Don Lee was a Cadillac dealer on the West Coast. He first purchased KHJ in Los Angeles, then went on to create a radio network on the West Coast dubbed The Don Lee Broadcasting System. The network was first affiliated with the Columbia Broadcasting System when it was created in 1927, but chafed under its requirements and the difficulty of time-delaying broadcasts from New York for the west coast. Don Lee switched affiliations in 1936 when be purchased part of the Mutual Broadcasting System and the west coast network became the Don Lee Mutual Broadcasting System.

Don Lee died in 1938, but his son Thomas S. Lee, continued the business until his death in 1948. Upon his death, Thomas S. Lee Enterprises d/b/a the Don Lee Broadcasting System was sold to General Tire & Rubber Company and joined The Yankee Network.

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