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Eddie
Hubbard
Host
Audio
Archive | Obituary
Career
Highlights:
Eddie Hubbard and Jack Brickhouse
Audio
Archive:
- Two examples
of The Eddie Hubbard Show from 1972. The program featured
current music as well as hits from a previous year. Both of these
segments include commercials and other elements.
- April
4, 1972, 3:30-4:00pm, featuring music from 1953. This
segment includes a business report by Ed Cooper, a WGN Continental
Broadcasting Company editorial read by Orion Samuelson, the
top of the hour tone, and the beginning of Jerry Tolbert filling
in on The Bill Berg Show. (29:30)
- May
19, 1972, 2:00-3:00pm, featuring music from 1967. This
segment includes a business report by Ed Cooper. (54:17)
Obituary
Eddie
Hubbard, a legendary name in Chicago radio history and a member
of the WGN Radio family, has died following a traffic accident in
Texas.
Eddie Hubbard's
broadcast career began in his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland, but
it was here in Chicago where Hubbard became a radio legend.
Hubbard came
to WGN in 1956, where he co-hosted a talk show with another radio
legend, Jack Brickhouse.
Hubbard was
the morning drive host here prior to Wally Phillips, and he also
hosted programs such as "Music Unlimited."
In 1962, Hubbard
helped WGN mark its 40th anniversary, hosting the station's commemorative
broadcast with Brickhouse and Pierre Andre.
Hubbard moved
on eventually to satellite radio in the 1980s, which took him from
Chicago to Texas. Since then, Hubbard hosted programs heard on radio
stations from coast to coast.
Hubbard and
his wife, Lill, were injured in an auto accident in their adopted
home of Grand Prairie, Texas on March 19th. Lill is recovering,
but Eddie Hubbard died from his injuries on Monday, March 26, 2007.
Eddie Hubbard
was 89.
Listen: WGN's
Jim Gudas looks back at the life and career of Eddie Hubbard
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