1950s? group KDKA image The prettier postcard style image below lacks a list of names but the Pittsburgh Press published every name. I...

No, not the Singing Brakeman, that's Jimmie Rodgers. This is the lesser known Whistling Brakeman, George E. Nearpass III. Sources altern...

I have written often about the beginnings of black radio: the first appearances of African Americans in broadcasts that also demographica...

Half a century ago it was also the brand name of a coin-operated hotel radio.  Today Tradio  is a portmanteau of "trade" and ...

At the height of his radio career, Dave Garroway hosted a late-night jazz program on WMAQ-AM in Chicago. It was one of the most important...

At long last this research project has come to an end. I have asked the question repeatedly why these people are famous within radio and the...

The National Farm and Home Hour was a variety show which began broadcasting on NBC Blue Network in 1929. The show was broadcast at noon live...

Will Rogers first appeared on the radio in February of 1922 at KDKA-AM in Pittsburgh, PA. He was accompanied by the Ziegfeld Girls, from Zie...

KDKA-AM is almost always credited as the first radio station in America. Despite the meager veracity of the claim it's become the accep...

It was 8XS in Saxonburg that transmitted the first international broadcast, to Europe via England, on New Year's Eve in 1923. 86 year...

In the U.S. we didn't license any radio stations until KDKA in 1920. But that was by no means the birth of radio. Even that single sta...

Today FM enjoys a huge dominance over AM radio. In every market the number of FM stations both outnumbers the AM stations and overall carry...

I'll set this straight now and state for the record that I think this is asinine , and somewhat mean to the rodent. Strangely, like an ...

 No, not my Adventures in Research. Most of my research is kind of erratic and highly partisan. I refer to Westinghouse's radio series ...

I didn't do the research on this, but I did check their list twice. I also re-sorted it into chronological order. This is a list of the ...

Interference is a constant in the universe. It varies in quality and quantity but there is always some. It's ever-present, and is just p...

We all heard George W. Bush say the word "Internets" on the national news. It was not an impressive moment, but my dad's not s...