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Aimee Semple McPherson with KFSG radio engineer Kenneth Ormiston, with whom she was rumored to have engaged in a scandalous affair.
Some of the earliest "talk radio" programs were sermons by Aimee Semple McPherson, the evangelist and "media sensation," broadcasting on her Four Square Gospel station, KFSG, in Los Angeles, in February 1924.
Another pioneer of radio evangelism, S. Parkes Cadman, preceded McPherson by a few months.