The Week WYNR "Played" WLS

Yvonne Daniels was definitely the first female DJ in Chicago and Evelyn Scott was likely the first female DJ in Los Angeles. Scott apparently began in 1948 but I don't know exactly when. In August of 1948, Mary Dee Dudley launched a 15-minute program on WHOD-860, a new station in Homestead/Pittsburgh. Her show eventually expanded to two hours. In 1956 the station became WAMO. (Yeah, Porky Chedwick!) The station is now Christian talk WAOB. In the good ol' American tradition of identifying everyone in terms of race and color, various obituaries and websites refer to Mary Dee Dudley as "first negro female DJ" or "first black female DJ" or "first African-American female DJ." But she could also be the first female DJ. The research goes on.

https://sites.google.com/site/pittsburghmusichistory/pittsburgh-music-story/radio/mary-dee-dudley

Yvonne Daniels may have been the first woman or the first African American woman to be a DJ at WLS, but Vivian Carter Bracken began her career at WGES 1390 and WJOB 1230 in 1948 according to this. Vivian was the "Vee" of Vee-Jay records, which she cofounded with her husband James "Jay" Bracken. Vee-Jay was the first large independent AA owned record label in the US.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Carter

So there were at least three female DJs in 1948. Which of the three was first? And were there female DJs prior to 1948? There has to be a radio historian somewhere who knows. Jim Hilliker? David Eduardo? Anyone?

Josephine White, co-owner of WCRW in Chicago, claimed to have been in first female dj in 1926.

From Wikipedia:
"Clinton White, a radio engineer, started the station in 1926... White and his wife, Josephine, worked at their station as a team, with both sharing the on-air duties. Josephine claimed to be the first female disk jockey"

WCRW was one of the three stations that for years shared 1240 in Chicago. I think Mrs. White owned the station until sometime in the 1970s.