Facts: - death place: brookline , massachusetts - known for: radio pioneer , founder of the yankee network - death date: 11 may 1950 - birth date: 19 march 1886 - name: john shepherd iii - parents: john shepard jr. and flora martin shepard - birth place: boston , massachusetts - occupation: retail store owner , radio station executive Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of john shepard iii .
john shepard iii -lrb- 18861950 -rrb- was an american radio executive and merchant .among his many achievements , he was one of the original board members of the national association of broadcasters , having been elected the group 's first vice president in 1923 .shepard co-founded a new england radio network , known as the yankee network , along with his brother robert , in 1929-1930 .shepard was also an early proponent of frequency modulation or fm broadcasting : he established the first fm network , when he linked his station in massachusetts with one in new hampshire in early 1941 .he also was an early experimenter with home shopping , creating perhaps the first all-female radio station , wasn , in early 1927 ; the station broadcast some music , but mostly focused on shopping news and information about merchandise that listeners could purchase .additionally , he created a local news network to serve new england , the yankee news service , and was instrumental in getting radio journalists the same credentials as print journalists .