Midwestern Hayride

Midwestern Hayride
Country of originUnited States
Original release
Network
Release1951 (1951) –
1959 (1959)
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Midwestern Hayride, sometimes known as Midwest Hayride and later Hayride, was an American country music show originating in the 1930s from radio station WLW and later from television station WLW-T in Cincinnati, Ohio. During the 1950s it was carried nationally by NBC and then ABC television.[1]

The program featured live country music (performed mainly by local musicians but on lesser occasions by national stars) and what was then called "hayseed" comedy, much of which was the inspiration for the later TV series Hee Haw. It is credited as the first country music program regularly broadcast by a national network.[2]

  1. ^ Hyatt, Wesley (1997). The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television. Watson-Guptill Publications. p. 288. ISBN 978-0823083152. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  2. ^ "Rising Costs Bring 'Hayride" To A Halt". Google Books. Billboard. November 10, 1956. p. 14. Retrieved 1 May 2015.