In 1995, he became the first African-American inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame. Unbeknownst to WINX management, “bronze” was then the classy term for “negro” in Washington’s black community.) Alongside fellow WOOK DC Tex Gathings, Jackson co-hosted the first television show ever produced from The Howard Theatre” called “Marvin’s Howard Theatre Amateur Program.” In 1990, Hal Jackson was the first minority inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters’ Hall of Fame. His show was called “The Bronze Review,” which featured entertainment, interviews, and news. Follow in the footsteps of the 2006 film for an arresting tour of Venice and the Czech Republic and to lounge in the warmth of the Bahamas and Italy’s Lake Como. (Hal Jackson had broken through the color barrier in radio in the DC area in the 1930s, becoming the first black to host a show on WINX in Maryland after initially being told that no black person would ever be on its airwaves. During the 1950s, one of the clubs top attractions was DCs own Don Covay.
At WOOK, he spun “race records,” as songs by black artists were then known, during morning drive time on WOOK.
By the mid-1940’s, he hosted The House That Jack Built, a program of and on three DC/Maryland radio stations (WINX, WANN, and WOOK).
