Claude Hall (September 4, 1932 – July 7, 2017) was an American journalist and a writer for and longtime radio-TV editor of Billboard.
He is perhaps best known for having coined the term "easy listening" in 1965 in describing the sound of WPIX-FM, a radio station then heard in metropolitan New York City.Hall is the author of the e-book "Radio Wars", which was published in 2012.
He was born in Brady, Texas and died in Las Vegas, Nevada.