Edwin F. Goldman 1929 The Pure Oil Program is a bit obscure but it actually hosted Al Jolson's first radio appearance in 1929. So who wa...

Chickenman was an American radio series created by Dick Orkin. It spoofed adventure books and comic book heroes. The series was created i...

Howard Specs enjoyed a 22-year career on Cleveland radio, and later Detroit, as one-half of the duo "Martin & Howard" through...

Halloween Martin was, by most definitions, the first female disk jockey, and quite almost certainly the first in the Chicago metro. She wa...

This is a picture of a nice old Philco I saw at a yard sale. What's interesting about old radio dial presets is that you can use them...

The story starts with the Coon-Sanders Original Kansas City Nighthawks.  The orchestra began broadcasting in 1922 on WDAF-AM . At the time t...

 That this show ever existed at all is baffling, that it ran for 30 years is even more unusual, that there were others just like it is inexp...

78 rpm records of the 1920s usually had a brief description of the sides contents: waltz, foxtrot, humorous dialogue, march  etc.  This par...

No one that listened to Jean "Shep" Sheppard will ever forget him. His career spanned decades and included tours on WOR-AM, KYW-AM...

In the 1800s broadcasters adopted call signs to aid in signaling. This practice continued when ships began to use radio. [popularized by th...