Terri Hemmert Net Worth 2023, Salary, Age, Wife, Husband, Children, Family, Parents

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Introduction

Terri Hemmert is an American radio personality, musicologist, and instructor at Columbia College Chicago. She is a long-term presence at WXRT-FM in Chicago, Illinois where she became the first female drive-time host for a rock music station in the Chicago radio market. She is known as an expert on The Beatles and hosts the weekly Breakfast with the Beatles program and has been a featured speaker at many Beatles conventions worldwide.

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Early life

Name	Terri Hemmert
Net Worth	$3 million
Occupation	Radio personality
Age	74 years
Salary	$350,000+

Terri Hemmert net worth/Salary

Terri Hemmert was born on April 28, 1948 (age 74 years) in Piqua, Ohio, United States. As a child, she saw The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show and was inspired to set her sights on a career as a disc jockey as a potential way to meet her idols.

Hemmert maintained her interest in pop and rhythm and blues music through her childhood and enrolled at Elmhurst College where she wrote for campus publications and worked at the college radio station WRSE; she received a bachelor’s degree in Speech in 1970. After a stint as a late-night disc jockey at WCMF in Rochester, New York she returned to the Midwest.

Career

Terri Hemmert joined fledgling progressive rock station WXRT in Chicago as Public Affairs Director and overnight announcer in 1973. Her career and popularity grew along with that of the station and by 1981. She was the morning drive-time personality for the highly-rated station.

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Hemmert became the regular celebrity host for the Chicago-area Beatlefest beginning in 1979. Also in the late 1970s she began a long association with Columbia College, where she taught music history and radio classes.

She has been active in social and political causes and sits on the board of directors for The Peace Museum and Facets Multimedia. Hemmert was featured in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s “Rock and Radio” exhibit and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Chicago chapter of the Recording Academy.

Terri Hemmert has been known for her avid love of The Beatles. She also lists Roxy Music, Dusty Springfield, Patti Smith, and Marvin Gaye among her other favorite musicians. In celebration of her 40 years at WXRT, Mayor Rahm Emanuel made a surprise visit to WXRT studios to declare December 18, 2013 “Terri Hemmert Day” in the City of Chicago.

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Husband

Is Terri Hemmert married? Does Terri Hemmert have a wife? Much is known about her personal life. She hasn’t disclosed her wife or husband to the general public. However, Hemmert stands at an appealing height of 1.68m and has a good body weight which suits her personality.