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    • Oct 19, 1991
    Grant Turner dies in Nashville, just hours after announcing the evening's Grand Ole Opry show. He served as an announcer for the Opry for 47 years and, in 1981, became the first disc jockey added to the Country Music Hall of Fame
    Apr 18, 1992
    Aaron Tippin picks up his first #1 country single in Billboard: "There Ain't Nothin' Wrong With The Radio"
    Jun 10, 1992
    The Associated Press posts a story in which Travis Tritt criticizes Billy Ray Cyrus' first hit: "I don't think 'Achy Breaky Heart' makes much of a statement." Tritt repeats the charge on Nashville's WSIX Radio, creating controversy during Fan Fair
    Oct 24, 1992
    Reba McEntire appears in concert at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The show is simulcast on WYNY-FM and on the Jumbotron screen in Times Square
    Jun 28, 1994
    Kellie Pickler receives a radio from her father in North Carolina for her eighth birthday. Her dad observes the day in jail
    Sep 26, 1994
    A listener calls WKID in Vevay, Indiana, repeatedly, requesting Tim McGraw's "Don't Take The Girl." When the station fails to play the record, he enters the studio after WKID signs off and sets six separate fires
    Jan 1, 1995
    "The Midnite Jamboree," a Saturday radio show inaugurated by Ernest Tubb in 1947 as a post-script for the Grand Ole Opry, moves to the Texas Troubadour Theatre
    Jul 1, 1995
    Rock & roll disc jockey Wolfman Jack dies of a heart attack in Belvedere, North Carolina. A pioneering, scratchy-voiced broadcaster, he was included 15 years prior in the lyrics of Don Williams' country hit "Good Ole Boys Like Me"
    Aug 7, 1995
    WSIX-FM personality Chuck "Hoss" Burns becomes the first major country figure to publicly admit he has AIDS, sharing his story on the air and in The Tennessean. "This is my greatest challenge," he says, "to show my dirty underwear to everybody"
    Aug 15, 1995
    Eight days after air personality "Hoss" Burns publicly admitted he has AIDS, Nashville radio station WSIX-FM conducts a 12-hour on-air tribute. Among the country stars who take part in the broadcast are Garth Brooks, Reba McEntire, Marty Stuart, Kathy Mattea and Steve Wariner



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