SHOCK SHOW

DONALD (DON) KENNEDY

"Shock Show" was a hosted horror movie show with Don Kennedy as host from around 1957, with Joanne Good taking over as host "Sateena" from 2 January 1958 until 18 December 1958. The show screened horror and science fiction movies on Fridays at 11:15pm, on WSB-TV Channel 2, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. It is not known if Don had a host name & character. DONALD J. KENNEDY From IMDB: Don Kennedy was born on 2 March 1930 in Beaver, Pennsylvania, USA and passed away on 29 June 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He began his radio career in 1943 with a half-watt homemade radio station in the basement of his mother and father's home. His first paying position was in 1947 as an announcer at WPIC in Sharon, Pennsylvania. While in college, he announced news, sports scores and did music programs at WBVP in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. After military service as a radio studio manager in a psychological warfare unit during the Korean War, he anchored the eleven o'clock news at WSB-TV in Atlanta, Georgia eventually being assigned as a children's show host at that station, a program amassing the largest audience of any such local program in the nation. In 1960 he established WKLS-FM in Atlanta, serving as president and general manager. He set up and served as president of Georgia Network and Florida Network, two of the pioneer state news networks in the nation. In 1976 his company returned Atlanta's channel 36, WATL-TV to the air. He was the recipient of the Silver Circle Award and two Emmys from the Atlanta Chapter of NATAS, the Pioneer Broadcaster and Georgia Broadcaster's Hall of Fame awards from the Georgia Association of Broadcasters and honorary membership in the Di Gamma Kappa Broadcast Fraternity at the University of Georgia. He has been president of the Georgia Chapter of Muscular Dystrophy, treasurer of the Atlanta Humane Society and board member of the Atlanta Cancer Society. In recent years, Kennedy was the network coordinator for the Atlanta Braves radio network, the Georgia Tech Football and Basketball networks. He syndicated a now defunct weekly "Big Band Jump" radio program. At one time "Big Band Jump" was heard on one hundred stations in thirty-two states, Canada, and the United Kingdom. He was the voice of several cartoon characters on cable's Cartoon Network and narrator for award winning documentaries seen on the nine television stations of Georgia Public Television; and was a regular volunteer reader for the Georgia Radio Reading Service for the Blind.

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Internet Movie Data Base "Shock Show"	Wikipedia "Don Kennedy"	Internet Movie Data Base "Don Kennedy"
DreamWidth "Don Kennedy"	E-gor's Chamber of TV Horror Hosts "Don Kennedy"	The Georgia Radio Museum and Hall of Fame "Don Kennedy"

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