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Halloween Joan Martin Kurtzeborn (October 31, 1900 – July 29, 1971) was an American broadcast announcer and radio disc jockey. She was one of the first radio disc jockeys in Chicago and an early innovator in what became known as morning radio. Active from 1929 to 1946 on her show the Musical Clock, Martin broadcast from three radio stations for almost two decades beginning with KYW, then WBBM, and finally WCFL where she retired from broadcasting. In the early 1930s, it was estimated that she had an audience of more than 1.5 million radio listeners. Historian Donna Halper credits Martin as the first woman to host her own morning radio show, with music scholar Maren Hancock calling Martin one of the first modern DJs.