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Tracy Bethea
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On Air Details
Stellar Award Winner and 2008 Trailblazer of the Year radio personality Tracy Bethea uplifts and inspires you in the mid-day from 12noon - 4pm on 95.7 Hallelujah FM. Enhance your workday with uplifting music also get food for thought with Positive Confessions. If it's happening in the gospel industry, check out Tracy and "The Gospel Truth In Gospel News....honey weekdays around 1:35pm. Tracy blesses the city of St. Louis weekday's from 10am - 3pm on 1600 Hallelujah AM, and was recently added as host of "Music of Inspiration" from 9a-2p on Sunday's in Greensboro North Carolina on 105.7 KISS-FM.
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Reach out to Tracy Bethea
Tracy would love to host your next event. Her calendar fills up quickly, contact her today via e-mail or office.
(request) (901) 535-9425
tracybethea@hallelujahfm.com
(office) (901) 259-6421
(fax) (901) 259-6449
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Tracy's Journey
Tracy Bethea began her illustrious radio career in 1987 in the newsroom of the legendary WDIA in Memphis. As she progressed in her career, she became the female voice of Gospel on WDIA and for 10 years was lovingly known by her audience as “The Young One”.
In the late 1990’s, Tracy was offered the chance of a lifetime, to help launch a 24 hour AM gospel station that featured a perfect blend of traditional and contemporary Gospel music. She served as the Chief Operator of AM 990 The Light and one of its top radio personalities.
Tracy’s success with the station was noted nationally and she was given the coveted Stellar Award Winner for Announcer of the Year. In 2002, she was a part of the Clear Channel launch of 95.7 Hallelujah FM in Memphis, where she serves as Assistant Program/Music Director and Midday Air Personality. In 2004, she was the recipient of the first ever Gospel Bridge Award Female Radio Personality of the Year for her contribution to radio in the Memphis market.
This radio veteran is a member of SAGMA as well as the Memphis Association of Black Journalist, and has furthered her media pursuits as producer of Olivision News and special guest Host for BAMM The TV Show and Video Praise. She is the instructor at the K.T. Whalum Jr. School of Public Speaking and has added syndication to her resume with her “Gospel Truth In Gospel News…Honey” radio segment in St. Louis, Jackson MS, Biloxi MS and Little Rock on other Hallelujah radio stations. Tracy also hosts a weekly mid-day show from 10a-3p on 1600 Hallelujah AM in St. Louis.
Tracy, who is married, and an active member of the New Olivet Baptist Church, under the leadership of Reverend Kenneth T. Whalum Jr., strives to bring excellence to the gospel industry by the adage, “To thine own self be true.” |
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Tracy's Pick Hit of the Month
September
With the start of her own record label DP Muzic Group, gospel legend and "Songbird of The South" Dottie Peoples makes another mark with a new foot stomping hand-clapping project entitled "Do It"! The single which is blazing radio across the country features the standard loving "trademark" growl from the gospel fashion DIVA! Add "Do It" to your gospel collection.
In stores September 9, 2008
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Rev. Jessie Jackson Hospitalized
Friday 09-05-2008 1:51pm CT
 Chicago, IL --The Reverend Jesse Jackson is being treated at a Chicago hospital after experiencing severe stomach pains.
Jackson tells The Associated Press that he is feeling much better after being at Northwestern Memorial Hospital overnight. He says that doctors have told him he has viral gastroenteritis but are conducting more tests.
Jackson says he was campaigning and doing voter registration in Georgia earlier in the week when he began to feel ill after apparently becoming dehydrated. Back in Illinois, he entered the hospital Wednesday.
The 66-year-old civil rights leader says he isn't sure when he'll be released.
Mary Mary Share "The Sound"
Friday 09-05-2008 1:48pm CT
 New York, NY -- Columbia Records is proud to announce the upcoming release of The Sound, the avidly awaited new studio album from the platinum-selling chart-topping award-winning R&B/gospel duo Mary Mary. The Sound will be available online and in stores on Tuesday, October 14.The Sound premieres 11 new Mary Mary performances including the album's recently released lead single, "Get Up," a pop-infused anthem of praise and empowerment. "That song embodies what the whole album is about," says Mary Mary's Erica Campbell. "It asks people, 'Why are you waiting? Why do you care what other people think?' It reminds us that your beginning can be whenever you want it to be." National Gospel Music Heritage Month
Wednesday 08-20-2008 1:29pm CT
 Atlanta, GA --The country’s first-ever National Gospel Music Heritage Month is now supported by an exclusive web site dedicated to all aspects of the September celebration of gospel music’s valuable long-standing contributions to American culture as www.gospelmusicheritage.com.
The web site will build toward September, adding content that will include: special web-exclusive performances, programming and videos; interviews with legendary artists who've been instrumental in keeping gospel heritage alive, current and up-and-coming artists discussing their musical influences; gospel facts, figures and historical nuggets and more. Throughout September, visitors will also find calendars of local gospel concerts and events happening in their area as well as web banners and other materials that can be used to spread information on Gospel Music Heritage Month.
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