George D. Hay

George Dewey Hay was an American radio announcer and journalist who lived from 9 November 1895 to 8 May 1968. He was the founder of the original radio series Grand Ole Opry on the station WSM-AM in Nashville, Tennessee, from which the country music stage show of the same name developed. His radio programme became one of the best known long-running broadcasts in American entertainment history. The facts recorded here come from the English Wikipedia article on this person, who is named as a creator in the infobox of at least one work listed in this atlas.