September 1948 was a pivotal moment in the career of Jack McElroy, and it didn't go well.  But let's start there at the peak, the AB...

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

Henry Gaylord Wilshire, known by his friends as Gaylord, was a quack. But he was a notable quack. In 1895 he began developing 35 acres of...

I read a short blurb, a sales pitch really, that claimed that Victory Belles was the first all female radio program in America.  It could...

Rev. Charles E. Fuller was a radio evangelist in every sense of the word. He hosted the Old Fashioned Revival Hour, a weekly Sunday broadc...

Marlon "Zeke" Clements was not a dwarf. He just played one on the big screen. In 1937 Clements yodeled the part of Bashful, in W...

Brittingham's Radio Center Restaurant was located at 6113 Sunset Boulevard. It was in CBS Columbia Square which at the time housed KNX...

I know all of two songs by Merle Travis but I bet you know them too. "Dark as a Dungeon" and "Sixteen Tons" were both...

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 ...

You know that trite saying "Kids Say the Darndest Things"? That was Art Linkletter's fault. One of the segments on his ...

Here's another really obscure gem. Marmola was a weight-loss pill that was charged with false advertising back in 1935. [ Source ] He ...

John Cage was an avant-garde composer among other things. He "wrote" compositions of pure silence, he played piano with debris pl...

Above, an artifact of a very different era: Colorpicture Ltd. of Boston made Plastichrome Postcards. I know nothing of post cards but wou...

There was a saying about optimism and pessimism. "The optimist sees the doughnut, the pessimist sees the hole". I was surprised ...

** Updated in 2025 Before we talk about radio I want to acknowledge that Bob Crane was not a entirely a good person. Some people might say ...

Reality TV has been an exploding genre since that pasty and trite "Real World" sham graces the cablevision universe with it's ...