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BERNIE HAYES
BIOGRAPHY
Hayes is celebrating
55 years as a print and broadcast journalist, radio and
television announcer, columnist and recording artist and producer.
A native of Chicago where he worked at WVON, WGES, WMPP and WYNR,
he arrived in St Louis from Radio Station KSOL, San Francisco in
April 1965 as a DJ at Radio Station KATZ.
He held the number one rating as afternoon soul jock and midnight
jazz announcer, emanating from the Blue Note Club in East St.
Louis, Illinois.
Hayes has held executive positions at St. Louis radio stations
KATZ, KWK, KKSS, KIRL, WESL, KXLW and KADI.
He hosted the Soul Brotherhood and Black Circle
Hours television dance programs on Channel 30 and was an
announcer, Weathercaster and host of Dialing for Dollars
at KTVI-Channel 2 (ABC).
In 1979 he started the first Black radio talk show in the St.
Louis area on radio station KATZ. . Hayes also started the first
Black talk show on radio station WGNU in 1985.
In 1985 he took a position as a news reporter and producer for
WCBI-TV (CBS), in Columbus, Mississippi and returned to St. Louis
in 1986.
He has been inducted into the St. Louis Radio Hall of Fame; The
Greater St. Louis Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame;
The Black Radio Hall of Fame and the Wendell Phillips High School
Hall of Fame (Chicago).
He recently won the first place award for radio for the
documentary The History of Black Radio in St. Louis.
He has over 685 awards including eight in 2011 and nine in 2012.
He is the former News Director at KWMU-FM; the public
broadcasting station at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
Also he was Midwest Promotions Director for MCA and ABC Record
Companies.
Currently a media professor at Webster University, and a
columnist for the St. Louis American newspaper and a record
producer, host of the Bernie Hayes radio show on WGNU AM and The
Bernie Hayes Television Show on KNLC-TV Ch. 24.
He is the author of the book The Death of Black Radio,
a history of African Americans in the broadcast industry.
He recently starred in the Sean Hunt full length movie The
Swing Set.
He is married to Mrs. Uvee Hayes, a psychological examiner in the
St. Louis Public Schools and a recording artist.
He is also a former
recording artist for Stax/Volt, Four Brothers and Double-Soul
record labels.
VOLT DISCOGRAPHY
Singles
Volt 4032 : Tribute
To A Black Man Pt. I / Pt. II
Volt 4047 : Cool Strut Pt. I / Pt. II
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