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When we turned to audio media, my Grandmother described how the radio was central in her home growing up. Her mom would listen to the news first thing in the morning, while her dad always had the fights tuned in at night after work. Whether it  was the small radios in her siblings' rooms or the larg e one i n the kitchen, there was always a radio tuned into WHB. "I played it all day long, of course we had to work, but as much as I could. On the weekends especially. Then when I turned 16, I would listen to the radio in the car all night long. The Rolling Stones would play, Santana, The Who."  She remembered WHB playing every type of music fro m cou nty to pop music. The station would be cut off by Kansas City at nine at night, then she recalled having to make their own music. She would The only country Linda listened to was Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton Source:  https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/country /7873024/kenny-rogers-dolly-parton-final-performanc