WXRT & Terri Hemmert Mark 50 Years
Hemmert graduated from Elmhurst College (now Elmhurst University) in Elmhurst, IL with a Bachelor’s in speech. It was there that her broadcasting career began at the school’s non-commercial radio station, WRSE-FM/Elmhurst. Her professional experience started in 1970 at WGLD-FM/Oak Park. In 1972, she joined WCMF/Rochester, NY before returning briefly to WGLD in 1973, which leads into her WXRT debut on November 3, 1973 … and the rest, as they say, is history. In 1981, Terri Hemmert became the first woman to host morning drive in Chicago (below) — current XRT morning host Marty Lennartz was her producer.
And on Sunday, November 5, Breakfast With The Beatles, which Terri has produced and hosted since its debut in 2002 featured the just-released “last Beatles song,” “Now And Then.” It was Hemmert’s love of the Fab Four that helped propel her into a radio career, as she recalls, “I saw a picture in a teen magazine of Cleveland disc jockey Jim Stagg interviewing Ringo Starr on The Beatles’ 1965 tour. I thought if I became a DJ I could meet The Beatles. Being surrounded by music I love and colleagues who are family while calling Chicago home — that’s why I stuck around for 50 years.”
For more details about Terri Hemmert’s remarkable career, please visit desotostate.prezly.com. [Special thanks to Ryan Arnold!