lewis's career faltered after he married his young cousin, and he afterwards made a career extension to country and western music. He is known by the nickname 'The...

, Roy Orbison
Roy Orbison
Roy Kelton Orbison was an American singer-songwriter, well known for his distinctive, powerful voice, complex compositions, and dark emotional ballads. Orbison grew up in Texas and began singing in a rockabilly/country & western band in high school until he was signed by Sun Records in Memphis...

, and Carl Perkins
Carl Perkins
Carl Lee Perkins was an American rockabilly musician who recorded most notably at Sun Records Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, beginning during 1954...

. Producer Chips Moman
Chips Moman
Lincoln Wayne "Chips" Moman is an American record producer, guitarist, and songwriter. As a record producer, Moman is known for recording Elvis Presley, Bobby Womack, Carla Thomas, and Merrilee Rush, as well as guiding the career of the Box Tops in Memphis, Tennessee during the 1960s...

 asked James L. Dickerson, a reporter with The Commercial Appeal
The Commercial Appeal
The Commercial Appeal is the predominant daily newspaper of Memphis, Tennessee, and its surrounding metropolitan area. It is owned by The E. W. Scripps Company, a major North American media company. Scripps also owned the former afternoon paper, the Memphis Press-Scimitar, which it folded in...

 in Memphis, if he would create a magazine that could be used as part of a sales package for a telemarketing
Telemarketing
Telemarketing is a method of direct marketing in which a salesperson solicits prospective customers to buy products or services, either over the phone or through a subsequent face to face or Web conferencing appointment scheduled during the call.Telemarketing can also include recorded sales pitches...

 campaign for the album. Dickerson agreed to do it without fee if Moman would allow him to name the magazine, copyright it, and use it to launch a bi-monthly music magazine. Moman agreed, and the magazine was named Nine-O-One Network, the name derived from Memphis’s telephone area code, 901. Dickerson resigned from The Commercial Appeal to publish the magazine so that he would not have a conflict of interest
Conflict of interest
A conflict of interest occurs when an individual or organization is involved in multiple interests, one of which could possibly corrupt the motivation for an act in the other....

. The first subscription check to arrive in the mail came from Johnny Cash. Soon afterward a subscription check arrived from Jerry Lee Lewis.

By the end of the first year, the full-color, slick paper magazine had newsstand circulation in fourteen states. By the end of 1987 it was sold on newsstands in all 50 states and throughout Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

, and in selected cities in Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

, and the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

. The distributor was Capital Distribution Co. of Derby, CT
Derby, Connecticut
Derby is a city in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 12,391 at the 2000 census. With of land area, Derby is Connecticut's smallest municipality.The city has a Metro-North railroad station called Derby – Shelton.-History:...

. At its peak, the magazine had a circulation of 100,000 which made it the third largest music magazine in the U.S.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, behind Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...

 and Spin
Spin (magazine)
Spin is a music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione Jr.-History:In its early years, the magazine was noted for its broad music coverage with an emphasis on college-oriented rock music and on the ongoing emergence of hip-hop. The magazine was eclectic and bold, if sometimes haphazard...

.

Initially, the magazine was financed by Dickerson, who used his savings and cashed in his life insurance
Life insurance
Life insurance is a contract between an insurance policy holder and an insurer, where the insurer promises to pay a designated beneficiary a sum of money upon the death of the insured person. Depending on the contract, other events such as terminal illness or critical illness may also trigger...

 policy to live on and pay start-up costs. The magazine was incorporated in the State of Tennessee and preferred
Preferred stock
Preferred stock, also called preferred shares, preference shares, or simply preferreds, is a special equity security that has properties of both an equity and a debt instrument and is generally considered a hybrid instrument...

 common stock
Common stock
Common stock is a form of corporate equity ownership, a type of security. It is called "common" to distinguish it from preferred stock. In the event of bankruptcy, common stock investors receive their funds after preferred stock holders, bondholders, creditors, etc...

 was offered, all of it purchased by 25 Mississippi
Mississippi
Mississippi is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States. Jackson is the state capital and largest city. The name of the state derives from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, whose name comes from the Ojibwe word misi-ziibi...

 and Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...

 investors.

The first issue featured a photo of Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, and Jerry Lee Lewis. The second issue featured Rolling Stone Ron Wood
Ron Wood
Ronald David "Ronnie" Wood is an English rock guitarist and bassist best known as a former member of The Jeff Beck Group, Faces, and current member of The Rolling Stones. He also plays lap and pedal steel guitar....

 as the cover story, with inside articles about Belinda Carlisle
Belinda Carlisle
Belinda Jo Carlisle is an American singer who gained worldwide fame as the lead vocalist of the Go-Go's, one of the most successful all-female bands and the first such group whose members wrote their own songs and played their own instruments...

, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Steve Warner, and Sweethearts of the Rodeo
Sweethearts of the Rodeo
Sweethearts of the Rodeo is an American country music duo composed of sisters Janis Oliver and Kristine Oliver . The duo recorded for Columbia Records between 1986 and 1991, releasing four albums and twelve singles for the label. In the 1990s, they also recorded two albums for Sugar Hill Records...

. The eclectic mix reflected the magazine’s philosophy that a true American music magazine should contain articles about all the major forms of native music—rock 'n' roll, country
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

, blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

, and jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

.

Magazine Highlights

• The first magazine published in the South to obtain nationwide newsstand circulation

• The first music magazine to do feature articles on sexual harassment
Sexual harassment
Sexual harassment, is intimidation, bullying or coercion of a sexual nature, or the unwelcome or inappropriate promise of rewards in exchange for sexual favors. In some contexts or circumstances, sexual harassment is illegal. It includes a range of behavior from seemingly mild transgressions and...

 in the music industry

• The first music magazine to routinely publish glossy, full-color photographs of country artists

Covers

Issue 1 – Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins

Issue 2 –Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones

Issue 3 – Deborah Allen
Deborah Allen
Deborah Allen is an American country music singer. Since 1976, Allen has issued 12 albums and charted 14 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, most notably the 1983 crossover hit "Baby I Lied" which reached #4 on the country charts and #26 on the Billboard Hot 100. Allen has also...



Issue 4 - Aimee Mann
Aimee Mann
Aimee Mann is an American rock singer-songwriter, guitarist and bassist.-Early life:Aimee Mann grew up in Bon Air, Virginia, graduated from Open High School in 1978 and attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, but dropped out to sing with her first punk rock band, the Young Snakes...



Issue 5 – Robert Cray
Robert Cray
Robert Cray is an American blues guitarist and singer. A five-time Grammy Award winner, he has led his own band, as well as an acclaimed solo career.-Career:...



Issue 6 – Gregg Allman
Gregg Allman
Gregory Lenoir Allman , known as Gregg Allman, is a rock and blues singer, keyboardist, guitarist and songwriter, and a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band. He was inducted with the band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Georgia...



Issue 7 – Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....



Issue 8 - David Bowie
David Bowie
David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...

, Ringo Starr
Ringo Starr
Richard Starkey, MBE better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for The Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He became The Beatles' drummer in...



Issue 9 – The Bangles
The Bangles
The Bangles are an American all-female band that originated in the early 1980s, scoring several hit singles during the decade.-Formation and early years :...

, B.B. King

Issue 10 – Ann
Ann Wilson
Ann Dustin Wilson is an American musician, best known as the lead singer, flute player, songwriter, and occasional guitar player of the rock band Heart.-Personal life:...

 and Nancy Wilson of Heart
Heart (band)
Heart is an American rock band who first found success in Canada. Throughout several lineup changes, the only two members remaining constant are sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson. The group rose to fame in the 1970s with their music being influenced by hard rock as well as folk music...

, Waylon Jennings
Waylon Jennings
Waylon Arnold Jennings was an American country music singer, songwriter, and musician. Jennings began playing at eight. He began performing at twelve, on KVOW radio. Jennings formed a band The Texas Longhorns. Jennings worked as a D.J on KVOW, KDAV and KLLL...



Issue 11 - Dan Fogelberg
Dan Fogelberg
Daniel Grayling "Dan" Fogelberg was an American singer-songwriter, composer, and multi-instrumentalist, whose music was inspired by sources as diverse as folk, pop, rock, classical, jazz, and bluegrass music...

, Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson
Willie Hugh Nelson is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie , combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger and Stardust , made Nelson one of the most recognized...

, Yes
Yes (band)
Yes are an English rock band who achieved worldwide success with their progressive, art, and symphonic style of rock music. Regarded as one of the pioneers of the progressive genre, Yes are known for their lengthy songs, mystical lyrics, elaborate album art, and live stage sets...


Contents

Issue 2 Sept./Oct. 1986

Cover story on Rolling Stone Ron Wood written by James L. Dickerson

Interview feature on Belinda Carlisle
Belinda Carlisle
Belinda Jo Carlisle is an American singer who gained worldwide fame as the lead vocalist of the Go-Go's, one of the most successful all-female bands and the first such group whose members wrote their own songs and played their own instruments...

 and Charlotte Caffey of the Go-Go's written by James L. Dickerson

Interview feature on the Fabulous Thunderbirds written by James L. Dickerson

Interview feature on Steve Wariner written by Bill Stuart (Brown Burnett)

Interview with Sweethearts of the Rodeo written by Robert Jenkins (James L. Dickerson)

Interview feature on Rob Jungklas written by Dawn Baldwin

Interview feature on the making of Carl Perkins' video for "Birth of Rock 'n' Roll" written by James L. Dickerson

Issue 3 Nov./Dec. 1986
Cover story on Deborah Allen
Deborah Allen
Deborah Allen is an American country music singer. Since 1976, Allen has issued 12 albums and charted 14 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, most notably the 1983 crossover hit "Baby I Lied" which reached #4 on the country charts and #26 on the Billboard Hot 100. Allen has also...

 written by James L. Dickerson

Q&A with EMI music executives Michael Barackman and Dick Williams

Interview feature on the Main Attraction written by Dawn Baldwin

Interview feature on Bobby Womack written by James L. Dickerson

Interview feature on Marty Stuart
Marty Stuart
John Martin "Marty" Stuart is an American country music singer-songwriter, known for both his traditional style, and eclectic merging of rockabilly, honky tonk, and traditional country music...

 written by Robert Jenkins (James L. Dickerson)

Interview feature with guitarist Lonnie Mack written by Angela Fox (Brown Burnett)

Interview Feature with Lacy J. Dalton written by James L. Dickerson

Issue 4 January/February 1987

Cover story on 'Til Tuesday's Aimee Mann
Aimee Mann
Aimee Mann is an American rock singer-songwriter, guitarist and bassist.-Early life:Aimee Mann grew up in Bon Air, Virginia, graduated from Open High School in 1978 and attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, but dropped out to sing with her first punk rock band, the Young Snakes...

 written by Dawn Baldwin

Q&A interview with CBS Records/Nashville chief Rick Blackburn

Interview feature on T. Graham Brown
T. Graham Brown
Anthony "T." Graham Brown is an American country music artist. Active since 1986, Brown has recorded a total of thirteen studio albums, and has charted more than twenty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts...

 written by Dawn Baldwin

Interview feature on Jim Weatherly written by James L. Dickerson

Interview feature on Jason and the Scorchers written by Dawn Baldwin

"The Next Memphis Thing" written by James L. Dickerson, a feature on the women of Memphis music: Klaudia Kroboth, Pam Childs-Davis, Susanne Jerome Taylor, Reba Russell, Vicki Tucker, and Ella Brooks

Interview feature on Journey
Journey (band)
Journey is an American rock band formed in 1973 in San Francisco by former members of Santana. The band has gone through several phases; its strongest commercial success occurred between the 1978 and 1987, after which it temporarily disbanded...

 written by Dawn Baldwin

Interview feature on Rodney Crowell
Rodney Crowell
Rodney Crowell is a Grammy Award-winning musician, known primarily for his work as a singer and songwriter in country music....

 written by James L. Dickerson

Issue 5 March/April 1987

Cover story on Robert Cray
Robert Cray
Robert Cray is an American blues guitarist and singer. A five-time Grammy Award winner, he has led his own band, as well as an acclaimed solo career.-Career:...

 written by James L. Dickerson

Q&A interview with Gregg Geller, vice president of RCA Records' international A&R division

Feature on Trader Jon's (Part 1), Pensacola nightclub written by James L. Dickerson

Interview feature on country artists The O'Kanes written by James L. Dickerson

Interview feature on heavy metal group Europe written by Luann Williams

Interview feature on the hard-rock band Cinderella
Cinderella
"Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper" is a folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant reward. Thousands of variants are known throughout the world. The title character is a young woman living in unfortunate circumstances that are suddenly changed to remarkable fortune...

 by Robert Thomas (James L. Dickerson)

Interview feature on The Shooters, a Muscle Shoals recording group written by Dawn Baldwin

Issue 6 May/June 1987

Cover story on Gregg Allman
Gregg Allman
Gregory Lenoir Allman , known as Gregg Allman, is a rock and blues singer, keyboardist, guitarist and songwriter, and a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band. He was inducted with the band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Georgia...

 written by James L. Dickerson

Feature on Trader Jon's (Part 2), a Pensacola nightclub famous for being the unofficial cradle of American naval aviation written by James L. Dickerson

Q&A interview with Mose Allison

Interview feature with Asleep at the Wheel
Asleep at the Wheel
Asleep at the Wheel is a American country music group that was formed in Paw Paw, West Virginia, but based in Austin, Texas. Altogether, they have won nine Grammy Awards since their 1970 inception. In their career, they have released more than twenty studio albums, and have charted more than twenty...

 written by Nancy Oates

Interview feature on the Fabulous Thunderbirds' Memphis album written by James L. Dickerson

Interview feature on country artist Ricky Van Shelton written by Nancy Oates

"Radio Women of the South" written by James L. Dickerson

Issue 7 July/August 1987

Cover story on Elvis Presley, 10 years after his death written by Nancy Randall

Q&A interview with MTV founder Robert Pittman

"The Men Who Shot Elvis" by Nancy Randall, about photographers Ernest Withers, Dave Darnell and Bill Speer

Interview feature on the Georgia Satellites
Georgia Satellites
The Georgia Satellites are a Southern rock band from Atlanta, Georgia, USA. They are best known for their 1986 top five hit single "Keep Your Hands to Yourself", and draw inspiration from Chuck Berry, Little Feat, and AC/DC, among others.- History :...

 by Robert Thomas (James L. Dickerson)

Interview feature on Cutting Crew written by James L. Dickerson

Interview feature on T. G. Sheppard written by Robert Thomas (James L. Dickerson)

Interview feature on Judy Rodman written by Nancy Randall

Interview feature on Jimmy Davis written my Nancy Randall

Interview feature on Omar & the Howlers
Omar & the Howlers
Omar & the Howlers is a Texas based electric blues and blues rock band, formed in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 1973 by the blues guitarist and singer Omar Kent Dykes. Three years later they moved to Austin, Texas. The band has regularly toured European countries.-Early years:Dykes grew up in McComb,...

 written by Bill Stuart (Brown Burnett)

Issue 8 October 1987

Cover story on David Bowie
David Bowie
David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...

 written by Carinthia West

"America's favorite Morning DJs" written by Nancy Randall

Interview feature on Rosanne Cash written by James L. Dickerson

Interview feature on Charlie Daniels
Charlie Daniels
Charles Edward "Charlie" Daniels is an American musician known for his contributions to country and southern rock music. He is known primarily for his number one country hit "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", and multiple other songs he has performed and written. Daniels has been active as a singer...

 written by Nancy Randall

Interview feature on David Sanborn written by James L. Dickerson

Feature on Ringo Starr written by James L. Dickerson

"Where Are They Now?" written by Nancy Randall, a look at the Box Tops, the Gentrys, the Kingsmen and the Mar-Keys

Interview feature on Stevie Ray Vaughan
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Stephen Ray "Stevie Ray" Vaughan was an American electric blues guitarist and singer. He was the younger brother of Jimmie Vaughan and frontman for Double Trouble, a band that included bassist Tommy Shannon and drummer Chris Layton. Born in Dallas, Vaughan moved to Austin at the age of 17 and...

 written by Bill Stuart (Brown Burnett)

Interview feature on Jennifer Rush written by James L. Dickerson

Interview feature on Survivor's Jimi Jamison written by Nancy Randall, with a photo by James L. Dickerson

Issue 9 December 1987
Cover story feature on the Bangles written and photographed by James L. Dickerson

Feature on Don Nix's photographs of George Harrison, Joe Cocker, Albert King, and Furry Lewis written by James L. Dickerson

Interview feature on B. B. King written by James L. Dickerson

Q&A Interview with Chet Atkins
Chet Atkins
Chester Burton Atkins , known as Chet Atkins, was an American guitarist and record producer who, along with Owen Bradley, created the smoother country music style known as the Nashville sound, which expanded country's appeal to adult pop music fans as well.Atkins's picking style, inspired by Merle...



Feature on the importance of hair in the music business by Nancy Randall

Feature interview on country artists Exile
Exile
Exile means to be away from one's home , while either being explicitly refused permission to return and/or being threatened with imprisonment or death upon return...

 written by Nancy Randall

Feature interview on ex-Blaster Dave Alvin written by Nancy Randall

Issue10 February 1988

Cover story on Heart
Heart (band)
Heart is an American rock band who first found success in Canada. Throughout several lineup changes, the only two members remaining constant are sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson. The group rose to fame in the 1970s with their music being influenced by hard rock as well as folk music...

 written by James L. Dickerson

Feature on Sexual Harassment in the Music Industry written my Nancy Randall

Interview with RCA Records/Nashville chief Joe Galante

Profile on Otis Redding
Otis Redding
Otis Ray Redding, Jr. was an American soul singer-songwriter, record producer, arranger and talent scout. He is considered one of the major figures in soul and R&B...

 written by Bill Stuart (Brown Burnett)

Interview feature on Jackson Browne
Jackson Browne
Jackson Browne is an American singer-songwriter and musician who has sold over 17 million albums in the United States alone....

 written by Holly Gleason

Interview feature with Waylon Jennings
Waylon Jennings
Waylon Arnold Jennings was an American country music singer, songwriter, and musician. Jennings began playing at eight. He began performing at twelve, on KVOW radio. Jennings formed a band The Texas Longhorns. Jennings worked as a D.J on KVOW, KDAV and KLLL...

 written by Katy Bee

Interview feature on Nanci Griffith written by Nancy Randall

Issue 11 April 1988
Cover story on Dan Fogelberg written by James L. Dickerson

Interviews with Tanya Tucker, Kathy Mattea, Sweethearts of the Rodeo, and Willie Nelson by James L. Dickerson

Interview feature on Ry Cooder written by Holly Gleason

Interview feature on YES written by Holly Gleason

Interview feature with Kenny G written by Linda Enis

Interview feature with the Radiators

Interview feature with Guadalcanal Diary written by Michele Hargis

Review of Anson Funderburgh and the Rockets' album "Sins" reviewed by Winton Washington

Feature on Rick Nelson written by Bill Stuart (Brown Burnett)

Information for music scholars

Back issues of Nine-O-One Network Magazine are available at:

Memphis, Tennessee, Public Library

Benjamin Hooks Central Library http://www.memphislibrary.org/about/libraries/central.htm

Magazine Spin-off

In 1988, the magazine formed a spin-off company to produce a radio syndication called Pulsebeat—Voice of the Heartland. With James L. Dickerson as executive producer, the company produced two programs—a 30-minute, weekly country music program that was carried by about 60 radio station
Radio station
Radio broadcasting is a one-way wireless transmission over radio waves intended to reach a wide audience. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast or both...

s from coast to coast, and a 60-minute blues program that was produced in partnership with Helena, Arkansas, radio station KFFA-Am
KFFA (AM)
KFFA is an American radio station licensed by the FCC to serve the community of Helena, Arkansas. The station is owned by Delta Broadcasting, which is owned by Jamie and Nancy Howe, and Otis Howe, all of whom live in Helena.-Historical role:...

, which had broadcast since 1941 the universally acclaimed King Biscuit Time
King Biscuit Time
King Biscuit Time is the longest-running daily American radio broadcasts in history. The program is broadcast each weekday from KFFA in Helena, Arkansas, United States and has won the George Foster Peabody Award for broadcasting excellence and is currently broadcast from the KFFA studio located in...

 show. Both syndicated programs featured radio personality Kim Spangler. Veteran King Biscuit announcer "Sunshine" Sonny Payne
"Sunshine" Sonny Payne
For the Louisiana sheriff, see John William Payne."Sunshine" Sonny Payne is an American radio presenter, who has presented blues music as the host of the King Biscuit Time radio show on KFFA in Helena, Arkansas since 1951...

, KFFA general manager George Hays, and Memphis radio personality Henry Nelson also hosted segments on the blues show. The weekly blues show was broadcast by 40 stations from New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

 to the Yukon
Yukon
Yukon is the westernmost and smallest of Canada's three federal territories. It was named after the Yukon River. The word Yukon means "Great River" in Gwich’in....

. Featured guests included Stevie Ray Vaughan
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Stephen Ray "Stevie Ray" Vaughan was an American electric blues guitarist and singer. He was the younger brother of Jimmie Vaughan and frontman for Double Trouble, a band that included bassist Tommy Shannon and drummer Chris Layton. Born in Dallas, Vaughan moved to Austin at the age of 17 and...

, B.B. King, Bobby “Blue” Bland
Bobby Bland
Robert Calvin Bland better known as Bobby "Blue" Bland, is an American singer of blues and soul. He is an original member of the Beale Streeters, and is sometimes referred to as the "Lion of the Blues"...

, Melissa Etheridge
Melissa Etheridge
Melissa Lou Etheridge is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician.Etheridge is known for her mixture of confessional lyrics, pop-based folk-rock, and raspy, smoky vocals...

, and Little Milton
Little Milton
James Milton Campbell, Jr. , better known as Little Milton, was an American electric blues, rhythm and blues, and soul singer and guitarist, best known for his hit records "Grits Ain't Groceries" and "We're Gonna Make It."-Biography:Milton was born James Milton Campbell, Jr., in the Mississippi...

, to name a few. Pulsebeat—Voice of the Heartland ceased operations in 1990.
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