Cover of the book <i>Sam 'n' Henry</i> which was published by Shrewsbury Publishing for the Chicago Tribune. The newspaper owned (and still owns) radio station WGN.  <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_%27n%27_Henry" class="extiw" title="en:Sam 'n' Henry">en:Sam 'n' Henry</a></i> was a radio program heard on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGN_(AM)" class="extiw" title="en:WGN (AM)">en:WGN (AM)</a> in the 1920s created by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_Gosden" class="extiw" title="en:Freeman Gosden">en:Freeman Gosden</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Correll" class="extiw" title="en:Charles Correll">en:Charles Correll</a>.  The comedy duo wanted the rights to syndicate this radio show, but WGN refused to allow it.  Gosden and Correll re-worked some aspects of their show and characters, because WGN owned the rights to the name <i>Sam 'n' Henry</i>, Gosden and Correll re-named their characters <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_%27n%27_Andy" class="extiw" title="en:Amos 'n' Andy">en:Amos 'n' Andy</a></i> and signed with radio station <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMAQ_(AM)" class="extiw" title="en:WMAQ (AM)">en:WMAQ (AM)</a>, where they were allowed syndication rights.
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