Foster Brooks died in 2001 at the age of 89. His talent has largely been forgotten as he spend the peak of his career type-cast into a role ...

Our story starts with two radio announcers born only a few years apart with similar names, both working as radio announcers on national netw...

Not every DJ is remembered, and even fewer in the cannon of legal precedent. The Real Don Steele played a role in a tragic case which led ...

This is part three of what will be a 5 part series wrapping this Friday. The Los Angeles Times has a series of biographies of every star on ...

It's almost unthinkable now. In 1950 WGN-AM just handed over night programming to Harold Kaye Mailorder service. The company was very r...

Today Winston "Wink" Martindale is remembered as the host of a number of cheesy TV game shows. He hosted a total of 12 different g...

Drake in Drake-Chenault is Bill Drake, the Chenault is Gene Chenault. The irony of my hatred for their version of radio is that it's a...

The FCC no longer grants 3 character call letters, or that's the general rule. It's supposed to be a firm rule, but like all things...

Not the Starkist mackerel on the can of Tunafish. I mean Charlie Tuna L.A. radio personality at KRTH . Art Ferguson first became Charlie ...

The peak RKO radio station lineup consisted of WOR-AM in New York, KHJ-AM in Los Angeles, KFRC-AM in San Francisco, WHBQ-AM in Memphis, ...