Floyd Brown, a longtime Elgin resident who broke color barriers by being one of the first Blacks hired by a national radio network and best known for more than 28 years with WGN TV and radio, died Friday at the age of 92.
Floyd Brown, seen here in 2016 speaking with WGN radio personality Orion Samuelson at the WGN Radio Walk of Fame member induction ceremony, died in Elgin Friday at the age of 92.
Over the course of Brown’s 50-plus-years career, he worked as an engineer, program manager, newscaster, sportscaster and associate news editor and hosted several radio and television shows, including a jazz program, “The Floyd Brown Show” that aired on Sunday nights on WGN radio.He started out in Texas, where he was born in 1930, and later moved with his family to Washington, D.C., according to.
He would work at WMAQ radio from 1965 to 1970 before moving to WGN radio and television, where he remained from 1971 until his retirement in 1999. He also had a show on WTTW-TV called “30 Good Minutes” in the 1980s. In 2016, he was inducted into the radio station’s Walk of Fame in 2016 and was a member of the Fox Valley Arts Hall of Fame.Floyd Brown broke color barriers over the course of his 50-plus-years career, which included working at radio and television stations in Elgin and Chicago.
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