Cleveland of Alan Freed − the Cleveland disc jockey credited with first using and popularizing the term "rock and roll" to describe the music genre. News/talk station WHK was one of the first radio stations to broadcast in the United States and the first in Ohio; its former sister station, rock station WMMS, dominated Cleveland radio in the 1970s and 1980s and was at that time one of the highest rated radio stations in the country. In 1972, WMMS program director Billy Bass coined the phrase "The Rock and Roll Capital of the World" to describe Cleveland. In 1987, "Playboy" named
TV Disc Jockey is not known if any of the live episodes were recorded, and the series is possibly lost ("Hit Parade", a Seven Network series which started 1957 in which hit recordings were danced to and lip-synced by the cast, does have preserved episodes, as do later 1950s variety series like "The Bobby Limb Show" (1959-1961) which featured live music). TV Disc Jockey TV Disc Jockey was an early Australian television music program which is notable as it later evolved to become the Australian version of "Bandstand". It aired on the Nine Network's TCN-9 from 1957 to 1958. The series originally consisted