Thirty-five years ago, the Pleasant Valley Gang played their final radio show on WIBW in Topeka. It was America’s last known live music radio show and marked the end of an era that once featured hundreds of musicians performing live on radio...or so it seemed, until the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, some Kansas musicians are reviving live music on the airwaves and on the internet. Barney McCoy told the story for Nebraska's NET News in Lincoln.
This report as produced by Barney McCoy, professor of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. This story comes to us from NET, Nebraska's PBS & NPR Stations, the statewide public media service.