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BERNIE HAYES

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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