George D. Hay

George Dewey Hay ( born November 9, 1895 in Attica, Indiana, USA, † May 8, 1968 ) was an American radio host and founder of the popular radio show Grand Ole Opry.

George D. Hay began as a newspaper reporter for the Memphis Commercial Appeal. 1923 earned his publishing a radio station and Hay got the chance to moderate his own show. He was so successful that a year later, the Chicago station WSL hiring away him. There he worked at the National Barn Dance, with show, was played in the predominantly rural music.

On October 5, 1925, the Insurance Company National Life & Accident Insurance Company began owned radio station WSM in Nashville with their broadcasting. A month later Hay rose there as a program director. The birth of the Barn Dance show, the precursor of the Grand Ole Opry, suggested on 28 November of the same year with the 77 years old fiddler " Uncle " Jimmy Thompson as the first artist. From then on, the show was broadcast every Saturday night and quickly became a big success. 1927, the show was renamed Grand Ole Opry. It became the longest-lasting and most successful show in the history of the U.S. radio.

Hay in charge of the Grand Ole Opry until the late 1940s. Then he moved a magazine. In 1966 he was admitted for his services to the country music into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Two years later he died at the age of 72 years.

• Radio presenter
• Americans
• Born in 1895
• Died in 1968
• Man