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    • Dec 31, 1972
    Austin radio station KOKE-FM adopts a progessive country format, becoming a force in the subsequent outlaw movement
    Mar 1, 1973
    Former Sun Records owner Sam Phillips takes over radio station WQLT in Florence, Alabama. Twenty-one years later, the road that runs by the studio will be renamed Sam Phillips Street
    Apr 18, 1973
    WHN becomes New York's only country radio station
    Oct 19, 1973
    Academy of Country Music awards producer Dick Clark makes a guest appearance on CBS' "The Odd Couple," as a disc jockey on fictitious radio station WZAZ
    Dec 5, 1975
    "Convoy" creator C.W. McCall and "The White Knight"'s Cledus Maggard meet at a promotion for an Atlanta radio station. They speak via C.B. radios on their way into the city, then sign autographs for listeners
    Apr 30, 1976
    Buck Owens buys a radio station in Bakersfield, to get a new frequency for KUZZ
    Jun 12, 1976
    Ernest Tubb's radio show "The Midnite Jamboree" moves to the second Ernest Tubb Record Shop, on Demonbreun Street in Nashville
    Jun 25, 1976
    Wichita radio station KBUL names country music's "Ugliest Men." Winners of the dubious honor include Buck Owens, Don Williams, Red Sovine and David Allan Coe
    Mar 13, 1977
    The Los Angeles Times reports Gene Autry and his Golden West Broadcasters have purchased Detroit radio station WCAR
    Jan 27, 1979
    In the midst of filming "Coal Miner's Daughter," Sissy Spacek appears with Loretta Lynn on Ernest Tubb's "Midnite Jamboree" radio show. Tubb asks the actress if Spacek is a "Polack name"



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